“But these go to 11”: Microsoft, which is preparing the next version of its operating system, replacing Windows 8, says it will skip over the No. 9 and name the new system Windows 10 to emphasize the system’s focus on mobile devices and the Internet. After some users complained about Windows 8’s changes to navigating the system, Microsoft said it would restore some of Windows 7’s look to Windows 10.
Which means that Windows 10 is a combination of Windows 8 and 7, which actually would make it Windows 15, but adjusted for marketing nonsense, you subtract the actual version number 9, which gives you Windows 6, which was never called 6 but was called Vista. Or you go to the Apple store.
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Michelle’s calling AlarmForce: Secret Service Director Julia Pierson, called before Congress to answer questions about a man who recently stormed the White House grounds and made it inside the executive mansion with a knife, acknowledged her agency’s shortcomings and said it would not happen again.
She’s moving the extra key that was kept under the flowerpot to a secret location.
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The time has come, the walrus said: About 35,000 Pacific walrus came ashore on a beach 700 miles northwest of Anchorage. In the past the giant marine mammals would gather on sea ice, but climate change has reduced the amount of summer sea ice.
We suggest to the walrus that they might get their message across quicker if they swim up the Potomac and beach themselves at the Tidal Basin in Washington, D.C.
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