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> Windows 11 will be available through a free upgrade for eligible Windows 10 PCs and on new PCs beginning this holiday. Wow!
by DrNuke 5y ago
> Windows 11 will be available through a free upgrade for eligible Windows 10 PCs and on new PCs beginning this holiday.
Wow!
- coder543 5y ago> this holiday Which holiday? Christmas, Thanksgiving, New Year, Labor Day... Fourth of July? Maybe Halloween would be appropriate, given how scary any major Windows upgrade is to enterprise orgs. If they said "this holiday season", that would probably mean December timeframe, but they don't say that. They repeat this confusing reference later on: > The free upgrade will begin to roll out to eligible Windows 10 PCs this holiday and [...]
- DrBazza 5y agoSome American holiday presumably? Just like the video starting at "8am PDT" or whatever. Why can't they just a) commit to a date or month, and b) specify UTC time for their launches.
- witherk 5y agorofl, they mean December you pedant
- elyonerus 5y agoHoliday almost always means sometime mid-November to December.
- hulitu 5y agoWhere ?
- chrismorgan 5y agoThis is a particularly awful example of Americentrism. Going by season names is bad enough (this is a habit of Americans, Canadians and Europeans, which doesn’t work much beyond the northern hemisphere’s temperate and sub-arctic regions), especially for “fall”; but people in the rest of the world will normally eventually be able to figure it out. But this use of “holiday” is utterly unknown to most of the world and is nigh impossible to figure out without someone telling you what it is. As an Australian, I only learned about it last year, and my considered guess as to what it meant was wrong—I guessed somewhere in the middle of the year, when school is not operating during the summer. (We call the breaks between terms “school holidays”, most significantly of the summer break, which for us is mid–late December until the end of January or so.)
- CyberRabbi 5y agoThis was unclear to me as well. “This holiday” is not a phrase I’ve ever really heard in casual conversation or in the media register. I know the British “go on holiday” but that means vacation. Their PR/marketing department dropped the ball on this specific phrase. At the same time it seems that marketing department slip ups are common these days. If they mean Christmas time, I.e. December or winter, they should just say December or winter. That would be more clear.
- Biganon 5y ago"We don't need to sell you anything, your data is enough"
- cblconfederate 5y agoi won't rush, always wait a few years
- rambojazz 5y ago"Free upgrade" from Microsoft doesn't bode well. I wonder:"what's the catch?"