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Previous discussion was archived at User talk:Codename Lisa/Archive 1 on 2016-01-07.

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[https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q206904&diff=583013967&oldid=582979054] But why? It is heavily used now and I don't understand why it can't?

Hi.

Let me start with some background.

There is a concept called threshold of information usefulness. Or maybe threshold of information delivery usefulness. (It is my native tongue and translating it is a bit hard.) For example, people would be very irritated and confused if you introduce them as a "human with two eyes and two ears". They'd rather hear "engineer from CalTech", "president of the Republic of Rearendia" or "front gate security guard", which already imply human. But that was an extreme example. I myself had an experience with a person who lengthened speech a great deal by saying "Now, here, we have two distinct options from which to select/courses of actions" every time a binary choice came along. Giving the choices off the bat was far shorter.

In case of computer programs, "free software" is extremely vague. Is it permissive free (e.g. BSD license), obligatory free (e.g. CC-BY-SA) or obsessively free (GPLv3)? (If you don't know what I am talking about, you might want to read about the "freedom or death" clause of the GPL on Wikipedia and controversies surrounding its use along other software.) Add the fact that most people today still think "free software" is gratis instead of libre.

To deliver information efficiently, it is best to add a genre of software in the "instance of" property and abandon the "freedom" intricacies to the "license" property where it would deliver it accurately, succinctly and without bias.

Resolved

Which OS do you have? I suspect that page https://windows.microsoft.com/windows-7 dynamically shows different content according to your OS. Because I definitely see help for Windows 7 (I have Windows 7). I can provide a screenshot if you want.

Very interesting. Actually, I do have Windows 10. And it shows Windows 10. Makes sense.

So, use this link instead: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/products/windows?os=windows-7

It is part of constraints

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Well I think google.com/chrome isn't that hard to remeber, and besides, the value is the official website and not a redirect

Both are official because both are owned by Google. Besides, as a Wikipedian, I hold little value for being official. "chrome.com" is shorter and that's all the value I see.

You made your point, though google.com/chrome is more commonly advertised as google chrome's main website (in search engines results, google chrome's blog, etc) chrome.com does also get you there eventually but can it be considered as google chrome's website ?

Many years ago, I had this very same discussion with someone who contended that web addresses without www have less value than those with www because www is the client name in an FQDN. Nowadays, nobody even types www anymore.

Also what construes a website is nowadays more a matter of contents and the maintenance teams. Sometimes, different websites are kept under the same domain name and sometimes, the same website spans several domain names.

Why do you want to keep the two site addresses that are actually just one? This is not maintained on other items

Hi.

They have the same layout but different contents. (One is in French on in English.) So why not?

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hello , sorry not to have seen the discussion page . indeed , it is 10.0.14393.82 . It would have microsoft communicates versions (in full) of Windows 10 .