Microsoft unveils Windows 10 operating system
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Microsoft has announced that Windows 10 will be the name of its next operating system (OS).
The choice is a surprise bearing in mind it represents a jump from the last version - Windows 8.
The software will run on a wide range of devices from smartphones and tablets to PCs and Xbox games consoles, with applications sold from a single store.
It also marks the return of the Start Menu, which had been removed from Windows 8.
In addition to offering a list of the user’s favourite applications, the menu also brings up resizable tiles - similar to those featured in Windows 8's touch-centric interface - on PCs and tablets.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-29431412
The choice is a surprise bearing in mind it represents a jump from the last version - Windows 8.
The software will run on a wide range of devices from smartphones and tablets to PCs and Xbox games consoles, with applications sold from a single store.
It also marks the return of the Start Menu, which had been removed from Windows 8.
In addition to offering a list of the user’s favourite applications, the menu also brings up resizable tiles - similar to those featured in Windows 8's touch-centric interface - on PCs and tablets.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-29431412
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So if that was the case then why did they not call it Windows 9 then? Or was the 8/8.1 thing a throwback to the old days of Windows 3.0/Windows 3.1?
Microsoft self congratulatory gave this one a 10.
Laters the dial goes all the way to 11.
:rolleyes:
Exactly. Windows 7 was good so, on the basis that every other OS they do is a stonking lemon, then calling it Windows 9 would have had good vibes about. Calling it Windows 10 is 2 up from Windows 8 and the psychological message that will be sent out is that Windows 10 will be a right royal pig's ear clusterf*ck like Windows 8.
The new Start menu will satisfy those that need it.
The new Task view is a big improvement.
Snap assist. Handy
Universal apps, about time....
etc etc.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84NI5fjTfpQ
The start menu is too big, it goes along half the screen >:(
Personally, I think, nay would even bet money that W10 will be another W7 and then some. I suspect MS will really pull it out of the fire with this release.
As a Mac user and now only occasional Windows user (apart from work that is) I'm actually looking forward to this version.
If you want a copy of Windows 10 you can find it here from 1st October:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/preview-coming-soon
Be warned it will probably be buggy!
Perhaps 9 has an air of being "not quite 10 (X)" about it.
No I think Windows 10 will be another W7 for them. Windows 8.x was a disaster and they might get some respect back in the business world now with this new version. I'd say W10 will be good and W11 (if there is one) will be bad. I can see people waiting now for Windows 10 before replacing their computers. Will there be launch parties? Even though I'm a Mac user (with a W7 partition and living in a family of Windows users) I might still be tempted to attend one just for the fun of it
I hope those darned tiles/apps attached to the Start Menu (that make it so huge) can be ditched! No use to me otherwise, but I think Classic Shell will fix that for me.
I have long suspected that the Microsoft Marketing department is run by a bunch of maniacs, given the bizzaire naming strategies they come up with. However, they knew they had to distance themselves from Windows 8 in a big way.
Both ME and Vista were consumer so had a very short lifespan. Maybe 98 was consumer too.
NT, XP and Windows 7 lasted longer being more business orientated. It being much harder to get business to throw away old PCs is maybe the reason for better memory management on these.
We really do have businesses to thank for XP lasting as long as it did.
The thing is they jumped from Windows 3 to alpha or year related, coming back to numbers at 7. I would assume Windows 4 , 5 and 6 were the codes for such as 2000 NT and XP.
But where did 9 go to ?
The press today are having a field day today on that.
I think they should have called it Windows One (not windows 1.0 that Gates invented) to share with One note/One drive/Xbox One, just confusing still MS.
They made a point of One in the live event, One Product family, One platform, One store. It would have worked so well as new start, new name.
Love the comments in the Q&A after the live event, what lion or mountain will it be called?
The live event from yesterday is here in the MS youtube page and also a vid showing a continuum demo here
Will look forwards to getting the technical preview build later today, will be running it myself in a VM.
http://preview.windows.com
Looks like we will not see Windows 10 until late 2015. Will the consumer wait that long or will the likes of the new 12.9 inch iPad tablet put a further dent in MS.
It makes as much sense as any of the decisions they made with Windows 8!
It's quite common for software companies to jump a version number for various reasons. v13 is often skipped as some people are superstitious and if a previous version has had a lot of bad press then going +2 says "it's not just different, it's really different!"
Microsoft may be getting a lot of laughs in the media over this but it all counts as publicity. They are getting much more news coverage than if it had been called Windows 9 (or even 8.2)
Improvement over the children's area that is the Start Screen on Windows 8 though.
Damn, I was going to suggest that! The whole 8/8.1 issue - should have spotted that.
Probably they can't go Windows X as it sounds a bit Apple-ish-ly and also Windows X.x would get confusing or even X.i or X.ii, because let's face it, they're going to revise it.
Even the 'good' ones.
Windows VIsta
Windows 7
Windows 8
Windows 8.1 - 8+1 = 9
or maybe Windows 7 ate 9
Only companies with a dominant market position ever do this because any other company would go out of business if they did it.
So the major user-interface shift in Win 8 was a terrible judgement, they only got away with it because of their dominant market position. But I bet it helped many people give up on Windows.
Is the traditional user-interface back in Win 10? If not it will only hasten the MS decline.
Windows ME and Vista had such a short lifespan because they were piles of dung, not because they were consumer OSes. ME wasn't even a Windows version, it was just a collection of bugs that should never have been released. The only good thing that came outta that version was System Restore - if your computer would boot up, that is
My old 2003 XP desktop originally had Windows NT4 installed! It was a business machine and dad had to help me install XP on it (I was 13 at the time but I knew what I was doing. He'd give me the instructions and I'd follow them). Windows XP lasted so well partly because it was both business and consumer oriented and Vista sucked. If Windows Longhorn had been released in 2005/2006 then maybe XP would have died out in 2010 after Windows 7 came out. I can see W7 sticking around til 2020 unless everyone goes mad for Windows 10.
Haha
I always thought the 8/8.1 thing was a throwback to the Windows 3.0/3.1/3.11 era. Apple's version numbering wouldn't really work for Windows. They're two completely different OSes