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Dave Calkins3-Jul-14 14:24

Dave Calkins

3-Jul-14 14:24

I think your obvious enthusiasm for metro is great, but I'm not sure you fully get how the pieces go together. I guess we'll have to just agree to disagree Smile | :)

Colborne_Greg3-Jul-14 16:38

3-Jul-14 16:38

I am telling you how it works.

Valery Possoz30-Jun-14 11:43

Valery Possoz

30-Jun-14 11:43

If windows 9 has no desktop, I'll buy a Mac and register to iCodeProject...

I don't believe a second the desktop is going away! not now, not in the next 5-10 years.

The desktop is where the vast majority of business softwares run. Business is where Microsoft makes more than 55% of its income!
Unless Microsoft suddenly decides they want to die overnight there's not a chance they dump the desktop in the short to medium term!

Windows 8 was another Vista disaster, I doubt Windows 9 will be Vista 3.0!!

PIEBALDconsult30-Jun-14 12:53

PIEBALDconsult

30-Jun-14 12:53

Valery Possoz wrote:
Windows 8 was another Vista disaster

Vista was ME 2.0 Big Grin | :-D

You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.

OriginalGriff30-Jun-14 20:08

OriginalGriff

30-Jun-14 20:08

Ah, but ME was DOS4.0.2.0! Laugh | :laugh:

Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)

Colborne_Greg1-Jul-14 5:05

1-Jul-14 5:05

Vista was longhorn 2.0
XP was ME + windows 2000

Windows 8 is XP + Vista - oh look its all of them.

Go buy a mac

PIEBALDconsult1-Jul-14 5:28

PIEBALDconsult

1-Jul-14 5:28

Colborne_Greg wrote:
Vista was longhorn 2.0

Longhorn was the code name of Vista. I have the beta. Cool | :cool:

Colborne_Greg wrote:
Go buy a mac

Never!

You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.

Colborne_Greg1-Jul-14 5:45

1-Jul-14 5:45

Chicken before the egg.

Longhorn is an operating system without purpose created right out of the box with the .net framework 1.1.

Vista is an attempt to make money off an incomplete project, and is the only reason it failed.

Windows 8 is also longhorn.
I was trained by Microsoft in 2002 in .net 1.1 before it was publicly released, we used to say longhorn, in it for the long haul.

Joe Woodbury1-Jul-14 6:15

Joe Woodbury

1-Jul-14 6:15

I don't know where you're getting your information nor why you are acting so rude. I suggest going to Paul Thurrott's http://winsupersite.com/[^] which has good information. Here is [one of] his "article[s]" on Longhorn: http://winsupersite.com/article/faqtip/windows-longhorn-faq[^]

Colborne_Greg1-Jul-14 7:30

1-Jul-14 7:30

If you didn't notice the article does not say longhorn is vista. thanks for playing.

Joe Woodbury1-Jul-14 7:36

Joe Woodbury

1-Jul-14 7:36

Longhorn was the development code name, Vista the commercial name. (Whistler became XP, Blackcomb became Windows 7.)

One reference: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Windows/Pushing-Forward/[^]

Colborne_Greg1-Jul-14 8:36

1-Jul-14 8:36

Longhorn is an incomplete operating system.

Vista takes Longhorn and turns it into an operating system but vista is not longhorn, its an attempt to sell the project.

Get over yourself.

Joe Woodbury1-Jul-14 8:44

Joe Woodbury

1-Jul-14 8:44

Colborne_Greg wrote:
Get over yourself.

Why are you being so rude and confrontational?

You are not the only person who knows someone who works at Microsoft or knows the history of operating systems. The fact is that Longhorn was the code name for the release that was scheduled between Whistler and Blackcomb. Whoever told you otherwise has no idea what they are talking about.

Colborne_Greg1-Jul-14 8:50

1-Jul-14 8:50

I never said that it wasn't a codename, what I am saying is that it is different from vista.

How do I know this because I was trained internally by Microsoft in 2002-2004 on dot net 1.1 and its attempt to turn it into an operating system.

Longhorn was an operating system used by people, other code name projects only went as far as beta testing.

Colborne_Greg1-Jul-14 5:03

1-Jul-14 5:03

Then buy a mac now.

Mark_Wallace30-Jun-14 20:40

30-Jun-14 20:40

They're calling it "threshold", apparently.

I'll wait until they've gone all the way through the door, before I spend any time considering a purchase.

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

Colborne_Greg1-Jul-14 5:04

1-Jul-14 5:04

I don't care if you purchase it

Mark_Wallace2-Jul-14 4:28

2-Jul-14 4:28

I couldn't care less that you don't care.

Unless you're an illiterate American, of course, in which case I could care less.

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

Colborne_Greg2-Jul-14 8:45

2-Jul-14 8:45

I do not care is zero caring, I could care less, would mean to say I have caring and the possibility of me to care less is there, but what I think you mean to say is I couldn't care less, which could mean zero caring but it is also a phrase with a reference to how I currently care about something, but when I say I don't care - the amount I care is clear.

Mark_Wallace2-Jul-14 10:18

2-Jul-14 10:18

I don't need to be told what I want to say; I know that with high precision.

My comment simply indicates that illiterate Americans obviously do not know what they are saying.

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

Colborne_Greg2-Jul-14 11:04

2-Jul-14 11:04

If you know what you are talking about with high precision, and you were referring to myself - then indeed you do not know what you are talking about as I am not American.

Mark_Wallace3-Jul-14 7:33

3-Jul-14 7:33

Ah, so it's all about you, is it?

I tellya, the egos in this place...

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

Colborne_Greg3-Jul-14 8:47

3-Jul-14 8:47

Buddy first off, when someone starts a sentence with I it is indeed about themselves, and secondly this thread is something I started, so when I say I don't care, it isn't an ego trip.

What you are doing is being a self righteous ass.

Mark_Wallace4-Jul-14 0:49

4-Jul-14 0:49

What you are being is an idiot who refuses to see a joke when it smacks him squarely in the face.

Your initial comment ("I don't care if you purchase it", in case you've forgotten your ingenious reply) was so pointlessly rude that I didn't bother to reply to it, but instead made fun of the misuse of the word "could" in the incorrect statement of "I could care less", which is used only and exclusively by the set of Americans who are illiterate (do the venn diagram, if you wish to confirm this -- the illiterati in other English-speaking countries say "couldn't").

That joke was of far more value to the forum than your ill-mannered comment ("I don't care if you purchase it", in case you've forgotten it again), because it at least contained good humour, rather than snide arrogance.

If, as it seems to be the case, you wish to have an ill-natured argument with someone, take it elsewhere -- CP doesn't need that kind of behaviour, and I'll just take the piss, so you'll just get all indignant and bad-tempered to no purpose.

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

Colborne_Greg4-Jul-14 1:33