Windows 10 is the official name for Windows 9

[Ed]

Lol, to distance themselves from 8, Microsoft is skipping 9 and going right to Windows 10:

http://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-co ... windows-10



[Moderator note: topic split from Windows 9 / Sept 30 thread]

[Embiggens]

So weird. Why not Windows 16?

[Ed]

So weird. Why not Windows 16?

Because that's too easily divisible by 8

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[STC]

^ Does MS expect me to trust a person with a haircut like that?

[Ed]

Belfiore has had crazy hair for the past 6 years or so , he's been with MS for a long time though

[Scallica]

Why did they hide the Dell logo behind the screen? They are business partners.

[STC]

The focus of the vid was MS DoozyWinTenYouBetcha not Dell

[mark1234]

Blah, blah. What about 10MC?

[STC]

^Well it has a mouse and a start button, and some little sparkly tile things but no MC (unconfirmed).

[Ed]

Blah, blah. What about 10MC?

[STC]

Why would we even assume it would be in the build?

It was an afterthought in 8.

[Ed]

Why would we even assume it would be in the build?

It was an afterthought in 8

Because your 'crazy hair dude' used to be the head of ehome, that's the only argument you could make

Edit: Apparently, you can resize the new Start Menu:

http://www.neowin.net/news/start-menu-r ... g-behavior

[newfiend]

Why would we even assume it would be in the build?

It was an afterthought in 8

Because your 'crazy hair dude' used to be the head of ehome, that's the only argument you could make

Edit: Apparently, you can resize the new Start Menu:

http://www.neowin.net/news/start-menu-r ... g-behavior

so have any of you signed up for the tech preview?

[adam1991]

So, MS are hoping to jump on the Star Trek movie train and go right to an even number...that works?

But....8 is an even number...and it doesn't work...

[Ed]

so have any of you signed up for the tech preview?

Nah, it's basically 8.2, so I'm in no rush to check anything out - even in just a VM. Not in the current preview version at least. 8.1 is working fine on the desktop for me ATM.

[TheOsburnFamil]

My bet is its gonna be marketed like the missing Leisure Suit Larry episode/game....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leisure_Su ... g_Floppies

Lol

[Whiznot]

No WMC equals no deal. Clouds, mobile and proprietary stores are not my thing.

[mdavej]

I'm actually kind of hopeful about WMC after watching the announcement. MS seems to be very gun-shy about pissing off any group of customers given the backlash over Win 8. Since they're in a 'trying to please everybody' frame of mind, perhaps they won't remove WMC after all.

[mark1234]

I suspect it's gone. Even if it isn't, it'll be exactly the same as 7MC. Thanks to the charging model in Win8 they now have the data to prove only 4 people bought it. (Of course it might have been as many as 12 people if 8MC had been any different to 7MC, but that's another conversation)

[STC]

Behold the NEW name: Windows 10.8.7