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"Microsoft is making another Windows variant: Windows 10 Lean"
On Fri, 27 Apr 2018 11:35:36 -0500, a.m wrote:
On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 12:17:12 +0100, mechanic wrote: On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 10:53:39 -0000 (UTC), Suzuki Ichiro wrote: On 2018/04/26, "...w¡ñ§±¤ñ" wrote: The obvious intent is to allow prevent limited storage devices being stuck on the as-shipped version of Windows. Development of 'Lean' though does not mean it will or will not become a reality. How much smaller is lean from regular windows? It's supposed to take 2GB less hard disk space. Not exactly that lean. If Microsoft were serious, they should make sure that the operating system take no more than 2GB installed. I used to run Windows 95 on a 500MB hard disk with space left over for games and applications yet could complete most of the basic tasks I complete today. I used to run Newdos/80 on a 5 MB hard drive with plenty of room left for games and programs! |
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"Microsoft is making another Windows variant: Windows 10 Lean"
On Fri, 27 Apr 2018 17:01:07 -0500, a.m wrote:
On Fri, 27 Apr 2018 11:53:03 -0400, Wolf K wrote: On 2018-04-27 12:35, a.m wrote: On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 12:17:12 +0100, mechanic wrote: On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 10:53:39 -0000 (UTC), Suzuki Ichiro wrote: On 2018/04/26, "...w¡ñ§±¤ñ" wrote: The obvious intent is to allow prevent limited storage devices being stuck on the as-shipped version of Windows. Development of 'Lean' though does not mean it will or will not become a reality. How much smaller is lean from regular windows? It's supposed to take 2GB less hard disk space. Not exactly that lean. If Microsoft were serious, they should make sure that the operating system take no more than 2GB installed. I used to run Windows 95 on a 500MB hard disk with space left over for games and applications yet could complete most of the basic tasks I complete today. I think figuring out how to reduce the bloat is just not worth it from MS's POV. Would cost too much time and money. Probably not, but there truly is no reason for an operating system to take the GBs that they currently do. Even Linux shouldn't be as large post-installation as it is even though it's way smaller than Windows is. I imagine that some of the bundled libraries take up space though. There are people with skills to adapt programs to elderly machines. I have an adaptation of Firefox that allows my G4 ibook to play youtube full screen. |
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"Microsoft is making another Windows variant: Windows 10 Lean"
"nospam" wrote in message
... a 4tb hard drive is currently around $100 I live in the UK. When I bought a 4 TB drive about a year ago, it was about £120. They are still about £90-£100. Factor in the currency conversion rate of $1 = £0.73, that's a fair old mark-up that we have to pay in the UK, Fuel is even more scary. Current price is around £1.23 / litre (not gallon) for petrol (gasoline) and £1.25 for diesel. If my calculations are correct, that's (1.23/0.73) * 3.8 [litres per US gallon] = $6.37 / US gallon. https://www.gasbuddy.com/USA says prices are around $2.50 - $3.60, so UK fuel is a real ripoff :-( |
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"Microsoft is making another Windows variant: Windows 10 Lean"
On Fri, 27 Apr 2018 12:57:38 -0700, ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ
wrote: "a.m" wrote in message ... Not exactly that lean. If Microsoft were serious, they should make sure that the operating system take no more than 2GB installed. I used to run Windows 95 on a 500MB hard disk with space left over for games and applications yet could complete most of the basic tasks I complete today. Today, Win95 as a base reference 23 yrs later is a pipe dream. No more than 2GB installed ? Easy...Windows 'Click to Run' approach - Install minimal and pull down from the cloud to RAM as needed. I like that approach though I would allow the user to have the ability to install the application to HD if they intend to use it regularly or offline. Let's hope that Microsoft is reading these posts (unlikely) and getting ideas. |
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"Microsoft is making another Windows variant: Windows 10 Lean"
On Fri, 27 Apr 2018 15:09:00 -0500, Mark Lloyd
wrote: On 04/27/2018 01:59 PM, NY wrote: [snip] My first PC had a 20 MB (yes, megabyte) hard drive, and was designed for running DOS. I managed to install Windows 3 on it (from a stack of floppies), running in a restricted 8086 mode because that's all my PC had. OK, there was no space left for any other apps, and I had to remove things to make the space, but it shows that Windows 3 would run on a 20 MB hard drive. I had a 386SX with 30MB hard drive. The drive controller had a problem that made it incompatible with protected mode. BTW, Windows (3.1) used the save file system as DOS, so my old backup batch file worked, to backup everything to 10 1.44MB floppies. And when you restored from backup, you discovered that floppy #7 had bad sectors. |
