Out of the literal blue, Microsoft announced the next version of Windows. It's Windows 10. That's right, MS just went ahead and skipped a number. While the reasons are a numeric mystery of their own, Windows 10 looks like good news at the moment! It's one operating system. One platform. One interface. One app store. For all personal computing and communications devices imaginable - from the tiniest wearables to the bulkiest of computers.
So, what's up with Windows? In short, lots is up. Here are the innovations in brief, fresh from the Microsoft tribune.
Ever dreamed for a Start button on your smartphone? You will finally be able to have one! But more importantly, PC users will be getting it and rejoicing as Microsoft finally solved the UI duality that plagued Windows 8. The new old Start menu is a hybrid of Windows 7's Aero layout and Windows 8's Live tiles. This time around, you are getting the best of both, and with resizable tiles and customizations making the cut, the "Metro" experience will be, at the very worst, palatable. Good job, Redmond!
Windows 8 apps made for touch control will be working in a regular keyboard + mouse environment, entirely in the desktop. While we're yet to see how this will pan out, the mere notion of not switching between Metro view and the Windows desktop brings comfort to our hearts.
There's a new Task View that shows even bigger snapshots of the apps you currently have running. That, and Ctrl + V pasting in the Command Prompt are the subtlest, but no less important improvements in Windows 10 by far.
Microsoft showed how Windows 10 users will be ale to snap together at least four running apps, gluing them together in a view that will look spectacular on a large monitor. It should look great on a Surface tab as well, so don't fret over Microsoft being too PC-centric this time.
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So, what's up with Windows? In short, lots is up. Here are the innovations in brief, fresh from the Microsoft tribune.
The Start Menu returns with a vengeance
Ever dreamed for a Start button on your smartphone? You will finally be able to have one! But more importantly, PC users will be getting it and rejoicing as Microsoft finally solved the UI duality that plagued Windows 8. The new old Start menu is a hybrid of Windows 7's Aero layout and Windows 8's Live tiles. This time around, you are getting the best of both, and with resizable tiles and customizations making the cut, the "Metro" experience will be, at the very worst, palatable. Good job, Redmond!
Touch-based apps will run on desktop
Windows 8 apps made for touch control will be working in a regular keyboard + mouse environment, entirely in the desktop. While we're yet to see how this will pan out, the mere notion of not switching between Metro view and the Windows desktop brings comfort to our hearts.
Improved multi-tasking
There's a new Task View that shows even bigger snapshots of the apps you currently have running. That, and Ctrl + V pasting in the Command Prompt are the subtlest, but no less important improvements in Windows 10 by far.
Snap-snap snapping!
Microsoft showed how Windows 10 users will be ale to snap together at least four running apps, gluing them together in a view that will look spectacular on a large monitor. It should look great on a Surface tab as well, so don't fret over Microsoft being too PC-centric this time.
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