#Windows10 Undoes the Disaster of Windows 8 (Mostly) Today, Microsoft took the wraps off the next version of Windows. You’ll be able to install a free, unfinished “technical preview” version this week, or get it in final form sometime next year. It’s called #Windows10. (Why is it Windows 10? What happened to 9? Making sense of the Windows naming sequence is like solving one of those Mensa “What’s the pattern?” puzzles. So far, we have this: Windows 1, 2, 3, 95, 98, 2000, ME, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10. OK, whatever.) #Windows8, as the world now knows, was a superimposed mishmash of two operating systems. There was the touchscreen-friendly TileWorld interface, as I called it. (Microsoft, at various times, called it Modern or Metro; it has officially retired both of those terms and replaced them with nothing.) #Mouse-and-#keyboard mode If you use Windows 10 with a mouse and keyboard, the Start menu is back. Not just the Start button, not just the secret Windows key+X utility menu of Windows 8.1 — the real Start menu. And TileWorld is gone. No more screen of big flat tiles taking over your monitor. Tiles aren’t gone completely; they still pop out of the regular Start menu, a little weirdly. For More Information: https://yahoo/tech/windows-10-undoes-the-disaster-of-windows-8-mostly-98835840904.html
Posted on: Wed, 01 Oct 2014 05:11:02 +0000
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