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Microsoft today lifted the veil on its upcoming Windows 10 operating system, offering a thorough preview of what consumers can expect when the software is released later this year across desktops, smartphones, and tablets. A Start Menu? Where'd they get that silly idea?
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WHAT?!? I want my damn Start Screen! Do you know how much productivity I'll lose going back to a measly, tiny menu??!? How dare they change their Operating System!
/sarc /righteous-indignation /internet-rage
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Quote: To start off, Microsoft has already leveraged early tester feedback to improve Windows 10. If you're familiar with and prefer the Windows 8.1 experience, you'll be able to take the Start Screen full screen instead of the Windows 7-style start menu we saw in September.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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In the world of mainstream Web browsers, Microsoft stands alone. Apple's Safari browser is a closed source shell wrapped around an open source rendering engine, WebKit. Google's Chrome browser is a closed source fork of an open source shell wrapped around an open source rendering engine, Blink. Opera, too, puts its own shell around the Blink engine. Mozilla's Firefox is entirely open source. "Moulded by the dead brain of a hybrid nightmare, would not such a vaporous terror constitute in all loathsome truth the exquisitely, the shriekingly unnamable?"
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They don't have to do anything.
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I didn't realize you were an H.P. Lovecraft fan, Kent!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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He was a genius outside his time 
TTFN - Kent
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Ask them to open source Skype 
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Microsoft has announced at its January 21st event that all Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 users will be eligible for a free upgrade to Windows 10 for the first year of its launch. "Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose"
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Can you un-grade if you decide you don't like it?
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I'd be willing to put money on "yes", assuming that answer includes, "as long as you reformat your hard drive" after it.
But it's got to be better than 8.1 anyway. I mean. Cortana! Now everyone can fall in love with their computers. (where's the eyeroll icon?)
TTFN - Kent
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You rang?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I wonder how they'll handle it if, after one year you need to reinstall everything. Will you still be able to get the upgrade for free?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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There's a live stream of the briefing here[^]
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose"
Great quote and didn't know where it came from until I Googled.
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Sounds like they plan to release 11 within that year. 
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That's the way it *should* be considering we have paid for mostly the same lines of code ten times already...a small fee for what changed would be okay.
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I feel sorry for Windws 8 users. 
Haven't read the article.
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New research links sitting for long hours with elevated risk of cancer, cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes and early death. "Get up offa that thing, and try to release that pressure!"
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Hey, the reason I have a hot ass because I work on it all day long.
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TMI
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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It was a joke.
Jeremy Falcon
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So was my reply.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Suuuuuuure it was.
Jeremy Falcon
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