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Microsoft to stop producing Windows versions · 8

forwardslash · 3495 days ago

bbc.com · #tech · #microsoft · #whocares

Jerry Nixon, a Microsoft development executive, said in a conference speech this week that Windows 10 would be the "last version" of the dominant desktop software.

If these means they'll be changing to a subscription based service, fuck that.

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mk · 3495 days ago · link ·

It's going to be a hard sell if a PC doesn't come with a few years worth of upgrades. My laptop cycle is pretty much Windows to Linux. If I can get four years before making the switch, not much will change for me.

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user-inactivated · 3495 days ago · link ·

Those were my exact thoughts, subscription. Oh yes, they are going down! Check "Freya" Linux distro on my wife's laptop, which has 3 gigs of ram, and used to be extremely laggy with windows 8. Instead of paying fur windows 7 (legality is important here) I installed it right after trying deep in Linux (which didn't recognize display drivers/lagging YouTube). It's faster than my windows 7 laptop with 8 gigs of ram!

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caelum19 · 3494 days ago · link ·

If they use a subscription service I'm just going to stick with my not-so-legit copy of Windows 8.1

I doubt they will though, I think they just want as many people to be using the most up to date version of windows, probably for app store profits.

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user-inactivated · 3494 days ago · link ·

Let's hope you're on the dot about it, and thank you for sharing your view (kind of put me at ease). (_8^(l)< homer, from the america online times l, when they actually had smilies for new people to familiarize themselves

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caelum19 · 3494 days ago · link ·

That's a nice looking homer, did you make it yourself?

I wasn't around when AOL Instant Messenger was popular, I actually had to look up what America Online was haha, what was it like compared to more modern IMs such as Skype?

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user-inactivated · 3494 days ago · link ·

It was available in the program AOL (america online). Back then before AOL instant messenger, it was an internet service provider, as people used their software to connect online through dialup, chatrooms were plenty, people wrote punters (used HTML code to freeze, lag, crash the AOL client). Good days, but it was too limiting, and I started to learn about the internet after they got rid of me and I got a real ISP - internet service provider

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briandmyers · 3494 days ago · link ·

I'm so old I remember using ICQ, which I believe AOL bought and turned into AOL instant messenger. ICQ was like magic back then.

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user-inactivated · 3494 days ago · link ·

Yes, age provides wisdom. I remember ICQ, never a big fan though. Near the end days of my usage, people were obsessing with shorter login numbers, attempting to steal/hack some.