With the Microsoft Windows 10 release date drawing closer, you should get to know more about this OS before it lands on a desktop or notebook near you. This is going to be a free upgrade for many people, and it's supposed to fix some of the wrongs done with Microsoft Windows 8. Microsoft Windows 10 upgrade will be free for the first year, and this has been addressed in this article as well. Many people have started to write off Microsoft Windows 10 since Windows 8 was such a stinker. This article offers a lot of information about why you actually may want to upgrade your machine to Microsoft Windows 10 when it's finally released later in 2015. Read more at my blog: http://www.ipblogging.com/microsoft-windows-10-release-date-drawing-closer/

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MICROSOFT WINDOWS 10 RELEASE
DATE GETTING CLOSER BUT WHAT
CAME BEFORE?
Microsoft Windows 10 is actually a preemptive strike by the crew in Redmond. It’s
a preemptive strike to rescue Windows market share because Windows 8 is losing
ground, big time.
Many don’t like it.
I currently, as of the writing of this article, have 2 machines. One runs Ubuntu
Linux, and it’s a lighter mobile blogging box. Ironically I’m writing this on the old
HP behemoth, and 18″ notebook “desktop replacement” that originally shipped
with Windows Vista 64­bit and was upgraded to Windows 7 Ultimate 64­bit, which
was a free upgrade from HP. Unlike many, I actually liked Vista. It ran pretty well
on this machine. Windows 7 was always a good performer for me, whether on this
machine or on corporate machines.
I don’t have Windows 8 and I don’t want it.
I won’t go anywhere near it.
Case in point.
At the age of 46, I’m lucky to still have my parents around.
They recently got a new machine that came with Windows 8.1 and I was asked to
look at it on occasion to help with things that weren’t working correctly.

3. I have to tell you, whoever thought of ditching the Start Menu for that tiled
interface should be taken out and summarily shot… Stat!
I have never been around an OS that seems like it was intentionally created to
confuse and frustrate the user.
Microsoft should be ashamed over Windows 8, and I think that they have admitted
that it’s a loser.
MICROSOFT WINDOWS 10 FEATURES
THAT ARE MAKING NEWS
One of the main features is that Windows 10 will have a single interface across all
platforms, from PC’s to phones, with everything in between. It will also have a
unified app store.
They are saying (https://www.theinformation.com/Microsoft­Latest­Mobile­Game­
plan­Apps­over­OS) that apps written for one platform will magically work across
all Windows 10 Platforms. This kind of takes you away from the Windows only

4. program paradigm that we in PC Land are used to. You’ll still have the “Windows
application” world but now this new “Windows 10 Apps world” will also open up
and become popular.
Don’t quote me here, but I imagine that these “apps” will be written to some
interpreted language and api that will allow them to run cross platform. This is all a
bid to raise the popularity and market share of the Windows Phone platform vs
Google Android and Apple iPhone. By allowing app developers to essentially “write
once” and know that their app can run, unchanged, across the entire Microsoft
Windows 10 ecosystem, is very enticing. It’s less work for a developer. This will
lure developers to make lots of apps and lots of apps will lure in new customers.
Of course today’s PC’s are more than powerful enough to run these apps that will be
written to this interface with no problem. They’ll still run regular Windows
binaries. Think “apps vs applications”.
Windows 10 for phones, or Windows Mobile, will be replacing Windows Phone.
It’s a combination of Windows Phone and Windows RT. (the tablet thing)
Microsoft is making light and dark themes for Microsoft Windows 10 operating
system that will match those on Windows Mobile for phones and tablets. They are
really taking this unified thing to a serious level!
Frankly, the whole app thing, for PC’s, is silly. I get that they are trying to do, and
you’ll have people buy in, but just as with apps that run in Google Chrome the web
browser, who really uses them? I know of no Android users who really use Chrome
apps inside the Chrome browser. It’s not exactly the same thing, but it’s similar
enough that it kind of reminded me of that. PC users will continue to look for
applications written for “Windows” and run old Windows apps on “Windows” for
years to come.
Heck, one of the only reasons that I keep Windows on my main behemoth
notebook is the need to run one particular Internet search keyword app which
happens to be a Windows app. I love that program, enough to suffer with Windows
on at least one machine.
I think it’s great that they put the Start Menu back. They are combining it with the
tiled interface that came to be despised in Windows 8, but it’s less intrusive and
doesn’t take over the desktop.
Search is reintegrated into the Start Menu and overall OS, and it taps into Windows
Search and Internet Search.

