news Canadian News
Good Morning Guest | login or register
  • Home
    • Canadian News
    • Popular News
    • News Voting Log
    • News Images
  • Forums
    • Recent Topics Scroll
    •  
    • Politics Forums
    • Sports Forums
    • Regional Forums
  • Content
    • Achievements
    • Canadian Content
    • Famous Canadians
    • Famous Quotes
    • Jokes
    • Canadian Maps
  • Photos
    • Picture Gallery
    • Wallpapers
    • Recent Activity
  • About
    • About
    • Contact
    • Link to Us
    • Points
    • Statistics
  • Shop
  • Register
    • Gold Membership
  • Archive
    • Canadian TV
    • Canadian Webcams
    • Groups
    • Links
    • Top 10's
    • Reviews
    • CKA Radio
    • Video
    • Weather

Coming Soon: Windows 8

Canadian Content
20715news upnews down

Coming Soon: Windows 8


Tech | 207154 hits | Apr 04 12:28 pm | Posted by: Scape
23 Comment

Newser) � It seems like only yesterday that Microsoft released Windows 7�and indeed, most of us haven't gotten around to upgrading to that version�but already, Windows 8 is nearly upon us. Web forums were filled with news and rumors last week after

Comments

  1. by avatar saturn_656
    Mon Apr 04, 2011 7:32 pm
    It's a little soon for a another new OS methinks.

  2. by avatar Scape
    Mon Apr 04, 2011 7:40 pm
    China's hackers have made it a must.

    Ever since the company's Chinese operations were hacked in January, it's been trying to tighten up security, and the Microsoft OS is the first casualty, workers tell the Financial Times . �We're not doing any more Windows,� said one, �It's a security effort.� New recruits can choose to work on a Mac or a PC running Linux, and the CIO must give special permission before employees can get a new Windows machine.

  3. by avatar saturn_656
    Mon Apr 04, 2011 7:48 pm
    What Microsoft should be doing is making the current OS more secure (or not releasing software so easily compromised).

  4. by avatar Public_Domain
    Mon Apr 04, 2011 8:29 pm
    :|

  5. by avatar dino_bobba_renno
    Mon Apr 04, 2011 8:32 pm
    shhhhh#&* I just got Windows 7 :lol:

  6. by avatar saturn_656
    Mon Apr 04, 2011 8:35 pm
    "Mr_Canada" said
    Aw, you guys don't like all your electronics being obsolete within 3 months?



    Just b/c MS comes out with a newer version, doesn't mean the older one has outlived its usefulness.

    I have four PC's in the house. Two are Windows 7, one is Linux, and the other is XP Home.

    The XP PC will run damn near anything the Win 7 PC's will.

  7. by avatar BartSimpson  Gold Member
    Mon Apr 04, 2011 8:37 pm
    More likely it'll just be W7 SP2.

  8. by avatar Public_Domain
    Mon Apr 04, 2011 8:45 pm
    :|

  9. by avatar Public_Domain
    Mon Apr 04, 2011 8:48 pm
    :|

  10. by avatar BartSimpson  Gold Member
    Mon Apr 04, 2011 10:22 pm
    "Mr_Canada" said
    More likely it'll just be W7 SP2.

    Some would go farther and say it's really Vista SP3

    Vista is to W7 as 2000 was to XP.

    Similar flavor but different enough to be distinctive. YOu see it in some surprising ways like in BitLocker and in how W7 allows you to partition a drive on the fly - which is near miraculous to old farts like me.

  11. by avatar saturn_656
    Mon Apr 04, 2011 10:24 pm
    "BartSimpson" said
    More likely it'll just be W7 SP2.

    Some would go farther and say it's really Vista SP3

    Vista is to W7 as 2000 was to XP.

    Similar flavor but different enough to be distinctive. YOu see it in some surprising ways like in BitLocker and in how W7 allows you to partition a drive on the fly - which is near miraculous to old farts like me.

    Was your first computer powered by the Intel 8086 CPU Bart? :lol:

  12. by avatar BartSimpson  Gold Member
    Mon Apr 04, 2011 10:38 pm
    "saturn_656" said

    Was your first computer powered by the Intel 8086 CPU Bart? :lol:


    Nope. My first computer that I owned was a Gateway running Win 98.

    Around 2000 I bought an Altair at an estate auction and it does have an 8080 and it actually works. 'Boot' does not at all apply to an Altair.

    This is kind of funny to younger folks...the first computer I worked on was a Digital that was the size of a small car. That was followed by a Wang when I consulted for Raytheon.

    That was back in the day when Route 128 around Boston was the heart of the technology sector and Apple and IBM were just on the fringe with developing personal computers.

  13. by avatar saturn_656
    Mon Apr 04, 2011 10:47 pm
    "BartSimpson" said
    This is kind of funny to younger folks...the first computer I worked on was a Digital that was the size of a small car. That was followed by a Wang when I consulted for Raytheon.

    That was back in the day when Route 128 around Boston was the heart of the technology sector and Apple and IBM were just on the fringe with developing personal computers.


    Not so much funny, just hard to wrap your mind around.

    When I was eight, my family got its first PC, with a 386 CPU.

  14. by avatar Freakinoldguy
    Tue Apr 05, 2011 12:00 am
    "saturn_656" said
    This is kind of funny to younger folks...the first computer I worked on was a Digital that was the size of a small car. That was followed by a Wang when I consulted for Raytheon.

    That was back in the day when Route 128 around Boston was the heart of the technology sector and Apple and IBM were just on the fringe with developing personal computers.


    Not so much funny, just hard to wrap your mind around.

    When I was eight, my family got its first PC, with a 386 CPU.


    You're one lucky guy. :mrgreen:

    When I was eight, I got my first stone tablet with Aramaic script on it. 8O


    But seriously, I've used DOS 5, DOS 6.1, Windows for Workgroups 3.11, Windows 98, Windows XP and windows 7 and to be quite honest with you guys, if they bring out another version of Windows I'm gonna skip it and wait till windows 9 arrives since Microsoft seems to screw up every second version of their operating systems, which may be their way of doing beta testing. :D



view comments in forum
Page 1 2

You need to be a member of CKA and be logged into the site, to comment on news.

  • Login
  • Register (free)
 Share  Digg It Bookmark to del.icio.us Share on Facebook


Share on Facebook Submit page to Reddit
CKA About |  Legal |  Advertise |  Sitemap |  Contact   canadian mobile newsMobile

All logos and trademarks in this site are property of their respective owner.
The comments are property of their posters, all the rest © 2025 by Canadaka.net