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Retlaw 14-04-2013 22:08
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Originally Posted by Restless (Post 1053260)
I admit to some copy and pasting :D

Lol would love to see it
Still got 3.1 on big floppies.

gpick24 14-04-2013 22:11
Re: Windows XP The Countdown Begins
 
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Originally Posted by Retlaw (Post 1053280)
Still got 3.1 on big floppies.
Perhaps that`s a thread for the 18+ section.

jaysay 15-04-2013 08:12
Re: Windows XP The Countdown Begins
 
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Originally Posted by Neil (Post 1053238)
What about MS-DOS? - We still have 5 PC's at work running MS-DOS on production machines. They were only installed about 6 years ago

Windows 3.1 is still running a production machine where I used to work

95 was a big leap from 3.1 - it hid DOS better :D
95 was on my first computer, was it 1994 or 1995 Neil:confused:

jaysay 15-04-2013 08:15
Re: Windows XP The Countdown Begins
 
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Originally Posted by Retlaw (Post 1053280)
Still got 3.1 on big floppies.
I got rid of dozens of floppies last year, no point in keeping um if there's nout to read um on:D

cashman 15-04-2013 09:05
Re: Windows XP The Countdown Begins
 
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Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 1053316)
95 was on my first computer, was it 1994 or 1995 Neil:confused:
Seems funny to me if 95 was 94.?:D

Neil 15-04-2013 09:34
Re: Windows XP The Countdown Begins
 
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Originally Posted by Retlaw (Post 1053280)
Still got 3.1 on big floppies.
No you haven't you have it on 5 1/4" floppy diska, they are small. 8" were the big floppy disks :p

There is still a box of new 8" floppy disks at my Dads. There might be a drive for them as well if you're in need of borrowing it :D

Neil 15-04-2013 09:35
Re: Windows XP The Countdown Begins
 
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Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 1053316)
95 was on my first computer, was it 1994 or 1995 Neil:confused:
Wiki says August 24th 1995

jaysay 15-04-2013 10:00
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Originally Posted by Neil (Post 1053335)
Wiki says August 24th 1995
I can only remember Start me up by the Stones, was used in TV Ads:)

claytonx 26-04-2013 17:42
Re: Windows XP The Countdown Begins
 
Windows Eight to introduce a start button, bottom left hand corner.

jaysay 27-04-2013 08:44
Re: Windows XP The Countdown Begins
 
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Originally Posted by claytonx (Post 1055705)
Windows Eight to introduce a start button, bottom left hand corner.
I rang Dell about 8 some months ago and they inserted one for me, they just beat accyman to it as he was going to do it for me:D, using the button helps you to bypass 8 and have had no problems since

Gordon Booth 08-05-2013 18:25
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Good job I didn't buy a new PC with Windows 8, here comes Windows Blue.
How come a company as big as this can't get it right first time? Or even second time?
Vista, Windows 8, if Blue is a mess-once is an accident, twice a coincidence, three times is sabotage.

maxthecollie 08-05-2013 21:30
Re: Windows XP The Countdown Begins
 
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Originally Posted by gordon booth (Post 1057936)
good job i didn't buy a new pc with windows 8, here comes windows blue.
How come a company as big as this can't get it right first time? Or even second time?
Vista, windows 8, if blue is a mess-once is an accident, twice a coincidence, three times is sabotage.
o.m.g.

entwisi 08-05-2013 21:31
Re: Windows XP The Countdown Begins
 
Have you any idea how many lines of code it takes to write an operating system? it's billions so you try suddenly rewriting huge swathes of it and ensuring it all plus together. also its not that it's unstable, just that the company took a decision to try and shift as users were looking to move to touch based. Like coke they made a mistake and are changing back. much that people know I don't like Microsoft sometimes you have to admit you screwed up and I respect that they are doing. I'll respect them more If all existing win 8 users get an upgrade to blue for free...

accyman 09-05-2013 00:08
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people should have got a free upgrade from vista to win 7

vista was almost as bad as ME

Gordon Booth 09-05-2013 14:48
Re: Windows XP The Countdown Begins
 
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Originally Posted by entwisi (Post 1057955)
Have you any idea how many lines of code it takes to write an operating system? it's billions so you try suddenly rewriting huge swathes of it and ensuring it all plus together. also its not that it's unstable, just that the company took a decision to try and shift as users were looking to move to touch based. Like coke they made a mistake and are changing back. much that people know I don't like Microsoft sometimes you have to admit you screwed up and I respect that they are doing. I'll respect them more If all existing win 8 users get an upgrade to blue for free...
Having tried to write programmes on a Spectrum and never got one to work, I can't imagine how writing an OS or one of these modern games can be done.

That's not my point. No-one is saying it doesn't work, it's just that millions of users don't like it and find it hard work.
Don't they do any customer testing to get reactions?
Or is it 'Microsoft knows best. Learn to love it'?
Millions of us(most of us) don't have touch screens and probably don't want or need them. Were we all forgotten?
It's OK for you experts, some of us struggle to switch on.


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