Timeline for Merge [tag:windows-nt] → [tag:windows]
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| Feb 15, 2012 at 12:21 | comment | added | Tamara Wijsman | It would help if there were actual statistics on this. | |
| Feb 15, 2012 at 4:44 | comment | added | Psycogeek | What? what is it that we are not mostly agreeing with? Answering a Windows XP question with a Windows 7 answer only has a precentage chance of being right. I have found situations where a mere upgrade to the same 7 , changes the entire way that they handle memory itself. Providing for another layer of web info that is 50% incorrect for some situations, depending on just an update :-O . now your saying that defining the OS not nessisary? In other areas defining the service pack used, is helpfull in diagnosing problems. | |
| Feb 15, 2012 at 4:12 | comment | added | Tamara Wijsman | Tags are meant to be searchable and as an indication to what a question applies for people browsing around, they mostly mean nothing to the user. Asking for tags is like asking to properly categorize the question in the system, if his question applies to multiple Windows family products he'd be better off to categorize it as such if he wants more attention (and to help people in that tag). Anyhow, I'm not going into this further; but feel free to convince others... :) | |
| Feb 15, 2012 at 3:56 | comment | added | Psycogeek | @TomWijsman Trying to change it now. The use of arbitrary tags , could only be reduced by having specific ones, we got that. Can't get rid of the way the arbitrary one was used now (to much work). I can see where there ARE situations were tossing up an arbitrary "windows" Duhh tag would be usefull. But most times it would be better that the users define thier question, part of that can be to define the tag. | |
| Feb 15, 2012 at 3:50 | comment | added | Psycogeek | @TomWijsman Even if we go back 2 years when this site was started , telling any Tech "its windows" would say Nothing to them. I dont doubt that it would be used, and created, and will still be used endlessly, but walk into even the lowest tech location, and when asking What is the OS, even the consumers tell WHAT os. The tech isnt going to proceed to put windows server on the computer and hand it back and say Fixed :-) | |
| Feb 15, 2012 at 3:45 | comment | added | Tamara Wijsman | Hugely really means "some big changes" though, but the basic fundamentals (as well as compatibility) remained pretty much solid over the year. Many software works for the majority of OSes, which is why a windows tag fits better in many occasions than a specific product or operating system. If you haven't seen my answer then please read it as part of it is a response to yours. If you however have a good reason not to have such broad tags, feel free to elaborate. But I'm just saying that we've had this second-most popular tag for such long, so it's hard to change it... | |
| Feb 15, 2012 at 3:38 | comment | added | Psycogeek | I thought I covered that. The use of the tag Windows, only defines some MS product, it does not say Which one, and they are all Hugely different. | |
| Feb 15, 2012 at 3:06 | comment | added | Tamara Wijsman | If you're stating that the second most used tag on the site is bad after this long (and that has been previously discussed), you're going to have to come up with a way more convincing statement than to say that it is meaningless because of not being an OS. | |
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