Microsoft will unveil the next version of Windows on June 24th - What's next after Windows 10?

[Cool Dog]

Don't they know at this point not to fuck with this kind of thing if it's going to brick plenty of legacy business side apps? I wouldn't put it past them to continue attempting to make Windows mobile centric in layout, but to the point of functionality in general being completely screwed I doubt it.

I didnt say they will mod the UI to be mobile-like but that the OS itself will be more locked-down like phones are

There will probably be a windows enterprise edition without those limitations but it will be only sold to companies and enterprise-grade OEMs, the home edition will be crippled af

I don't see the benefit to them making it paid at this point when it's been practically free for so long. It would scare off a lot of people who could then either go to Mac or even pick up Linux. You can't slam the lid back on Pandora's box especially with gibs on the line.

Win10 isnt free, the upgrade from 8 and 7 was free only for a year but thats it, you still have to pay for it

They already realized they can get tons of telemetry and datamining even off an OS people paid for, why make it free? why cut down their profits? the last big threat to microsoft was steamOS luring gamers and thus devs away from windows and that and steamboxes were a total failure. Desktop linux is stagnated, and I say this as a linux user. And with apple going with ARM the hackintosh scene is going to be dead the moment x86 macs are out of support. Its clear that google has no intention of releasing an android version for desktop, the android x86 scene is pitiful, and chromeOS is a glorified linux distro locked to hardware and meant to lure normalfags to google's web apps, little more than a terminal

The fact is windows has never had so little competition in the past 15-20 years as it does now, microsoft has no incentive to improve their OS, we're back to the late 90s

 

[Kosher Dill]

Win10 isnt free, the upgrade from 8 and 7 was free only for a year but thats it, you still have to pay for it

Windows 7 and 8 keys still work on the equivalent edition of Windows 10 to this day. It wouldn't pass audit if Microsoft decided to audit your licenses, but if you're just setting up a computer for your grandma or something, it shouldn't be a problem. Just don't do it for a room full of 500 computers at your business.

 

[Pinochet Was Right]

"hurr hurr ms bad oh i forgot the $ on m$"

I just upgraded my old pirated windows 7 PC to 10 the other day, expecting to buy a cheap gray market license for it. MS just validated it before I could do anything. And even if it wasn't, it wouldn't be a big loss, just a watermark and being unable to customize the UI. The thing is, Windows is the gateway service to get you in the ecosystem. It's the winrar marketing strategy, let everyone get in and turn a blind eye to the normies on the gray/black market so it stays as the default choice in people's minds, and charge for the advanced extras like Office, business licenses, Azure cloud, etc.

Some of you linuxfags are still butthurt about the IE6 days and cuntpasting the same memes from the time when you left windows behind, I get it, but Ballmer has been gone for years, Gates doesn't give a shit, and the failures of W8 and Phone were a well deserved slap to Satyr Nutella to get with the times. All these doomsday scenarios and boomer memes about obsolete MS apps no one remembers anymore you cry wolf about remind me of the endless spam mails saying "no, i swear this time they're gonna make msn messenger paid or close it!" But they would be suicidal if they did that, especially since they no longer hold the monopoly of pop culture brand recognition and prestige which was taken by Apple.

Honestly the true threat is in the hardware side with the eventual switch to ARM, now that will be the real lockdown architecture hell.

 

[Coolio55]

Its clear that google has no intention of releasing an android version for desktop, the android x86 scene is pitiful, and chromeOS is a glorified linux distro locked to hardware and meant to lure normalfags to google's web apps, little more than a terminal

What about fuchsia OS? It's an unholy mess to compile but the first version has already been released and word on the street is that google use it a lot internally.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Microsoft tried to lock Windows 10 down with a version called Windows 10 S. No one wanted it. I can see Microsoft being dumb enough to try it again.

 

[thx1138]

Honestly the true threat is in the hardware side with the eventual switch to ARM, now that will be the real lockdown architecture hell.

According to The Register, Apple's M1 chips were created with the same bad flaw that caused the Heartbleed vuln, so that's hilarious.

 

[Pinochet Was Right]

Microsoft tried to lock Windows 10 down with a version called Windows 10 S. No one wanted it. I can see Microsoft being dumb enough to try it again.

IIRC that was a poorly thought attempt at a Chromebook.
MS does better when they do their own thing on time instead of aping the forerunners too late.

 

[Cool Dog]

What about fuchsia OS? It's an unholy mess to compile but the first version has already been released and word on the street is that google use it a lot internally.

I seen google projects that were far further along and still got canned

 

[Gensou Hadou]

Microsoft tried to lock Windows 10 down with a version called Windows 10 S. No one wanted it. I can see Microsoft being dumb enough to try it again.

I still don't know why Microsoft thinks anyone would want a version of Windows that can't run .exe files. Aren't .exe files the only reason to use Windows over Linux, and that's rapidly becoming obsolete as Wine and Proton get more developed?

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

I still don't know why Microsoft thinks anyone would want a version of Windows that can't run .exe files. Aren't .exe files the only reason to use Windows over Linux, and that's rapidly becoming obsolete as Wine and Proton get more developed?

