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Win9 will be FREE!
app103:
And then there is this: http://gizmodo.com/windows-10-may-have-gotten-its-name-because-of-lazy-cod-1641383218
Blames the skipping of 9 on "lazy coders" that detected any windows version beginning with 9 as win9x.
Sounds like someone was trolling to me, because any coder that has ever written code to detect Windows version knows that example code wouldn't never work, because Win95/98/ME version number begins with 4 and not 9. ;)
rgdot:
^ Sounds more like an April 1 article :P
TaoPhoenix:
Another funny theory from me: "Hey, if Apple started owning the world with OS X, can't we have a "10" too? Pleeze?"
:D
Deozaan:
How'd you get it to install? It crashes my VirtualBox VM during boot.-Deozaan (October 01, 2014, 05:38 PM)
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I installed a 32-bit copy in a 64-bit Windows 8.1 Hyper-V VM. From initial boot to desktop was just a bit over 5 minutes. While it runs just fine, I was rather disappointed that the sound card didn't work. Now I've learned to expect that out of a Linux distro ... But Windows on Windows??? Yeish!
-Stoic Joker (October 01, 2014, 06:53 PM)
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OK. I guess I'll try a 32-bit ISO. . .
Stoic Joker:
Sounds like someone was trolling to me-app103 (October 01, 2014, 08:33 PM)
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+1 - Definitely trolling:
--- Code: C++ ---typedef struct _OSVERSIONINFOEX { DWORD dwOSVersionInfoSize; DWORD dwMajorVersion; DWORD dwMinorVersion; DWORD dwBuildNumber; DWORD dwPlatformId; TCHAR szCSDVersion[128]; WORD wServicePackMajor; WORD wServicePackMinor; WORD wSuiteMask; BYTE wProductType; BYTE wReserved;} OSVERSIONINFOEX, *POSVERSIONINFOEX, *LPOSVERSIONINFOEX;
...That ain't no string search. ;)
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