{"id":17368,"date":"2015-05-08T22:34:14","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T21:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=17368"},"modified":"2015-05-08T22:34:14","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T21:34:14","slug":"no-more-windows-by-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=17368","title":{"rendered":"No More Windows By Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has announced that Windows 10 &#8211; the soon-to-be-released latest version &#8211; <a title=\"Windows 10: the Last Version of Windows?\" href=\"http:\/\/uk.pcmag.com\/operating-systems-and-platforms\/41776\/news\/windows-10-the-last-version-of-windows\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">will be the last to have a number associated with it<\/a>. In future, updates will happen on an on-going basis.<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 524px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 524\/296;background-image: none; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 5px 10px 5px 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"Windows 10\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/win10.jpg\" alt=\"Windows 10\" width=\"524\" height=\"296\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Over the years, we\u2019ve had about ten versions of Windows for PCs, with a further half dozen or so for business-oriented systems. I started out at home with Windows 3.1 (it originally came on a handful of floppy disks), then moved to Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows XP, Windows Vista, and I currently have Windows 7 on my PC and Windows 8 on my notebook.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s sad when I look back, but I actually queued on the day of release to get Windows 98! However, as technology has improved &#8211; and not just on the PC &#8211; it is now possible to get the latest version delivered to your door within hours of its release, so you don\u2019t need to be such an anorak any more.<\/p>\n<p>Technology on the PC, though, has made getting hold of OSes extremely simple. My internet connection with Virgin is currently knocking on 200Mbps and I have easily downloaded the disk image for the Windows 10 beta versions several times from Microsoft (the same goes for Linux and other large non-OS files). It takes just a few minutes each time. I\u2019ve been trying it out on a virtual machine using Oracle\u2019s VirtualBox for a few months, and I like it.<\/p>\n<p>The other thing to be aware of is that if you are already using Windows 7 or 8 (there is no Windows 9), Windows 10 will be a free upgrade for one year once it is released during the summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has announced that Windows 10 &#8211; the soon-to-be-released latest version &#8211; will be the last to have a number associated with it. In future, updates will happen on an on-going basis. Over the years, we\u2019ve had about ten versions of Windows for PCs, with a further half dozen or so for business-oriented systems. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-tech-related"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}