This is the same Microsoft that thought it would be a good idea to have a game console require a webcam to function.

 

[usernames can change now!]

So if the new Windows 10 meme is going to be rounded corners, are we one step closer to then admitting they fucked up and porting Aero to Windows 10?

 

[Firetruck9000]

Only gay computer nerds care about 'operating systems', whatever that means. A real man is content as long as he can use it to watch porn.

 

[Coolio55]

I seen google projects that were far further along and still got canned

Think about it though... Why is the flutter toolkit being shilled so hard these days?

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Only gay computer nerds care about 'operating systems', whatever that means. A real man is content as long as he can use it to watch porn.

A good operating system makes watching porn a better experience.

 

[Luminous47]

just bring back windows 7....

Please... 7 had everything good. Hopefully Windows 11(or 12, idk what how the fuck they number their OSes) is better than 10.

 

[Had]

How will they shoot themselves in the foot this time I'm dying to know.
I hope this update takes away more of my ability to control my own hardware adds new backdoors installs candy crush and forces me to update shit while I'm trying to do something.

 

[Some JERK]

Can we get some kind of "hardware driver green-card" so that windows will fucking stop deporting my manually installed drivers on every reboot and after every compulsory update that adds a GB of KB patches to fix 1,000 printer security flaws on my system that doesn't use a printer? K thanks, (I hate it in advance.) bye.

 

[Tookie]

I think you're all getting a bit wound up over something that will likely amount to nothing. This will end up being slightly larger than a typical Windows 10 fall update in terms of real changes. There will be updated branding to Windows 11 or something and a new Aero-like appearance to go with it, sounds like winget being included, maybe some other minor features. This is primarily marketing and they're going to keep going on the same iterative path on top of Windows 10 they've been doing.

I still don't know why Microsoft thinks anyone would want a version of Windows that can't run .exe files. Aren't .exe files the only reason to use Windows over Linux, and that's rapidly becoming obsolete as Wine and Proton get more developed?

The main use case for 10S (the S mode can actually be disabled and converted to regular Windows 10) was for netbooks and super-lightweight consumer devices to compete with Android or Chromebook devices. Exes are restricted because the expected usage is webapps being run in a version of Edge optimized for low-RAM and low-CPU usage.

 

[TheRedChair]

The smart money, for sure.

Windows 3.11: Decent release.
Windows 95: Shithouse.
Windows 98: Fixed the bugs, decent release.
Windows 2000/ME: Shithouse.
Windows XP: Probably the finest operating system they've ever made.
Windows Vista: Shithouse.
Windows 7: Probably the second finest operating system they've ever made.
Windows 8: Shithouse.
Windows 10: Fixed the shitty UI design (and bugs), decent release.
Windows ?: ______________

My counter. Since I've been doing this shit for 32+ years.

Windows 3.0 to 3.11: An excellent release. This was something that made Apple worry so hard.

Windows 95: Liked it

Windows 98: Liked it a hell of a lot. I was now completely free from Apple and their fucked world.

Windows 2000. This was my go to OS because it was ROCK SOLID. I used this OS for 10 years avoiding XP and Vista. I ran one machine for 8 straight years before my harddrive fucked me over so I had to reinstall and it was a snap.

Win ME was baaad. Worst OS since Dos 5.1. Dos 4.22 and Dos 6.0+ were the best on the Dos line that I've used before Windows 3.0

Windows XP: XP was unstable as fuck and has it roots to ME. It was not worth my time and effort in swtiching from Win-2000 to XP. It gets a fair rating with me as I saw some good thing out of it however I had to FUCKING REPAIR a lot of buggy XP machines because it was VIRUS HEAVEN to those wonderful people known as hackers.

Windows Vista: Sloppy and a hurried OS once all of the bugs were ironed out it was applied to Win7

Windows 7: In the end of 2010 I went to Win7 and I think it was the best OS Micro$haft ever created. I can use AMD CPUs Gen 1 and upwards as this was a power grab by tech companies to force people to upgrade their OS.

Windows 8: Like Vista in problems.

Windows 10: HATE THE FUCKER. too much information given to Micro$haft. Hated the GUI, reverted to a Win 7 look and found as "lite" version that I ultimately used. Fucking bloat as fuck.

Windows ?: ______________ If I get one free I might mess with it but I'm probably going Zorin Linux as I've got the feeling that eventually the components you used to buy freely (like MS word) will go subscription based. It will be more and more of a locked own in customization and more and more using your private data when you go online.

 

[TheSkoomer]

XP was unstable as fuck and has it roots to ME

3.1, 95, 98, ME, were all running on top of DOS. XP was not running on top of DOS.
XP had its roots in 2000, which had its roots in NT.
XP was just made shiny and flashy so stupid niggermonkeys would like it.

It's vulnerabilities were due to the fact that everyone and their grandma was using it, not just in a corporate environment anymore. People are stupid, they download stupid things, and end up having stupid problems as a result.