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Seth sethNOSPAM NOSPAMclcpro.com wrote:
Windows 10 http://www.engadget.com/2014/09/30/m...=rss_truncated Microsoft needs to stop trying to harness the ultraportable PC business and start innovating in the desktop PC business. The glaring example is speech. Ultraportable PCs (like smartphones and tablets) already have better built-in speech capabilities than Windows does. If Google and Nuance port speech recognition and control to Linux, I'm out of here. |
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Trying to use Microsoft's Windows Speech Recognition (WSR) or Dragon
NaturallySpeaking (DNS) for dictation and control is becoming a nightmare. Windows 8 has a few nice features that I like, like fully functional Aero window previews from the taskbar when using a high contrast color scheme, but it's killing my speech. |
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"Seth" wrote in message ... Windows 10 http://www.engadget.com/2014/09/30/m...=rss_truncated Here's a video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84NI5fjTfpQ |
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Seth wrote:
Windows 10 http://www.engadget.com/2014/09/30/m...=rss_truncated Ho hum. Interesting that the images of Windows 10 contradict the written content... -- best regards, Neil |
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"John Doe" wrote in message
... Microsoft needs to stop trying to harness the ultraportable PC business and start innovating in the desktop PC business. Retailers do not nowadays sell enough new desktops to constitute a market big enough to attract MS. -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) |
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On 30/09/2014 18:27, Seth wrote:
Windows 10 http://www.engadget.com/2014/09/30/m...=rss_truncated Officially here also: http://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwindows/2014/09/30/announcing-windows-10/ Keep Linux Junkies guessing. |
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"Don Phillipson" wrote:
"John Doe" wrote Microsoft needs to stop trying to harness the ultraportable PC business and start innovating in the desktop PC business. Retailers do not nowadays sell enough new desktops to constitute a market big enough to attract MS. From what I can see, looks like they sell approximately the same number as always. But like I said, Microsoft doesn't innovate, it does just enough to keep its stranglehold on desktop computer software. I submit that's part of the problem with PC sales. Of course tablets would have come along anyway, but Microsoft could help the PC technology if it were an innovator instead of just a monopoly holder. More people would be buying PCs. You can bet that PC sales will drop just before Microsoft is pushed out of the business and another conglomerate takes over. Microsoft has made more than enough money off of the personal computer market to make personal computers into a lot more than they are today. Apparently many big corporate leaders have forgotten how capitalism is supposed to be, they have forgotten that it involves reinvesting the money. |
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Seth wrote:
Windows 10 http://www.engadget.com/2014/09/30/m...=rss_truncated I'm guessing the "Windows 10" is to compete with "MacOSX". And that means all future OSes will be 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, etc. Maybe it's acknowledgment of a "subscription future". I would not accept a naive rationale for why it is "10". There is some evil in that choice, which we'll have to wait and see. This was not a "9 stinks as a number" decision. It has some other meaning. For Apple, the break from MacOS 9 to MacOSX, was a transition from cooperative multitasking to pre-emptive multitasking. It was a change worthy of a new name (as pre-emptive is not crash prone like co-operative was). In the case of Microsoft, the transition from 8 to 10 involves no new technologies (I've seen no ground breaking announcements), so this is hardly a comparable naming exercise. Microsoft had pre-emptive multitasking for a lot longer than Apple. And before them, probably some Unix kernel. But for Apple, their rewrite of the OS was a turning point, from the "toy OS" that was MacOS 9. MacOS 6 through 9 were still very nice, but "they crashed too much". It used to crash once a day for me, on average. It's where the notion of "do frequent saves" came from. You're on a Mac. The MacOSX machine here, doesn't have that problem (not that I use it much any more). Paul |
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On Wed, 01 Oct 2014 00:47:29 -0400, Paul wrote:
I'm guessing the "Windows 10" is to compete with "MacOSX". And that means all future OSes will be 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, etc. Maybe it's acknowledgment of a "subscription future". I would not accept a naive rationale for why it is "10". There is some evil in that choice, which we'll have to wait and see. This was not a "9 stinks as a number" decision. It has some other meaning. Well, the number spoken English does sound like the German word for "no", and marketing people do take heed of things like that. Anyway, why should Microsoft feel the need to compete with something that only has about 10% of the market? Rod. |
