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Microsoft Announces Windows 10
Today at a press conference in San Francisco, Microsoft announced the new version of their flagship operating system, called Windows 10. (Yes, t-e-n. I don't know.) With the new version of the operating system, they'll be unifying the application platform for all devices: desktops, laptops, consoles, tablets, and phones. As early leaks showed, the Start Menu is back — it's a hybrid of old and new, combining a list of applications with a small group of resizable tiles that can include widgets. Metro-style apps can now each operate inside their own window (video). There's a new, multiple-desktop feature, which power users have been demanding for years, and also a feature that lets users easily grab objects from one desktop and transfer it to another. The command line is even getting some love. The Technical Preview builds for desktops and laptops will be available tomorrow through the Windows Insider Program. They're requesting feedback from customers. Windows 10 will launch in late 2015.
So, most people still prefer Windows 7, Windows 8/8.1 is only slowly getting market share and people apparently don't like it much, Windows 9 is supposed to come out this fall ... and somehow we're also expecting a Windows 10 next year?
Does Microsoft think people will pay them annually for an upgrade? Or that we'll buy new machines to run this new thing?? They might be sorely disappointed with that.
Hmmm ... so they're going to have one big enormous bloated build for all platforms? Is that what this means?
Right, because your phone should carry all of the bloat which goes along with a server.
And, once again, one wonders if Microsoft really has any understanding of the mobile market.
Unless your phone has the same specs as your desktop, this isn't really going to be workable, is it?
I commend them for finally adding virtual desktops ... a feature they've only occasionally realized people actually want, but the rest of this just makes me think they've lost the plot a little.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
At least it doesn't run bash.
Yes, linux nerds, the truth hurts. Linux has security holes. Enormous drive-18-wheeler-through-ones.
If you want to dish it out to M$ then you've got to be able to take it as well.
Tubby or not tubby. Fat is the question