Windows 10: Should Windows 10 be called Windows 10?

Slartybart,
There are already applications using the cloud. Panada Virus is a good example of a cloud application. If almost everything operates in the cloud you wouldn't need a computer. You would need a device to access the cloud. The only secuirty you would have to worry about is the device to & from the cloud and to your printer or offline storage drive. How this applies to businesses and governments would be a little harder.

Wynona,

I never said the operating system would become subscription based, just Microsoft cloud might. As I said above Panada Virus is a good example of a cloud application. If Microsoft is thinking of subscription based for the cloud. It will properly have different package levels. I think Microsoft wants to be like Hulu. Hulu provides some stuff for free, the rest is subscription based.

 

IE11 is In the cloud with "office on line" ,the link below of go to bing.com
https://office.live.com/start/defaul..._id=O16_BingHP

 

Well...... according to the puzzle answer re new build date, the NEW Windows will obviously be called


Windows Octal 12





Gabriel Aul @GabeAul · 2h2 hours ago

Answer to the puzzle:I tweeted it at 10:02 PMGo-live target was 10:00AM today718mins later718 is 1316 in Octal
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So-called cloud apps still have a local component. These are relatively new applications.

The cloud service mainly houses the data for the local app to hook into and manipulate. In the case of Panda, it makes sense to keep the HUGE database in the cloud and access it from the local app with local defs (it wouldn't be very efficient to send every file to the cloud for analysis). The hybrid approach will be around for a while.

edit: and when people start complaining that their data can't be reliably accessed, we'll go back to decentralized computing.

 

Aha! Have you tried the free preview Office?

Did you notice that some features require purchase of Office 365? This is the marketing hook, the additional revenue stream I spoke of. I don't know if the same hooks are in Office online, but I wouldn't be surprised for any company to offer a trimmed down version of an application in order to sell their flagship version of the product. It's not really a new marketing ploy ... get the user hooked on the free version and increase the chances that they'll buy the full fledged product(s)

 

Aha! Have you tried the free preview Office?

Did you notice that some features require purchase of Office 365? This is the marketing hook, the additional revenue stream I spoke of. I don't know if the same hooks are in Office online, but I wouldn't be surprised for any company to offer a trimmed down version of an application in order to sell their flagship version of the product. It's not really a new marketing ploy ... get the user hooked on the free version and increase the chances that they'll buy the full fledged product(s) don't really use it ,just did a bit with powerpoint and word ,and save it to my computer ,with out any issues

and I have not tried the free preview of office yet

 

Same here, just poked around a bit, click, change, test, see, do What - I need a subscription to do that - oh I get it now *Wink

Still, you can do things with the apps, it's not that they're brain dead viewers only.

Bill
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Ah, I see where I went "off into the cloud" when I said, "If Microsoft were to make Windows in the Cloud a subscription, I would be one of the first to abandon ship and look to alternatives."

Sure there would be different package levels, but I'm thinking it would be a practical nightmare, what with so many variables. The only subscription I have, or am likely to have is Office 365, and that only because I want and need it on all my computers. As to the tablets, I would use Office there only if I absolutely had to because Office for Androids is definitely crippled.

If Windows is ever served up by the Cloud, it would almost have to be as a service. I guess? I'm venturing off into territory I know nothing about. Gimme my DVD even as an ISO and I'm happy.

 

I don't like that name at all, at all, at all!

 

Aha! Have you tried the free preview Office?

Did you notice that some features require purchase of Office 365? This is the marketing hook, the additional revenue stream I spoke of. I don't know if the same hooks are in Office online, but I wouldn't be surprised for any company to offer a trimmed down version of an application in order to sell their flagship version of the product. It's not really a new marketing ploy ... get the user hooked on the free version and increase the chances that they'll buy the full fledged product(s) When I was testing Office for Android Tablets, it's free for tablets 7" to 10.1", but you have to have Office 365 for anything larger than a 10.1" tablet. Why that cutoff was made, I haven't a clue, but there were oh so many complaints, especially from those with 10.5" tablets. And yes, Office for Android is definitely trimmed down; has to be what with tablets having much less storage than desktops or laptops.

I went to the Office 365 page and had a look, since it's been awhile since I subscribed. Here's what you get for the Home edition: Compare Microsoft Office Products

Oh, and by the way, I understand anyone can apply for the Preview of Office 365, but you gotta have a subscription before you can do much of anything.

 

I don't like that name at all, at all, at all! I agree, agree, agree! Still friends?

 

I don't like that name at all, at all, at all! I agree, agree, agree! Still friends? Of course! Why wouldn't we be?

 

I don't like that name at all, at all, at all! I agree, agree, agree! Still friends? Of course! Why wouldn't we be? Totally a rhetorical question.... I'll send you a Friends Request,,,,

Thought on the 10.1" cut-off for Office.... they're probably zigging Google!

 

Octal ???

I think it was a simple decimal conversion, that's all.

 

Just a play on what Gabe Aul tweeted this morning on the puzzle answer. Nothing more.