Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Microsoft Announces Windows 10



Call me crazy, but I think businesses are going to like Windows 10. By reintroducing the start menu, adding easy-to-access multiple desktops and even giving the Command Prompt its first upgrade in years, Microsoft is doing more than paying lip service to a disenfranchised business customer — it's delivering what could be the best Windows for business ever. As is Microsoft’s way, though, it took the long way to get here. Windows 8 was a dangerous detour borne out of a real desire to bring desktop and laptop computing into the modern age, where touchscreens are everywhere. Doing something as aggressive as removing the Start Button and, with it, the Start Menu was a calculated risk, but perhaps not that risky since Start wasn’t even a part of the original Windows 1.0, Windows 3 or even the widely used Windows 3.1. When it did arrive in 1995, with the Rolling Stones “Start Me Up” as its theme song, no less, it transformed causal and business computing. Everyone became wedded to it. Or so it seemed.
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