Microsoft Releases Windows 10 SDK

An anonymous reader writes: Microsoft today launched developer tools for the Windows 10 Technical Preview, including a software development kit (SDK). Developers can use the new tools, currently in preview, to start building universal Windows apps for Microsoft's upcoming operating system. A universal Windows app is Microsoft's verbiage for an app that can run across different form factors, including PCs, tablets, and phones. Developers can publish these apps in the Windows Store, which will be available across all types of Windows 10 devices.

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Re:Why?

[gstoddart]

I'll give you my alternate theory:

Judging by the sheer amount of crap which needed to be disabled in my new Windows 8.1 box, Microsoft is going to double down on bad design, and give people a shitty user interface on both portable and desktop machines.

The out of the box interface of Windows 8.1 on my 23" non-touch monitor tells me the people in charge are idiots, and aren't paying attention to what people do with computers, and are focused on something else.

Seriously, if you have a keyboard and a mouse, and no touchscreen ... don't give me the romper room version which has been optimized for touch. Every interface queue is wrong in that case.

The OS itself seems pretty sweet -- once you effectively make it look like Windows 2003. But the "vision of the future" which is this terrible interface? Not for a desktop machine. Not at all.

What they do with Windows 10 remains to be seen. But my bet is one marketing winning out over engineering. I'd say almost of the "innovations" in 8.1 are annoying crap which needed to be disabled. I fail to see why Windows 10 will change that.

I fear they're going to come up with an interface which fails at either task.