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With the latest release of the JDK, Oracle has embarked upon a new Java versioning scheme. There has always been a disconnect between the branding of the Java product and the version of the underlying ...
JDK Enhancement Proposal (JEP) 223 is a new JDK versioning scheme to make it easier to distinguish major, minor, and security releases. It's simpler, more intuitive, easier to parse, and aligns ...
Microsoft “re-released” Windows 1.0 this week as part of a partnership with that Stranger Things show I have yet to binge on Netflix. While it’s fre ...
Interestingly enough, though, Microsoft has decided to bring Windows 1.0 back from the dead. Well, sort of.
Microsoft released its first version of the Windows operating system on this day, November 20, thirty years ago. On this occasion we present 30 interesting trivia facts about the OS ...
Even though Windows 1.0 was widely lampooned as vaporware – we'll get back to that later – it did what it set out to do – make personal computing affordable for the masses.
Some developers try and change the Java compiler setting within Eclipse from Java 1.5 to Java 1.8, but that only works temporarily. As soon as a new Maven build takes place, the JDK version reverts ...
Microsoft supported Windows 1.0 for 16 years, the longest of all versions of Windows, until December 31, 2001. The latest version, Windows 10, was released in 2015.
Posey's Tips & Tricks Microsoft Resurrects Windows 1.0 (Sort Of) In another example of "everything old is new again," you can now recapture that old-school Microsoft feeling without even a single ...