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From: RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Do Microsoft?s Copilot+ PCs Require Linux?
Date: Fri, 31 May 2024 05:07:45 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-05-30, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 30 May 2024 12:02:56 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:
>
>> On 2024-05-29, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
>>> On Wed, 29 May 2024 15:31:56 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:
>>>
>>>> I used Windows 2000. It's inferior to Cinnamon, or Mate or Xfce in my
>>>> opinion. (Of course these desktops have the advantage of running on
>>>> top of Linux.) But I can't quite understand why you run down Linux UIs
>>>> that look like the Windows' UI — what is it about Windows 2000's UI
>>>> that you think is somehow unique compared to other Windows desktops?
>>>
>>> Well 2000 was better than NT 4.0, the king of BSOD.
>> 
>> My younger brother, who's been a Windows' programmer for a long time
>> now,
>> hated to see Windows 2000 go away. I don't know anything about NT, never
>> used it. I guess I was using XP at that time.
>
> Originally there was going to be a NT 5.0 in 1998 but when the release was 
> pushed to Dec 1999 they decided Windows 2000 sounded cool, particularly 
> with the Y2K bug. 
>
> XP was built on the NT 5.1 kernel. We're now up to NT 10.0.  MS jumped 
> from 6.3 to 10.0.  Sometimes I think they like to confuse people :)  SQL 
> Server is the same but at least they didn't skip numbers. SQL Server 2022 
> identifies as 16.x. 
>
> It's interesting Windows 10, Windows 11, and the related server editions 
> all are the NT 10.0 kernel. 

I've basically lost track of Windows and its current releases. For example, 
I had no idea the NT kernel was still around or at 10.0. I guess the old 
Windows 95, 98, XP line ended with Me. (Another OS release Microsoft would 
probably like to forget.)

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