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We may finally have an answer to a question that's bugged us since Microsoft first announced Windows 10: What the heck happened to Windows 9? Someone get their coat
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I thought we'd already answered that one last year?
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"))
{
} else {
and that this was the pragmatic solution to avoid that.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Yup.
Read the story. It's a bad, bad joke answer.
TTFN - Kent
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You mean to say the illuminati weren't involved? 
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How fans of open source will greet Microsoft's move is a question mark. How to work that into the 'Microsoft is evil incarnate' story?
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How fans of open source will greet Microsoft's move is a question mark.
The usual way. By creating hundreds of forks and custom versions each screaming that it's better than the others.
Marc
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Quote: Microsoft is using the OSI-approved MIT license for the .Net core components released to date, which is compatible with licenses that apply to key Mono components, Weinberg observed. It seems reasonable that a merged Mono/.Net project would take the best-in-class elements of both.
That, however, doesn't seem to be the case.
The Microsoft version of open source .Net Core is separate from Mono's, IDC Program Director Al Hilwa told LinuxInsider.
Microsoft apparently will go ahead with its own work.
Although the Mono community "appears to welcome the [open source] announcement by Microsoft," said Black Duck's Weinberg, "I don't imagine they will simply stop development or immediately move to coalesce their project with the new Microsoft release."
Even if they're apparently not doing so in the short term, over the long haul it would make sense for Mono to deprecate their own base class libraries and concentrate on stuff farther up the runtime stack that MS hasn't opensourced, and are unlikely to do so in the future.
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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The phrase “nine to five” is becoming an anachronism. "Back on the chain gang"
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Right! I'm working only 32 hours a week for the past 7 years...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I break out in hives around 32. I can't see how people can make it all the way to 40.
TTFN - Kent
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"nine to five" implies a 35 hour work week (assuming you are going to have a lunch break)
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In this post, we are sharing a list of legacy IE technologies and features that are not part of Microsoft Edge. Spring cleaning: Browser edition
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The iPhone could become a new tool in genetic studies. Then they can breed an army of customers (that are born with credit cards already in hand)
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I believe they should start looking at making the iPhone vibrate at a frequency that would be in tune with the users spending habits. They could make the thing vibrate in such a way as to urge the buyer to buy their newest gadget.
The NSA could also use it to have criminals turn themselves in or have them congregate in a collection area.
Wouldn't that just be grand?
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.1 new web site.
I know the voices in my head are not real but damn they come up with some good ideas!
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Microsoft’s new Edge browser is one of the most exciting features coming in Windows 10, representing a break with the past and the company’s determination to move forward. However, despite what many were expecting, Microsoft has no plans to open source Edge. "Some mysteries are better left unsolved."
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Sure! You may reveal that way in no time that Edge is only a makeup for IE11!!!
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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An analysis of GitHub data finds that, among all programming languages, C code contains the most references to down and dirty code fixes. "Surely you can't be serious?"
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And here I thought it was Ruby that had the worst hacks. Actually, it probably didn't make the list because everything about Ruby is a hack!
Marc
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'struth, but like I said before: there they call them 'features'. (At least the C folk are more self-aware and honest)
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: At least the C folk are more self-aware and honest
Indeed, perhaps because they're older, more mature, wiser, and have less of an ego. No, strike that last. 
Marc
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I'm going to print this out and stuff it in the face of the first person who tells me VB sucks 
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VB sucks. 
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Say that to my face if you dare!
I can't stuff things in peoples face on CP... 
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Sander Rossel wrote: Say that to my face if you dare!
If you supply the plane tickets (round trip, business class)...
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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