5. MICROSOFTWINDOWS10CORTANAISAMAJORFEATURE
Windows Cortana, named after the sexy computer personality from the popular
HALO video game series, is a Siri like female voice assistant that can take voice
cues via speech recognition and set up things like calendar dates, open apps, close
apps, and basically operate the Windows 10 Operating System via voice control.
See a developer preview here. Hopefully they’ll leave the video up for archival
purposes…

6. Okay so this all looks sexy, but as a grey beard, it doesn’t impress me. I hate voice
control. I prefer to operate my peecee mano a mano.
Call me old school.
The newer generation likes it.
My son loves operating his tablet via voice control, so maybe this will catch on.
Until Cortana appears and does a lap dance in person, I’ll remain uninterested.
WINDOWS10UNIVERSALAPPSANDTHISCONTINUUMTHING
If the WinRT development paradigm (http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2011/Sep­
15.html) can be updated to provide more punch, then Windows 10 can really
benefit. While Win32 doesn’t support the now ubiquitous high DPI displays out of
the box, WinRT does, so it’s well suited to the job.
Continuum is the ability for an app to adjust and morph between devices, which can
be automatic during runtime or during different sessions depending on the device
running it. For example, same session adaptation would be if you had a notebook
that could switch to tablet mode and back again. The running program could adapt
automatically to a different PC vs tablet interface with the different controls and
things of that nature. The other example would be if you access the same app from
different devices, like a PC, tablet, or a Windows Phone.

7. MICROSOFTWINDOWS10MULTITASKINGANDSCREEN
SHARELOCKING
Windows 10 will also have a way to carousel through running programs and choose
which one to shift focus to, as well as a screen locking feature where you can lock
certain apps to the screen at the same time, which is a feature that is aimed at PC’s
and tablets but obviously can’t really work on a small screen device such as a
phone.

8.
MICROSOFTWINDOWS10RELEASEDATEANDPRICE
Many people wonder when is Windows 10 coming out. Well, Windows 10 release
is slated for late 2015, but developer and preview releases are out. I don’t run it, but
I know at least one developer who does and so far he reports that it’s rough and
buggy. That’s to be expected with developer releases, so it’s no big worry for the
eventual normal end users out there who are waiting for salvation from Windows 8.
As for the Microsoft Windows 10 price, there is some good news. Due to the
unpopularity of Windows 8, Microsoft is in defensive mode trying to keep and grow
market share, so they have announced a Windows 10 free upgrade – Yes! ­a free
Windows 10 upgrade for the first year that it is out to Windows 7 and 8 users.
There has been speculation as to the wording of the announcement, since “free for
a year” can imply a subscription based model after the year is up, but as soon as the
rumors started going around virally, Microsoft has come out to deny that they have
any plans for a subscription based model for Windows 10 pricing, so that’s a relief.
If they want to win back market share, then moving to a subscription based model
would be the most asinine thing that even Microsoft could try and get away with,
and they wouldn’t.
As for Windows 10 requirements, or how powerful your system needs to be in order
to run it, Microsoft claims that Windows 10 requirements will be no more than that
needed to run Windows 8. So, any powerful system that can run Windows 7 or 8

9. effectively will be able to deal with Windows 10. I guess the constant need for
system hardware upgrades has finally slowed down a bit to give computer owners a
break from constant hardware upgrade cycles. I still say get another cheap
machine and get acquainted with Linux (http://www.ipblogging.com/blogging­on­
linux­is­bad­ass/), but many people, I guess, are just too lazy to think outside the
box in that way.
If you are a developer or otherwise qualified, and are thinking of an eventual
upgrade to Windows 10, then you can head on over to Microsoft and get a free
Windows 10 download (http://windows.microsoft.com/en­us/windows/preview­iso)
and try it out, but make sure it’s not on a machine that you depend on to get real
work done. You can even set it up to install via Windows Update
(http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2015/02/02/windows­10­automatic­
install/). Beta software is buggy. You’ve been warned.
I hope that this was a useful Windows 10 Review, at least a review of what Windows
10 features to expect when it’s released. Many people are waiting anxiously on the
Windows 10 release date to arrive so that they can finally ditch the terrible
Windows 8 interface for good. While Microsoft Windows 10 will retain some of
that, they have backed off enough to reinstate the Windows Start Menu that many
have come to rely on and are so used to and comfortable with. They learned that a
PC is not a tablet, and shouldn’t be treated as such.
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