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Windows 9

Sounds familiar-- many Linux destop environments have multiple desktops arranged in a continuous circle (or cube) that one can scroll through.

The way out its written, though, makes me wonder if they plan on letting two or more Windows occupy the same desktop for drag-and-drop reasons.
 
Is that a joke? I mean satire or sarcasm or something? Everything I saw there looked like something we've had in Linux for years. So I thought, ha ha! :laugh: this is really funny...and then I thought, wait, maybe it's for real? :confused:

See this now-rather-old blog post to see what I mean.
 
MoodyBlues said:
Is that a joke? I mean satire or sarcasm or something? Everything I saw there looked like something we've had in Linux for years. So I thought, ha ha! :laugh: this is really funny...and then I thought, wait, maybe it's for real? :confused:

See this now-rather-old blog post to see what I mean.
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This is me every time there's a new iOS update or a new iPhone :P

This is just a concept, right? It doesn't look too bad to me...

Also, didn't I read that work on Win9 was going so well that M$ have already started work on Win10?
 
Having trodded along with XP for thirteen years, then buying and hating an Win8 tower enough to return it, now relatively content since 'downgrading' to Win7, I'm ready for them to get it right this time. Too bad it's only happening in our heads...
 
All traditional and metro Windows apps work seamlessly on Windows 9.

But what about the recently departed Gadgets?
 
saptech said:
Well you know how MS is, take from open source and say you are innovating!
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You're not kidding. I remember 10+ years ago explaining tabbed browsing to my visiting brother--who was a window$/IE user. He could NOT wrap his head around the idea of not needing 5,000 iterations of your browser open in order to view multiple web sites simultaneously. :laugh: And then a few years later, when M$ "introduced" the new, exciting feature of tabbed browsing, they couldn't even do it right. Their version of it sucked. :rolleyes:
 
MoodyBlues said:
You're not kidding. I remember 10+ years ago explaining tabbed browsing to my visiting brother--who was a window$/IE user. He could NOT wrap his head around the idea of not needing 5,000 iterations of your browser open in order to view multiple web sites simultaneously. :laugh: And then a few years later, when M$ "introduced" the new, exciting feature of tabbed browsing, they couldn't even do it right. Their version of it sucked. :rolleyes:
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I'm glade to have Chrome. Never use anything else. Ever.
 
sfbloodbrother said:
I'm glade to have Chrome. Never use anything else. Ever.
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Chrome is good, and I use it for certain tasks. But Opera is also really good. As are many other browsers, each with their own features, and pluses and minuses. My standard browser is SeaMonkey, and I just can't see ever giving it up. It's the Internet suite that begat Firefox (browser) and Thunderbird (e-mail/news client). I love it because, among other things, I can do things to it like modify files so my tabs are all different colors, and make add-ons work with it that aren't meant to. My SM is so highly customized, I'd be lost without it.
 
I use whatever tools are available to me, which I feel comfortable with and do the best job for the task at hand.

If that is Chrome, then I use Chrome, be it Firefox, then I use that. Sometimes Internet Explorer is necessary, and therefore I use that.

I am not defined by the tools that I use, any more than I am defined by the stars in the heavens or the bars of my cage.
 
My standard browser is SeaMonkey
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Yes, you had me on that for a while but I settled on Firefox once I got the wonderful Simple Mail addon to replace Thunderbird... had to replace Avast; it blocked web email. I don't know how to make an addons so have take what I can find in FF.
 
I like the Seamonkey suite also. But I settled on using Firefox across all platforms, even while at work.
 
Windows 9 will unify the smartphone, tablet, desktop, and console, but is it too little too late?

If Windows 9 is released next year, Microsoft might stand a chance, especially if Windows 8.1 and the acquisition of Nokia can bolster its mobile efforts in the meantime. Whether such a utopian unified platform can unseat iOS and Android, though, remains to be seen. Apple and Google aren’t standing still, and continue to solidify their market share despite Microsoft’s best efforts to stay relevant. If Windows 9 doesn’t come out in the next 12 months, or if Microsoft doesn’t have some other super-secret plan up its sleeve, the company’s future will creep ever closer towards complete untenability.
 
MoodyBlues said:
And then a few years later, when M$ "introduced" the new, exciting feature of tabbed browsing, they couldn't even do it right. Their version of it sucked. :rolleyes:
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The only thing to come out of Redmond that didn't suck was a vacuum cleaner.
 
Dngrsone said:
I've seen the same prediction every time a new Windows version comes out over the past decade or more.
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Think there's a difference this time, decade ago we didn't have Android. From what I've seen so far, especially for portable and mobile, Microsoft and Windows is almost nowhere, except for desktop and traditional laptop PCs. Windows 8 and Windows Phone have been out for over a year now, and I've hardly seen them. This is China though, don't know about elsewhere. And now big names like HP are starting to do low-cost Android PCs, along with quite a few Chinese makers.

Was only a few years ago, a smart-phone basically meant Blackberry. I think if Microsoft isn't careful and doesn't watch out very soon, they could go the same way.
 
Microsoft's seen as struggling because it so desperately and publicly wants to do an Apple and grab a big chunk of the mobile computing market. And is so clearly failing.

On the other hand, while it's certainly not Apple, it's also certainly not Blackberry: Microsoft has the vast corporate desktop and server markets tied up with no real indication that's going to change anytime soon. Yes, it is losing a big chunk of the consumer market to tablets, but it's still highly profitable, if a tad less highly than say a decade ago.
 
Again, as I have said elsewhere in these forums, Microsoft is not so much concerned with the consumer market. Their money comes from the big corporations and government entities.

Their strategy over the past two decades has been to keep the big-paying customers and the consumer market will fall in line.

Hence their illusions of security and focus on enterprise software.
 
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