Hello Alan!   
      
      
   Oct 01 12:23 14, Alan Zisman wrote to Roger Nelson:   
      
    AZ> On 2014-10-01, 5:54 AM, Roger Nelson -> Paul Hayton wrote:   
    RN>> On Wed Oct-01-2014 20:04, Paul Hayton (3:770/1) wrote to All:   
      
    PH>>> So nine is not to be and a beta for 10 is about to begin - what do   
    PH>>> you think of the announcements made by Microsoft so far?   
      
    RN>> I read somewhere that 9 will be out for beta testing sometime in   
    RN>> February, 2015.  I haven't read anything about 10, but I have missed    
    RN>> a lot of reading recently.  I haven't read anything at the M$ site    
    RN>> beyond what is there about Windows 9.   
      
    AZ> No Windows 9 - despite what we've read up until now. Yesterday, MS    
    AZ> announced that   
    AZ> the next version will be called Windows 10. There are a lot of    
    AZ> snickers about that - about how perhaps MS is thinking either:   
    AZ> -- people will think it must be two generations more advanced than    
    AZ> Windows 8 OR   
    AZ> -- people will confuse it with Apple's OS X (pronounced OS Ten, not    
    AZ> OS    
    AZ> 'X') - which will be releasing its own ver 10 some time this Fall.   
      
    AZ> One of the US TV news networks tweated that Microsoft has gotten the    
    AZ> jump on Apple by releasing iOS 10.   
      
    AZ> You can join the MS Technical Preview program (becoming a 'technical    
    AZ> insider') and try out preview releases of Windows 10 at -   
      
    AZ> http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/preview-coming-soon   
      
   I have an account setup already and told the system I forgot my password and   
   after entering my pw, am able to get to a page that reads "Enter code"   
   (7-digits) and I have no idea what that is.   
      
      
   Regards,   
      
   Roger   
      
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