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Windows NT stood for "New Technology". Whenever I see Windows RT, I think "Reduced Technology".
by gvb 14y ago
Windows NT stood for "New Technology".
Whenever I see Windows RT, I think "Reduced Technology".
- mmariani 14y agoAlso, Retarded Technology fits well. Jokes aside, I won't be developing for the next Windows because WinRT development still looks like a painful process. Edit: fix freaking iPad auto correct typos.
- gvnonor 14y agoWinRT development is actually quite pleasant. You can put together a decent app in very little time using just html and javascript. Deciding what to do with the large screen real estate is challenging though. There's no chrome and the entire screen needs to be filled in with an app's components. Without a designer working, it's very difficult to put together a nice looking app.
- mmariani 14y agoDecent is not enough, it has to be awesome. At least according to my standards. :) On the design challenge I'll give you a tip. Fill the screen with content. If you don't have enough of it, create new views. I'll give you an example: imagine the main output for your app is some tabbed data; instead of showing as it is plot some graphs and add some buttons to flip the view to reveal the data. The key is to think visually.
- cryptoz 14y agoThe Windows 2000 boot screen said "Built on NT Technology". I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw that. So annoying.
- freehunter 14y agoOfficially, NT doesn't stand for anything (just like the RT in Windows RT doesn't stand for anything). One of the NT developers said that it was derived from the target processor, the Intel N-Ten chip. Microsoft marketing declared it "New Technology", but that quickly went away and the official word is that it's just a couple letters thrown together. The "Built on NT technology" boot screen does not mean "Built on New Technology technology".
- rahoulb 14y agoI'd heard that "Windows NT" was one step on from VMS (as most of the original NT team had worked on VMS)
- tarabukka 14y agoWindows NT is an entirely different codebase to the MSDOS based Windows 9x series; it isn't simply a marketing name. Comparable to Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X.
- freehunter 14y agoOf course NT is completely different, I apologize if my comment made it seem that I was arguing that point. NT is the name for the latest kernel, but New Technology was a marketing term used to describe the reasoning for the name. In actuality, NT stands for nothing officially. New Technology was just what the marketers decided on, for a limited period of time.
- mahmud 14y agoI read it as "realtime".
- jmaygarden 14y agoReal-time was my first thought as well. I'm assuming the RT derives from run-time instead.