Windows 10

[Yoshi]

This is pathetic if true:

Microsoft dev here, the internal rumours are that early testing revealed just how many third party products that had code of the form

if(version.StartsWith("Windows 9"))

{ /* 95 and 98 */

} else {

and that this was the pragmatic solution to avoid that.

Link

[Joust Williams]

smart.

[Josh]

Xbox -> Xbox 360 -> Xbox One.

Is anyone really surprised?

[MechDeus]

This is pathetic if true:

Link

It's lazy, sure, but considering the Windows naming scheme until 7 I don't think it's pathetic for random companies to have gone that route.

[Chux]

Windows 10 confirmed free for all 8.1 Users and free after the first year for all 7 users.

Stream here.
http://t.co/Wf42cN2rtP

[Yoshi]

So... what's the catch? Are they assuming people will buy some SaaS offering like Office 365 alongside it?

[Joust Williams]

Seems it's free for the first year for 7 and 8/8.1, not free forever for 8/8.1

[Chux]

I have no idea. Cnet seems to think it's just to get a huge userbase, since Win8 only had something like 10% market share which is horrible.

[Yoshi]

Ah, that actually makes sense. Apple and Google have certainly infringed significantly on their home users, and Apple is even starting to make in roads with corporate ones.

edit: I'll take DirectX 12 for free and then start working on disabling as many of the rest of the new "features" as I can.

[Chux]

lol Yoda talk, system seller.