For a long time, there has been a picture circulating on the Internet. There are two large packages of floppy disks placed on a large yellow carton. One of the packages has been opened. You can see the cover of the floppy disk from the picture:

Identified as Windows 8.1, specifically Disk 1 of 3711, Disk 2 of 3711, Disk 3 of 3711

What this picture means is that someone wants to install an operating system on their computer , but there was no optical drive, only floppy disks, so he ordered the Windows 8.1 system installation floppy disks from Microsoft, hoping to install the operating system through the floppy disks, and he actually received a large box of floppy disks.

1. Analysis from the capacity

The figure shows the Japanese version of Windows 8.1. The 64-bit version of Windows 8.1 Japanese version should be around 3.61GB, and the 32-bit version of Windows 8.1 Japanese version should be around 3.61GB. The version should be around 2.68GB, calculated based on the standard 3.5-inch floppy disk capacity of 1.44MB:

3.61GB x 1024MB / 1.44MB 2567

2.68GB x 1024MB / 1.44MB 1905

In other words, the number of floppy disks required is between 1905-2567. Even including the loss of divided disks, there is a very big gap from the 3711 labeled in the picture. The capacity of 3711 floppy disks is about 5.22GB. This capacity should not be possible in the Windows 8/8.1 era. Even the current installation image of the latest Windows 11 operating system is only about 5.1GB.

3711 x 1.44MB /1024MB 5.22GB

2. Analysis from the font logo

In the picture, we can see two main font logos , let’s first look at the colorful Microsoft logo and English logo on the carton:

On August 23, 2012, Microsoft launched a new brand trademark. The four-color square on the left is reminiscent of the Windows logo, and the four The color matching of each square is also consistent with the Windows logo, and these four squares have more meanings. Red represents Office, blue represents Windows, green represents Xbox, and yellow represents Bing. The word Microsoft on the right uses the Segoe UI font. There is no obvious difference between the logo on the carton packaging and the Microsoft trademark.

Let’s look at the monochrome Windows logo and English logo on the floppy disk. Like the Microsoft trademark, Microsoft also adopted a new Windows logo when it released Windows 8 in 2012, and Windows also adopted Segoe UI. font.

But the floppy disk label seems to be Arial font

In addition, the "with Internet Explorer 11" on the label is also very strange.

So I basically believe that It's just a joke!

This is Disk 1 of 2639, the Japanese version of Windows 10. Is it true?

This is Disk of 2079, the English version of Windows 10, is it real?

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