Opening Window Of Opportunity…
There was a positive reaction to Microsoft’s unveiling of its Windows 10 ‘Technical Preview.’
Groans of not another version were mixed with cheers of ‘Windows 8 cannot be superseded soon enough.’
But, more importantly, there was much encouragement that Windows 10 looks to be what Windows 8 should have been all along.
Some answered the obvious ‘what about Windows 9?’ question with ‘too close to Windows 8.’
The real answer appears to be, though, that lurking deep in the clockwork, some legacy code from the years of Windows 95 and Windows 98 would get confused by another version with a nine in it.
The immediately striking thing about Windows 10 is that it succeeds in combining the look and feel of both Windows 7 and Windows 8.
It has that tiled look that delivers compatibility with Windows based phones and tablets and suited to touch screens.
It also has the Start Menu and Taskbar so familiar and necessary to mouse and touchpad users.
Furthermore, this Windows actually uses windows, even for its Apps, so no more full screen whether you like it or not gizmos lurking behind those square tiles.
For hardline screen space gobblers, there will also be opportunity to run multiple desktops and toggle between them, but opinion is divided about how useful that will be.
It seems likely that many Window 7 users, especially in the corporate market, where only about one in five firms have allowed Windows 8 through the doors, will now wait for Windows 10 and migrate directly to that.
We will all need to be patient, though, its general release is now due ‘later in 2015.’
