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From
17/08/2015 05:13:25
Dragan Nedeljkovich (Online)
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
 
 
To
17/08/2015 04:35:28
Lutz Scheffler
Lutz Scheffler Software Ingenieurbüro
Dresden, Germany
General information
Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Other
Title:
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP2
OS:
Windows XP SP3
Network:
Windows XP
Database:
Visual FoxPro
Application:
Desktop
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01623437
Message ID:
01623482
Views:
90
>>>What do we do with the thousands of apps out there still running on VFP when a future Win10 update "breaks" VFP and the apps no longer run?
>>
>>As Microsoft has announced that Windows 10 is the last major release, this won't happen.
>
>My idea was that it was to be read as the last major release of windows Wouldn't you read: We will invent a new name for the next OS? (Since they skip borders around forms now it's hard to talk about a window anyway.)

They were always great about misnomers, should have trademarked them. Quick list, as I can remember them:

"Windows explorer" never explored a window. It just listed what's in a folder.

Its reincarnation, "file explorer", can't open any file. For each file it still requires an opener, i.e. an application for that file extension.

"Internet options" never gave you any options about the internet itself, it was just changing settings of your IE.

Anything "visual" doesn't mean it's for your eyes (because you needed eyes for the previous stuff too), it was to mean "uses pixels, not character mode". They never had any "audio" or "olfactory" line of products to distinguish from.

In Skype, snapshots you make are called "video call snapshot", even though they are just photos, containing no video at all.

back to same old

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