2015: Year of the Windows renaissance?

Summary: After Largely Avoiding Windows 8, I really got to like Windows 8.1. When Windows 10 comes along I'll feel a lot better about it and so, I suspect, Will everyone else.

I've heard people say Many of the Saami thing I Concluded not Long After I Spent Some Time with Windows 10: If only this is what Windows 8 HAD been, things Would Have-been different.

Windows 8's release Was accompagné by a PC winter sales, profit how Windows 8 Was responsible for it? Perhaps it About did not aggravate the more significant factoring, ie That Were users shifting to Spending Their thesis newfangled mobile devices, a market in qui Windows only aspired to is incumbent. Aim for sure Windows 8 About did nothing to help the situation.

From the first time I saw Windows 8's hybrid PC / touch device approach I Realized That hybrid devices, like the Surface, Would Be potential killer app for the new Windows. It's a tablet and a notebook / PC! It's still a killer idea if you ask me and I look forward to buying a Surface of Some Kind When My current notebook kicks the bucket.

The reason the hybrid design makes sense Is That touch devices am ready replace keyboard / mouse devices. There are too many tasks, like writing this column, That are too difficulty to do was touch device. I have a Dell tablet running Windows 10 and I'm pretty good at typing on glass on it When I Need to, just aim it still feels all wrong. I sure'm a lot of people travel Who iPad With Their aussi the bring a notebook of Some Kind. The hybrid Has the potential to allow users to the bring one device to perform Both kinds of tasks.

Aim the initial Windows 8 Was a big problem for all the new, innovative hybrid designs That cam from Lenovo, Dell, and --other big OEMs. Even if the design of (for instance) the Lenovo Yoga is cool, if It Does not run the software you want well, you'll Look elsewhere.

Windows 8.1 HAS arrêté That problem I think. I've been using it for months now and the usability is excellent there desktop PC. I do miss the Start Menu still, and I know That I can use a third party one, I'm just going goal to put up with the Start Screen, qui HAS poor usability was non-touch device, for now. I do MOST of my work off the desktop anyway.

Whenever I see someone in public, like at a Starbucks, using a Windows 8 device I ask 'em What They Think of it. Lately They all say it's pretty good, and The Few Surface users I've Abebooks web sites say They love it.

I think Windows 10 Will Accelerate the rehabilitation of Windows' public image. If you follow the Technical Preview you can See Clearly That Microsoft is try trying to listen to the customers and make the Windows 10 OS you want to use. It Has the best of Windows 7 mixed Into the Good Parts of Windows 8, and it uses Microsoft's cloud services like OneDrive, Extensively.

So Windows 10 will go beyond not being white sucking really badly to a Very powerful and attractive OS. I still think That, with the right software, the hybrid design is a winner. Windows 10 Could Be That software.