Windows 10 is Microsoft's newest operating system. It was officially released on July 29, 2015. The first presentation of Windows 10 took place on September 30, 2014, while the trial version was released a day later, on October 1, 2014.
During its first year, Microsoft offered a free operating system for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 users.
After the first year of release the company changes his mind and continues to have its operating system free of charge despite the end of the offer.
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Windows version |
Eligible versions upgradeof Windows 10 |
|---|---|
| 7 Windows Starter | Windows 10 Home |
| 7 Windows Home Basic | |
| 7 Windows Home Premium | |
| Windows 8.1 with Bing | |
| Windows 8.1 | |
| Windows 7 Professional | Windows 10 Pro |
| Windows 7 Ultimate | |
| Windows 8.1 Pro |
Windows as a Service
Windows 10 is the latest version of Windows, as he said Jerry Nixon, a Microsoft developer. From version 10 onwards there will be only upgrades as Microsoft intends to convert its operating system to WaaS (Windows as a Service).
But what does Windows as a Service mean and how does it differ from the old traditional Windows release model?
The Windows as a service is actually a new approach to updates that will be sent to users, says Mary Jo Foley of ZDNet, noting that Microsoft has different versions for each user.
Basically, the Microsoft created user subgroups who can download different operating system updates, based on their needs and the activities they perform on their computers.
Five years ago in 2015, Windows 10 seemed like a very interesting idea. What we all understand today is that it is a functional that is constantly upgraded, offering a lot of emotions to its friends, and not always positive. It is an operating system in progress.
Customer Separation
Thus the Microsoft clientele was formed based on the needs of Windows as a Service. So we have two-speed customers, those who pay (Enterprise and Education versions) and those who do not pay (Home and Pro versions).
From the second category, the Pro version is somewhat more favorable (updates can be postponed for a while), but it continues to receive updates the way Home receives them.
This is where beta problems begin
The Windows 10 release model (intermittent updates) allows Microsoft to test its operating system first on Home and Pro users, detect telemetry issues, and do so.
If there are reports of more problems after installation a new patch is released to repair the system. Finally, when all goes well, he has the information in the Enterprise and Education editions.
The Fixed fix updates which do not fix, the release of a functional that deletes files, but also the different use of Windows Update, have made too many users to review their view of WindowWorks 7 Window.
Very dart for more experimentation
Windows 10 continues to be advertised and promoted by Microsoft as the best operating ever. With the help of telemetry the company creates and develops the future of one operating system and one world looking towards the cloud while the computer is still running by the end user. The idea is amazing, maybe not so innovative, but it really excites, especially with the Microsoft ads that present it in its ideal form.
But Windows as a service so heavily advertised does not seem to satisfy everyone, especially those who have gone through the experimentation phase and want a stable system to work with.
Microsoft has transformed Windows from a big-bang-release model every three years to something like a big-bug-release every six months or less.
I won't compare Linux distributions that use a rolling update system because although they are similar, the philosophy is completely different.
But I could look back at an operating system developed by the same company, Windows 7.
Windows 7 survived the release of Windows 10 despite the aggressive practices used by Microsoft, and although the company had repeatedly announced that no one would be able to receive security updates after January 2020.
Why
Why updates to a new version (XP, VISTA, Winodows 7) developed for years. In the meantime, Service Packs were circulating, but even these were much more careful, without the telemetry that exists today.
Meanwhile, during the time that a new system needed to be developed, there were no huge differences in the hardware that was circulating.
A single operating system (Windows 10) that is constantly being developed using the same database and kernel will have problems with older hardware somewhere. So far, only one category of computers was not compatible with the Windows 10 upgrade: Some 2-in-1 computers from the Windows 8 era (2012-2014) running on an Intel Clover Trail CPU could not install any updates after July 2016 Anniversary Update.
The tendency
In 2020, everything moves with speed light, just like the Internet. Anything that can't keep up we throw away and get another. But I find it hard to believe that the trend of update speed will sacrifice quality. Microsoft should probably re-examine the system it has adopted, because as a dominant player in the market, its bugs affect too many people.