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"Microsoft is making another Windows variant: Windows 10 Lean"
On Sat, 28 Apr 2018 11:57:29 +1000, Lucifer Morningstar
wrote: On Fri, 27 Apr 2018 17:01:07 -0500, a.m wrote: On Fri, 27 Apr 2018 11:53:03 -0400, Wolf K wrote: On 2018-04-27 12:35, a.m wrote: On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 12:17:12 +0100, mechanic wrote: On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 10:53:39 -0000 (UTC), Suzuki Ichiro wrote: On 2018/04/26, "...w¡ñ§±¤ñ" wrote: The obvious intent is to allow prevent limited storage devices being stuck on the as-shipped version of Windows. Development of 'Lean' though does not mean it will or will not become a reality. How much smaller is lean from regular windows? It's supposed to take 2GB less hard disk space. Not exactly that lean. If Microsoft were serious, they should make sure that the operating system take no more than 2GB installed. I used to run Windows 95 on a 500MB hard disk with space left over for games and applications yet could complete most of the basic tasks I complete today. I think figuring out how to reduce the bloat is just not worth it from MS's POV. Would cost too much time and money. Probably not, but there truly is no reason for an operating system to take the GBs that they currently do. Even Linux shouldn't be as large post-installation as it is even though it's way smaller than Windows is. I imagine that some of the bundled libraries take up space though. There are people with skills to adapt programs to elderly machines. I have an adaptation of Firefox that allows my G4 ibook to play youtube full screen. I have to say that if I used a G4 today, it would exclusively be used for word processing and e-mail. Browsing is a possibility, obviously, as it was back then but I doubt that most browsers available for the platform can display today's pages correctly. If you have one that runs Youtube properly and full-screen at that then someone out there needs to be commended for their dedication to long-abandoned processors. |
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"Microsoft is making another Windows variant: Windows 10 Lean"
NY wrote:
"a.m" wrote in message ... On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 12:17:12 +0100, mechanic How much smaller is lean from regular windows? It's supposed to take 2GB less hard disk space. Not exactly that lean. If Microsoft were serious, they should make sure that the operating system take no more than 2GB installed. I used to run Windows 95 on a 500MB hard disk with space left over for games and applications yet could complete most of the basic tasks I complete today. My first PC had a 20 MB (yes, megabyte) hard drive, and was designed for running DOS. I managed to install Windows 3 on it (from a stack of floppies), running in a restricted 8086 mode because that's all my PC had. OK, there was no space left for any other apps, and I had to remove things to make the space, but it shows that Windows 3 would run on a 20 MB hard drive. What a ridiculously big HD! :-) What's wrong with running a (real) UNIX system on a 5MB HD, with room to spare! :-) [1] [1] 1983 era. Don't remember the memory size, probably 512KB or so. |
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"Microsoft is making another Windows variant: Windows 10 Lean"
a.m wrote:
On Fri, 27 Apr 2018 15:09:00 -0500, Mark Lloyd wrote: [...] BTW, Windows (3.1) used the save file system as DOS, so my old backup batch file worked, to backup everything to 10 1.44MB floppies. And when you restored from backup, you discovered that floppy #7 had bad sectors. And then you just used PC-Tools to 'revive' the bad sectors. Well, with some luck. Anyway, there no such thing as 1.44 'floppies'! :-) |
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"Microsoft is making another Windows variant: Windows 10 Lean"
On 04/28/2018 10:18 AM, a.m wrote:
[snip] And when you restored from backup, you discovered that floppy #7 had bad sectors. But the other backup probably wouldn't have bad sectors. Then I knew the importance of keeping more than one backup. -- Mark Lloyd http://notstupid.us/ "The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions." -- Claude Lévi-Strauss |
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"Microsoft is making another Windows variant: Windows 10 Lean"
Wolf K wrote:
On 2018-04-28 14:23, Frank Slootweg wrote: a.m wrote: On Fri, 27 Apr 2018 15:09:00 -0500, Mark Lloyd wrote: [...] BTW, Windows (3.1) used the save file system as DOS, so my old backup batch file worked, to backup everything to 10 1.44MB floppies. And when you restored from backup, you discovered that floppy #7 had bad sectors. And then you just used PC-Tools to 'revive' the bad sectors. Well, with some luck. Anyway, there no such thing as 1.44 'floppies'! :-) Well, hereabouts there were. ;-) I know. Hereabouts (The Netherlands) there were as well. It's a language thing. Yup, the bad language variety. Just try to 'flop' a diskette! :-) |
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