Did we all just witness Windows start to die?

[commodorejohn]

Android uses the GNU userland, I use it every day.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but according to what I read, it doesn't have the full set of GNU libraries - and it certainly doesn't have X or any X desktop environment.

[commodorejohn]

Hmm, really? And you didn't have to manually install an X server?

Guess someone needs to update that page...

[commodorejohn]

You know that there are other parts of the world than western Europe, right?

[commodorejohn]

What's so hard about it? It does it for you with two finger taps!

That's what she said!

[commodorejohn]

Microsoft called the Windows 8 interface "metro" in a couple of press releases over a year and a half ago, it was a code name for the design language they used to make the Windows 8 interface.  It's like calling Windows 7 "Vienna."

They never bandied about beta names like "Chicago" and "Vienna" the way they ballyhooed "Metro." (The closest they got before that was "Longhorn," which only people who cared about Vista pre-release bothered with.) The reason they dropped "Metro" was because a minor lawsuit gave them a good excuse for escaping the fantastically terrible word-of-mouth it'd gotten - only it didn't work, and "Metro" stuck. Just a shame Metro the thing stuck with it... :/