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A map sitting in my peripheral vision, in line with the hood of my car, is much more useful 99% of the time that the chatterbox function. 99.99% of the time it's also less annoying.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I think BMW now have a HUD which displays a few things including GPS. That could be useful.
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From the CP Daily News: Windows 10 to come in at least seven packages[^]
So, by the sounds of it, it looks like we're still gonna be dealing with crap like Home vs Pro vs Enterprise.
As a software developer, running the highest-level OS my MSDN license gives me access to on my primary dev machine (and a bunch more on test VMs), why is it that I still can't go buy some random cheap Windows machine at some random store, bring it home, turn it on, and do something simple like connect to it via RDP from my dev machine because Home Edition doesn't let you RDP into it? Or join my tiny home domain?
No, instead, I have to wipe that brand new machine and burn through one more of my MSDN OS licenses to do these simple things that should be built right into the OS.
If MS wants to have Windows 10 running on a billion devices by the end of this decade, they're missing an opportunity to move away from crap like this.
I certainly understand the need for different SKUs for a phone vs a desktop, but seriously, why even still have multiple versions to choose from for a freakin' desktop machine?
I can't be the only one thinking this.
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You're not. It's ridiculous - at most have 2 flavors - home and business. Besides, you have to remember that, however much they bitch and moan and deny it, Microsloth are, in actuality, a fancy-shmancy marketing company that pushes a particular brand of software and no more.
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Karel Čapek wrote: at most have 2 flavors
I think they should have:
1 desktop version
1 mobile version
I'd rather be phishing!
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Karel Čapek wrote: Microsloth are, in actuality, a fancy-shmancy marketing company that pushes a particular brand of software and no more.
What the hell? By that logic every company is marketing company and nothing more.
Company that makes a product, tries to sell it, outrageous! Call the press!
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It was meant to be a tongue-in-cheek observation.
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Microsoft really wants people to upgrade to Windows 10.
People still love Windows 7 though, so they must've thought "we need a 7 somewhere!"
And here you have it. You and I, techies, know it makes no sense, but we're techies and we'll want to upgrade anyway.
The majority of the people have no idea though, and all they hear is "Windows 10 comes in 7 different flavors"!
That's the most logical explanation I could come up with... 
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They could market it as Windows 7+3 
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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Sander Rossel wrote: That's the most logical explanation I could come up with...
Sadly, that explanation probably makes more sense than any kind of marketing-babble they may have used.
Software Zen: delete this;
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You may hire me if you ever need some marketing talk!
I'm better than any marketing Microsoft has to offer according to this guy[^]! 
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Sander Rossel wrote: I'm better than any marketing Microsoft has to offer according to this guy[^]!
I've never met you, don't know what you do and haven't clicked on the link yet.
I also think you are better than any marketing Microsoft has to offer.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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Thanks!
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Hey, wait a minute...! 
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If you write the name of someone you hate on your own body every day, then if you die - no matter how - they will be a suspect...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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You can also write the name of someone you hate on someone elses body and then.. 
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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...it'll be in your handwriting...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I copy the loophole you'll come up with when being told the same
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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Unless you die in the shower and it washes the ink right off
Better not take that risk and get a tattoo!
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So how many names are there written on your body? You can round it to the nearest 10 if you like.
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11,460,320
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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You must write quite small or perhaps you have a lot of skin
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I would not blame Windows or Microsoft Office for this. They are still in beta.  You know what type of software is in beta. The one that doesn't run, but we still want to share the executable. 
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Since memory only constitutes part of the System Resources, articles like the following come to mind:
http://www.robertwloch.net/2011/08/10000-gdi-objects-ought-to-be-enough-for-anybody/[^]
"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life." - John Lennon
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