Windows 10. 29 July, the Actual, real, full version, not one of the builds that I and 1.5 million other "Insiders" (Microsoft's appellation for it's Beta squad this time around) is shipping. "Shipping" being the word for Downloading the 3GB file to your machine. Woe to those with pathetically inadequate wifi links (ie: SFR here in Lignieres, Cher, France) as their so-called "connection" to the world-wide web aka "Internet". 3 GB will take me about 4 hours to accomplish at an average of 2mb/sec or 12 MB/min (if I'm a Very good boy). The likelihood that I can have a full ON 4 hr experience on this damned SFR connection is improbable at best, the drop-out rate is about 4 -8 per HOUR! This will take a while for sure! More like a day! We're at 36% now...and still up! A miracle! Anyway, I've been testing this version of Windows 10 since last November. I have LOTS of experience doing this sort of testing, goes all the way back to the first version of Windows software (Windows 1.0) in 1985. Version 1.0, bought it at a local computer shop in spring of 1986 in San Carlos, CA. though as there was no "Insider" program in those rough and tumble days of the early PC age. It came not on a CD or DVD but a large number of floppy disks. The average PC at the time ran DOS (Disk Operating System) and there were a few companies making versions of the same. Programs (Apps as they are now named) were few and far between at first (1978-1985), then the deluge. The whole history of Windows is laid out here, have a look! (47% and counting).
http://www.computerhope.com/history/windows.htm (shortened version)
and this link too:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Microsoft_Windows
http://www.computerhope.com/history/windows.htm (shortened version)
and this link too:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Microsoft_Windows
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