Is Windows 10 will be the best operating system for Microsoft ? Windows 8 & ME was laughably bad, and lasted only a little more than a year before Windows XP released as compare to Windows ME’s badness was nothing compared to the awfulness that was Windows Vista, hardware-unfriendly and bug-ridden operating system with high-end system requirements and annoying features such as overly intrusive User Account Control.
Microsoft’s objective with Windows 8 was not to lead us all into the glorious future for our own benefit. Microsoft has one great asset: a huge desktop user base. It has one big weakness: no users to attract developers to its Windows Phone and Tablets. In other words, no customers in its app store. Windows 8 was to be a big part of the solution: convert desktop users to Windows Store users. This however may not be really of much interest to Windows desktop users, who don’t actually get any benefit from this. It’s funny, but this seems to irritate people. Microsoft spends millions testing its products on users, so there is no way the Windows 8 debacle was unpredicted, but it did it anyway. At this point, Microsoft lost a lot of respect I think; this is obvious when it comes to Enterprise which adds up retraining tens of thousands of users for no benefit to productivity. To some of the most important people in the business, CIOs, it doesn’t make sense and they haven’t done it. Microsoft didn’t underestimate users, they just made decisions which were about Microsoft’s needs. Enterprise has always loved Microsoft for its backwards compatibility; Windows 8 was a broken promise in a sense, and the money has voted with its feet. So have consumers apparently.
For desktop users, Windows 8 removes a lot of crud, and therefore starts faster, and there some minor improvements here and there. The reduction of bloat is great, but it’s stretching it to call it a “feature” when it’s really a bug fix. I, for one, love the new Task Manager, but this is really Windows 7.1. Windows 10 sounds like it will be great, it’s just silly it had to be like this. Microsoft won’t do Windows 8 again, I think they now no longer could even if they wanted to, as desktop is clearly a legacy platform at home and at work. Users don’t look for desktop innovation anymore than they want anyone to redesign their power sockets.
Being worse than Windows Vista takes similar work , but Windows 8 has proved to be up to the task. It bit struggle and forces users of traditional computers to wrangle with an operating system built for touchscreen tablets. Even Rube Goldberg would have been embarrassed to sketch out something like this.
“Windows 10 os that is use as the single OS for all the devices (desktops,laptops,mobiles & tablets) has been hailed as having potential of delivering much to the businesses in the form of certain sought after features that range from data security to productivity.”
Windows 10 gives Microsoft a chance to trend upward, transform up the foundation of its operating system, and add some latest features that will excite its performance . The Windows 10 update was promised to be a launched this year.
What we do know is that Windows 10 is a one-size-fits-all OS, providing “One store, one way for applications to be discovered, officially launched , purchased, and updated across all of these devices,”
System requirements
Basically, if your PC support Windows 8.1 configuration then, you’re good to go. If you’re not sure, about your system configuration don’t worry—Windows will check your system to make sure it can install the preview.
- Processor: 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster
- RAM: 1 gigabyte (GB) (32-bit) or 2GB (64-bit)
- Free hard disk space: 16 GB
- Graphics features: Microsoft DirectX 9 graphics devices with supportive WDDM driver
- A Microsoft account and Internet access
Every windows apps runs in a window: Apps from the Windows Store now open in the same format that desktop apps do and can be resized and moved around, and have title bars at the top allowing for maximize, minimize, and close with a click.
This is a unique feature introduced in Windows 10 that serves to add switching functionality for the user to have option for the input modes of touch & type. Through this feature this new OS has an advantage over the previous Windows os 8.1 thus eliminating very confusing features of touch & type dual orientation. Now user of device can have option for the mode of input and the duality is done away with user’s choice at the touch n type devices.
The user can launch multiple desktops screens at a particular working time and that open up as mini windows at the bottom and tell about the apps in use in real time and the newly introduced features in windows10 is ‘Snap Assist’ user interface allows the user to toggle and share app from different desktops on the screen.
Multiple desktops screen : Create multiple desktops screen for different purposes and projects and switch between these desktops easily and pick up where you left off on each desktop.
Search & Find files faster: File Explorer activity will now displays your recent files and frequently visited folders making for finding files you’ve worked on is easier.
Improved command prompt
This is a new addition in Windows 10 and is aimed at providing direct functionality to the technical or developer users. Now there is no need to get to the context menu; instead get it done through Ctrl+V shortcut.
Multimedia and gaming
Xbox One and Windows 10 integration
In December, Xbox boss Phil Spencer said the Windows 10 event would discuss not only the new OS, but the company’s plans for PC gaming. but Microsoft still can’t understand that desktop PC is not an Xbox, and Xbox is not a desktop PC.
Home Tab of the Explorer
The explorer has a Home Tab that has specialized alignments of folders, favorites and recent activities files (a files’ specialized version of the Windows Vista feature – Recent shortcut links Places where .lnk shortcut files stored). Now get on to your destination directly and swiftly.
Recycle Bin on your taskbar
New features in which users can customizes Recycle Bin on to your your taskbar menu and have the functionally customized as per users needs.Additionally, this being a technical features for the windows 10 enterprises product, the full windows 10 OS is also likely to having advance features like Cortana and voice alert ‘Notification Tray’ which could potentially define the superiority of the latest update of Microsoft windows 10 OS.
The technical preview of windows 10 has got a cheerful and welcoming response from the critics and windows users and is likely to be launched by the end of 2015.
