The dumbasses completely skipped windows 9. Unfingbelievable.
http://live.theverge.com/microsoft-windows-9-event-live-blog/
http://live.theverge.com/microsoft-windows-9-event-live-blog/
Okay, I hate to focus on relatively unimportant things like a name, but seriously, WTF? Microsoft had to understand that people were going to ask about skipping "9" and this is the answer they came up with?Sam Posten said:This product, when you see the product in your fullness I think you'll agree with us that it's a more appropriate name.
Yeah, I don't get it either! I don't give a rip if they skipped 9 to 10.ChristopherG said:Sooo, we're hung up over the numbering instead of the content? I don't get why a company is vilified for listening to the market and issuing course corrections to something their customer base didn't like. What am I missing?
iSmell a lawsuit.Sam Posten said:Dunno about anyone else, for me it was a head slap at the stupidity and then moving on to what's changed and improved. So far there are a LOT of roll backs but only one significant IMPROVEMENT, and that is copying Apple's implementation of multiple desktops, which took what Unix had been doing and made it usable.
Because it's weird. So weird, so random, so without explanation. And the perception that the biggest software company in the world can't count on their own fingers is scary funny.ChristopherG said:Sooo, we're hung up over the numbering instead of the content? I don't get why a company is vilified for listening to the market and issuing course corrections to something their customer base didn't like. What am I missing?
that's just silly.DaveF said:Because it's weird. So weird, so random, so without explanation. And the perception that the biggest software company in the world can't count on their own fingers is scary funny.