| Title | Windows 10 Announced, Technical Preview to be Released Today | |
| Date | Wednesday October 01 2014, @07:58AM | |
| Author | n1 | |
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| from the windows-os-x dept. | ||
techcrunch.com reports Windows 10 Technical Preview will be available for download today and the full OS will be available mid-2015. Meanwhile, The Verge has a video of desktop/tablet mode transitions that seem to make the new version of Microsoft's OS quite a bit less annoying than Windows 8 has been for users.
frojack writes:
Cnet along with every other tech site are reporting that Microsoft is skipping Windows 9, officially announcing the next major version will be called Windows 10.
Originally codenamed Windows Threshold, the new operating system essentially does away with the tiled "Metro" user interface that Microsoft had attempted to implement across its entire device line, from desktop PCs to Surface tablets and Widows Phone devices. It is such a substantial leap, according to Microsoft's executive VP of operating systems, Terry Myerson, that the company decided it would be best to skip over Windows 9, the widely expected name for the next version.
While early reviews of pre-release candidates did have some pleasant surprises; the major changes seems to be a far more intelligent handling of tablets which have keyboards and mice that can come and go, be folded out of the way, and the OS switches seamlessly from a desktop oriented user interface to a touch oriented one. The Verge has an extensive writeup and a video of this in action.
Some may criticize the name change as desperation, others will simply announce "too little too late". Others trot out allegedly year old April Fools Joke stories that (if not totally tongue in cheek) predicted this name change on April fools day in 2013.
The changes shown seem to address the big issues in the interface previously known as Metro, in a rather well integrated way.
So what say Soylentils: Is this enough? Has Microsoft actually listening to the complaints since Windows 8 was first released? Has their self inflicted gunshot wound to the foot healed? Will this re-start the corporate customers on delayed upgrades? Or will they hold out for 11?
Or, is the best you have to say about it "too little too late"?
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