windows 10 Review
5
It will be good, but will it be good enough to call it a succes ?
What has changed
Windows 10 has got one environment instead of the multiple environments we have seen in windows 8, the new environment looks alike the windows 7 environment . The start menu is back! We missed the start menu in windows 8 and 8.1, Microsoft listened to the critics of its users and included the old menu in windows 10.
Another new feature are the live tiles, the tiles we have seen in windows 8 are back in a form that it is not that confusing. In the start menu you can see the tiles, the tiles are tiles inspired by windows 8 like the weather.
The step from windows 7 to windows 10 isn’t that big as from windows 7 to windows 8. Windows 10 is the perfect combination between windows 7 and window 8. The interface of windows 10 was just one step too far.
Microsoft came up with the substitute of Internet explorer, this doesn’t; mean internet explorer is immediately dead, they deliver internet explorer on the computer but it is sort of dead. The substitute in a web Brower with the code name: project Spartan on Microsoft Build they released the real name of the browser is Microsoft edge. This browser seems to let the border between files and the web fade. You can save webpages into pdf-files, you can draw on the webpage, you can take notes within a site. For companies this might seem to be an ideal feature, employees can change thing with a webpage, people can take a screenshot and send it to the people.
We don’t know a lot about this feature but Microsoft released the news that you can turn a webpage directly into an app. You still have the same functions but the app has got more functions such as notifications.
Maybe the coolest thing Microsoft released on Microsoft Build was the function where you can change IOS- and Android apps into Microsoft apps. How this is going to work isn’t known because most apps use functions of android, we will see.
Microsoft Hello, a function which recognizes faces and fingerprint which you can use to log in. some computers already use a sort alike system with Real sense technology which uses 2 camera’s to distinguish the difference between real and a picture.
Microsoft has to come with an extremely good version and it looks like they are going to. They might have set a high goal, they want 1 billion devices to run on Microsoft 10 in the coming 2 years. With 700 devices, PC’s, Phones and tablets, sold every two years they need 300 million upgrades or more devices sold. If this version is easy to use, has enough apps, what wasn’t the case with windows 8, and all the features above will properly work than windows 10 will be a success.