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On 10/1/14 3:55 AM, Roderick Stewart wrote:
On Wed, 01 Oct 2014 00:47:29 -0400, Paul wrote: I'm guessing the "Windows 10" is to compete with "MacOSX". And that means all future OSes will be 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, etc. Maybe it's acknowledgment of a "subscription future". I would not accept a naive rationale for why it is "10". There is some evil in that choice, which we'll have to wait and see. This was not a "9 stinks as a number" decision. It has some other meaning. Well, the number spoken English does sound like the German word for "no", and marketing people do take heed of things like that. Anyway, why should Microsoft feel the need to compete with something that only has about 10% of the market? Speculation, but maybe because Apple's share is growing? Plus, Apple seems to still be the big elephant in the room when it comes to smartphones and tablets, which seems to be where MS wants to go. Although I personally don't consider the Surface Pro 3 to be a "true" tablet. It seems to be heading more towards being like the MacBook Air, just with a detachable screen. -- Ken Mac OS X 10.8.5 Firefox 25.0 Thunderbird 24.6.0 "My brain is like lightning, a quick flash and it's gone!" |
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"Seth" schreef in bericht
... Windows 10 http://www.engadget.com/2014/09/30/m...=rss_truncated The Windows version number logic has always been a mystery for me. Why 10? Perhaps version 9 was a failure? -- |\ /| | \/ |@rk \../ \/os |
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On 10/01/2014 12:50 AM, The Other Guy wrote:
On Tue, 30 Sep 2014 20:14:16 -0400, "Don Phillipson" wrote: "John Doe" wrote in message ... Microsoft needs to stop trying to harness the ultraportable PC business and start innovating in the desktop PC business. Retailers do not nowadays sell enough new desktops to constitute a market big enough to attract MS. They SHOULD have gone with the trend, and called it Windows Plus, instead of just a number. --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com Oh yes, please, Windows Plus Pro and Windows Plus Ultimate and Windows Plus Home and maybe and Windows Plus Minus. |
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"John Doe" wrote in message
... "Don Phillipson" wrote: "John Doe" wrote Microsoft needs to stop trying to harness the ultraportable PC business and start innovating in the desktop PC business. Retailers do not nowadays sell enough new desktops to constitute a market big enough to attract MS. From what I can see, looks like they sell approximately the same number as always. All local indicators suggest laptops far outsell desktops nowadays (not to mention also tablets.) . . . Apparently many big corporate leaders have forgotten how capitalism is supposed to be, they have forgotten that it involves reinvesting the money. This may be true of "capitalism" but is not uniformly so for people. Most people with investments either (a) cash them in so as to enjoy spending the proceeds, or (b) bequeathe them to other people who may make their own decisions (whether to invest or enjoy.) The general system of capitalism does indeed "involve" reinvesting, but capital does not by itself. -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) |
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| I'm guessing the "Windows 10" is to compete with "MacOSX". | And that means all future OSes will be 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, etc. | Maybe it's acknowledgment of a "subscription future". All of that seems like a good guess. Also, Microsofties have always been oddly infatuated with "X": ActiveX, X-Box, docx. The Win32 API has many functions that have been updated, which MS denotes by "ex". For example, GetVersion returns the version of the OS. GetVersionEx is the newer, improved replacement. It's used in a similar way as the word "premium", having no actual meaning but implying some sort of specialness. Perhaps even the ditzy MS obsession with XML goes back to X. With Windows being at #10 they can plaster Xs here, there and everywhere, "to their hearts' content". Who wouldn't want to replace Notepad, with Notepad X, after all? It sounds like a race car. Notepad X is sure to be more spiffy, with great new functions like a built-in Bing Bar that searches thesaurus.bing.com. The Bing Bar could then send a copy of your work to Microsoft every few minutes to help with picking ads to show at the top of the Notepad X window. Then the cover story can be that Notepad X is cloudified (or rather XCloudiffified), with online backup. I can hardly wait. Progress is a thrilling thing. I'm already feeling a bit depressed that I'm just writing this post in plain old OE and not in OutlookExpressX. |
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