Everything you need to know about Windows 10

It is now available to the public Windows 10, the latest operating system from Microsoft, which is not followed by further versions. It is offered free of charge in the first year for all users on Windows 7 and Windows 8.1, and on July 29 will be available exclusively for Insider members. Following the roll-out will be expanded to all the others in a progressive manner.

An OS created by Microsoft and finished by users in sign of gratuity.

Microsoft cannot afford any misstep with Windows 10. The company is recovering from the failure of eight who, even today on the day of the debut of its successor, failed to climb over the market shares of Seven. It took several years to overcome the archaic Windows XP, which is still preferred by many business realities carelessly worldwide.

Windows 10 was designed and developed by Microsoft, but just because you cannot make mistakes you treasured as never before the advice received by the users, who have actively participated in the development of the embryo of the operating system. They were millions Insiders who have contributed to the development, giving advice through the experience with the beta build released publicly.

We can say that Windows 10 is not a completely new product on the date of his release, 29 July 2015, but that many professionals and home users already know him in a particularly thorough. On 1 October 2014, Microsoft released the first technical preview of the operating system, then known as Technical Preview.

All users could participate in the beta program simply by registering on Windows Insider, an element that has granted a successful initiative. It is a move that the company had already implemented with Windows Phone (there called Developer Preview), which brought more than one million users to try out the new software in only a month after his birth. But it was ” the stuff of experts “.

” You must be joking in saying that it is the stuff of experts. So, if you believe that your BIOS is a new type of fuel plant, Technical Preview might not be for you, ” she wrote the company during the presentation of the first beta. Since then the company has requested advice and opinions about the features to be included or omitted, the choices in terms of user experience, the impact of the graphic interface elements, but also basic advice related to the lock screen wallpaper.

Over the months, the finishing works were very many, and difficult to quantify: Microsoft has marked those that would be the main new features of the operating system, but to lay out the user experience were just ordinary users.

A bold new approach on the part of Microsoft, which is unlikely we see practiced by giants of this caliber and reminiscent, with the proper proportions, that of open-source software, in which the community is to write the code. But it is not only the new approach in that of Redmond, since the whole concept behind Windows.

Microsoft chooses to abandon the numerical progression, forgetting 9 to move directly to Windows 10, a number that more than once we have defined as ” more concrete and equity “, which aims to establish and better define a radical change not only in graphical user interface or functionality, but in the basic concept of the SO.

” Windows as a service ” is the goal and wanted to get the new Microsoft led by Satya Nadella, intended as a Windows service. A concept that embraces the mode of operation of the new Microsoft, leaner than elephantine Steve Ballmer and able to juggle multiple categories of product from software and services, up to the hardware, with smartphones, tablets and 2 -in-1. A path that already drew Ballmer, but that reaches its full maturity only with the new CEO, who wants to define himself as a Windows 10 compatible with any ecosystem, and not only as a simple operating system.

Windows 10 will be the last operating system from Microsoft, phrase which actually displaces but defining the new strategy of the company of Redmond, where Windows will receive incremental updates forever and for free: ” There will be no Windows 11 ” , He recalled a few weeks ago by a company spokesman.

This means that after Windows 10, we should not expect any more major release. The updates will come with patience, but will be incremental: think about the next new operating system with an identification number would be wrong, because this will not happen. Windows 10 will be updated just as a service, rather than as a traditional software, and all future upgrades will be offered for free.

Free has been one of the most-used words in the pre-release, as Windows 10 will be offered for free to all users of Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 with licensed in the first year after its debut. But there will be no disruption in the business model of the company, which has already happened with the introduction of various service’s subscriptions.

Moreover, Microsoft aims to monetize with sales to OEMs and not on the sale of various licenses to the final consumer who probably occupy a marginal part of its turnover. The end user will not pay almost no circumstances in the new operating system, and in the first year after its debut, the update will be free for hundreds of millions of users worldwide.

With a move so aggressive, Microsoft aims to results decidedly ambitious for the Windows 10, 1 billion of installations over the next three years.