Enterprise Cloud Suite isn't Windows 10, though. As explained on the MS website, "Inside Microsoft’s Cloud Platform - Building the unified platform for modern business", is for enterprise based business users. It's an add-on for current Windows users in a business environment.
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troymail
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Windows 10 ? What happened to Windows 9 ?
If I'm not mistaken, there was some suggestion that MS didn't want people to be confused over "Windows 9" and "Windows 95"
Project25_MASTR
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Windows 95/98 is the story I heard as well. Apparently 98 sucked…I don't remember it sucking, I still use it today and it doesn't suck.
troymail
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Oh yea -- I totally forgot about 98...
Funny, just because newer is available doesn't mean older will stop working. Sort of like going to digital radios only because analog is 'outdated'.
The old systems were unstable in very stable ways - you knew that a particular set of items would cause a crash and avoided them. This PC is still happily XP-Pro SP3, and one of my office machines went from Win2000 to 7 only a year ago. I changed my server from XP to Server12 in October, and an acquaintance still runs Exchange on a 98 box.
For me, no more updates mostly means no more OS changes to muck up the software.
The old systems were unstable in very stable ways - you knew that a particular set of items would cause a crash and avoided them. This PC is still happily XP-Pro SP3, and one of my office machines went from Win2000 to 7 only a year ago. I changed my server from XP to Server12 in October, and an acquaintance still runs Exchange on a 98 box.
For me, no more updates mostly means no more OS changes to muck up the software.
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CapStar362
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yup, Win98 and using Win 9 would confuse people. 98 wasn't THAT bad compared to the complete flop of Me, in which 98SE was released to cover that conflicted mess.
remember how scan disk could not complete itself on a bad shutdown because Me was trying to load new modules which would force Scandisk to reset and start over?
800MB of updates when people hardly had a broadband service capable of getting such data amounts?
remember how scan disk could not complete itself on a bad shutdown because Me was trying to load new modules which would force Scandisk to reset and start over?
800MB of updates when people hardly had a broadband service capable of getting such data amounts?
I'm not afraid to try new things; 'fearless' and 'exploring the far corners of the envelope' come to mind. That said, the commitment putting something new in daily use just because it is 'new' is a different matter. I'm a conservative coward and like to wait a bit and see how the new stuff is really going to work before I commit the farm to it. Examples: ME and Vista, with the jury still deliberating on W8.
Then again, I was ecstatic when WHAT-4 replaced Fortran. I also had an unheard-of 4K of disk storage, but still kept my shoe boxes of 80-column punch cards just in case...
I was also well pleased when my first online experience doubled in speed: 150 baud jumped to 300 baud and the teletype head almost immediately echo'd my slow typing.
Then again, I was ecstatic when WHAT-4 replaced Fortran. I also had an unheard-of 4K of disk storage, but still kept my shoe boxes of 80-column punch cards just in case...
I was also well pleased when my first online experience doubled in speed: 150 baud jumped to 300 baud and the teletype head almost immediately echo'd my slow typing.
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CapStar362
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^^ Wow
8.1 U1 has actually fixed a good portion of the blunders of 8. including the METRO theme with those touch-screen based tiles. you can default 8.1 U1 to a Aero Themed Desktop like Win7 with no extra programs.
upon hearing the words of "Subscription" based features of Win10, ill stick to my 8.1 for now. of which i did the upgrade in Nov 2014. i was 7 for years till then.
8.1 U1 has actually fixed a good portion of the blunders of 8. including the METRO theme with those touch-screen based tiles. you can default 8.1 U1 to a Aero Themed Desktop like Win7 with no extra programs.
upon hearing the words of "Subscription" based features of Win10, ill stick to my 8.1 for now. of which i did the upgrade in Nov 2014. i was 7 for years till then.
I wish I could take a paddle to my sales people sometimes. They go into offices and tout the features of the products I support, and when site survey or install day comes, I have to tell my customers that our software only runs on "modern" Operating Systems - XP/SP3-Win10, OSX 10.7.3 or higher.
They sigh and grumble how they paid $1600 for their WIndows 98 computer (in 1999) and a lot of money for AutoCad 2000, and why should they upgrade. My answer is if the manufacturer no longer supports it, I cannot either.
They sigh and grumble how they paid $1600 for their WIndows 98 computer (in 1999) and a lot of money for AutoCad 2000, and why should they upgrade. My answer is if the manufacturer no longer supports it, I cannot either.
There is no subscription for windows 10
In any of the consumer editions.
READ what is written, the licensing is for ENTERPRISE customers.
sheesh
PS- this was posted from a Mac, and I am no Windows fanboy. Just cannot stand people who post misinformation as FACT
In any of the consumer editions.
READ what is written, the licensing is for ENTERPRISE customers.
sheesh
PS- this was posted from a Mac, and I am no Windows fanboy. Just cannot stand people who post misinformation as FACT
CapStar362
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okay, did i say Windows 10 as a whole? key word in my post: FEATURES
also i said upon hearing words, thus implying its rumored at this point, not FACT. don't twist my words.
i know EXACTLY what enterprise level OS'es entail for licensing.
go back to your Mac now.
like your comment: Just cannot stand people who post misinformation as FACT
i can't stand people who twist words and create false tenses of posts yet are clearly written with key words.
PS: written from a 8.1 PC, hoping you don't dual boot that MAC with Intel based hardware.
also i said upon hearing words, thus implying its rumored at this point, not FACT. don't twist my words.
i know EXACTLY what enterprise level OS'es entail for licensing.
go back to your Mac now.
like your comment: Just cannot stand people who post misinformation as FACT
i can't stand people who twist words and create false tenses of posts yet are clearly written with key words.
PS: written from a 8.1 PC, hoping you don't dual boot that MAC with Intel based hardware.
toastycookies
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7 8 9? (SNICKER)
I wonder if there will be a Windows 13? I'm sure MS marketing is pondering that very question.
I wonder if there will be a Windows 13? I'm sure MS marketing is pondering that very question.
CapStar362
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would be interesting to see
lgentle
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Surprise, surprise!
Received this from M$ just yesterday. I signed up to see what it's all about.
https://infopedia.eventbuilder.com/event?eventid=g1w6v7
Received this from M$ just yesterday. I signed up to see what it's all about.
https://infopedia.eventbuilder.com/event?eventid=g1w6v7
That's why I stay at least one operating system behind "the latest and greatest" ... I upgraded from Windows XP to Windows 7 just this past December. Have been doing it that way for years, and it works great. I refuse to be a Microsoft beta tester.
I'm still running XP. It does what I want it to do. With every new version of Windows, Linux looks better and better.
slicerwizard
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Like a dope dealer giving free initiation hits, lol.
br0adband
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Been testing the legit preview build releases and a few leaks as well and I swear, I can't find one damned thing that interests me about Windows 10 so far, not one single thing.
Not even the fact it'll be free.
If that's not a telling sign I don't know what is.
/me will be running Windows 7 till it simply isn't technologically possible anymore...
Not even the fact it'll be free.
If that's not a telling sign I don't know what is.
/me will be running Windows 7 till it simply isn't technologically possible anymore...
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