On 10/1/14 14:27, Alan Zisman wrote:   
      
   > 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 a   
   >   RN> lot of reading recently.  I haven't read anything at the M$ site beyond   
   >   RN> what is there about Windows 9.   
      
   > No Windows 9 - despite what we've read up until now. Yesterday, MS announced   
   > that   
   > the next version will be called Windows 10. There are a lot of snickers about   
   > that - about how perhaps MS is thinking either:   
   > -- people will think it must be two generations more advanced than   
   > Windows 8 OR   
   > -- people will confuse it with Apple's OS X (pronounced OS Ten, not OS   
   > 'X') - which will be releasing its own ver 10 some time this Fall.   
      
   > One of the US TV news networks tweated that Microsoft has gotten the jump on   
   > Apple by releasing iOS 10.   
      
   > You can join the MS Technical Preview program (becoming a 'technical   
   insider')   
   > and try out preview releases of Windows 10 at -   
      
   > http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/preview-coming-soon   
      
   I saw an interesting article that stated the reason MS jumped to Windows    
   10 is that 8.1 was the ninth iteration (or was that ninth disaster?).   
      
   I may sign up for the preview when Yosemite is released. Running one    
   beta (on a separate bootable hard drive) is enough for now.   
      
   Did you get your iPhone 6+ yet?   
      
   Regards from Texas.   
      
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