Windows 10: How Windows 10 may have gotten its name

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Probably since the numbering scheme has been something they've been doing more. Windows 95, 98, and 2000 came out their respective years. Windows 7 was the 7th major released of an NT based Windows version. Then there's 8, 8.1, and then finally 10. There's so other speculation that 10 is the 10th major release of a Windows version Microsoft has done, maybe there's some influence there?

I prefer the numbering over naming, 2000/ME, xp, and vista were the only three named versions. Every other one has been numbered.

 

My worry, all even versions of Windows have been horrible, strike that ah controversial. So Windows 10??? UGH!

Just saying.

 

Windows History (Windows 1.0 - Windows 8) - YouTube

 

Well my feeling tells me that computers are stuck right now, so not much improvement to expect....

the FSB is a pain where you do not want it. Multiply.... multiply is not enough to show improvement.

CPU are stuck at around 4 ghz unless ovefrclocking.

There is need for another solution to surpass performance.

Jeff

 

Eh it'll come. But with our consoles (for the next ~5 years) being so lowly compared to last gen, video games aren't going to improve too much graphically in the next few years. Obviously tech will push forward because of corporate using, but I think the next big tech will be Smartphones becoming good enough to run Windows, which is why MS is pushing all this hybrid touch-stuff on us now - they want to be first in the gate for hybrid touch/desktops.

Also Ghz means little. Pentium 4's were 3+Ghz and they were worse then a 1.8Ghz Core 2 Duo.

 

Have you not heard of Intel's Haswell-E Core i7 CPUs and the X99 chipset recently?

6+ GHz will all eight cores... Eight-core Core i7-5960X overclocked to 6GHz+ with all cores active | KitGuru

Finally a new chipset for enthusiasts: Intel® X99 Chipset Platform: Performance and Maximum Storage

If you're only looking to mainstream Haswell Core i5 and Z97, you will see lots of little bumps, but nothing major in the past few years. The workstation (Xeon) and enthusiast (Haswell-E/X99 now) lines are the ones to watch. Sometimes, as it was with the Z-series chipsets, the mainstream pushes further. That happened over the past couple of years. Now the enthusiast and workstation lines push a little further.

Quad channel DDR4 memory, eight cores capable of 4GHz each on air (thanks to lower power/heat with 14nm), SLI'd or CrossfireX GPUs, and a raid card on PCI Express 3.0 with latest gen SSDs screams. There's lots of room for growth, you just have to pay for it. So if you think PCs are stuck, that's true in the mainstream markets, but not at the bleeding edge.

 

This also dawned on me today, ios is being updated to 8.1 which is what Windows is currently at. Next year, it will be ios 9. Windows 9 would have launched next year. So if you were looking at devices and platforms, a newer tablet has a later version of a newer platform whereas Windows has been around for decades and is only just now at version 9 and mac os is basically still at mac os x.

So there could have also been the thinking of preempting apple and just jumping a version so when 2015 rolls out, the new iphone 6s will be running ios 9, android will be running at 5.1.3.2.2234.1.4 and Windows Phone will be running Windows 10, all PCs and tablets will be running Windows 10. Could be more marketing than what was realized...

 

95/98 series OS's identified themselves as version 4.* 95/98/me was only a commercial name. Win 10 will only be version 7, or maybe just 6.>3 (Win 8.1 is version 6.3), so I think this is apocryphal. Sorry I know the thread's stale, but it just caught my eye.

 

Rumors suggest the reason Microsoft skipped over "Windows 9" is because of Windows 95 - Neowin I really don't believe that. Decent programs check for major and minor build numbers...

Example of CorelDRAW 9 Script Editor

*Sad