I'll miss out the "Server" OSs like 2000, even though this was used by a lot of professionals it wasn't intended as a home OS. You skipped Windows NT 4/4.5 :) but I only ever saw that on servers. Windows 2000 on the other hand was a desktop operating system aimed at the enterprise market ...

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At this point, anyone is better than Cameron and co. With the greatest of respect to my Countryman and commander, I disagree. Looking at Miliband and Balls as the duo at the top frightens me enormously. I cannot see Obama or Merkel or even Hollande taking Miliband even remotely serious. If we are t...

Seeing many parallels. With GPUs and CPUs, it is often best to skip the first iterations of a new process and wait for the next. In a strange way this applies to Software company. It's known as the tick-tock. Or, more commonly, it's known as the odd Windows rule - i.e. always skip the even number W...

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It's quite clever. I imagine a lot of home users don't pay (or at the most use OEM keys with hardware they bought) and this will undoubtedly not apply to Enterprise users (who usually buy using one of a number of agreement types that rely on subscriptions) so the income drop is minimal but the publi...

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