One Year Windows 10: What Did We Learn?

It was a full year for Redmond. The they launched in three major releases and managed to acquire 350 million active users. Let's take a look at some of the major milestones, but also the difficulties encountered, and see if Windows 10 will catch Redmond's ambitious goal of one billion devices.Windows 10 0

In a few weeks, Microsoft will release the next update of the Windows 10 operating system, marking the third major OS release at one time.

With the company's traditional standards, this is almost unheard of, and many of what happened at Redmond during the last year would have been unthinkable to happen a few years ago.

To πρόγραμμα Windows changes the data

Windows CEO Terry Myerson seems very excited when he talks about the Windows Insider program announced with Windows 10.

"The Insider program has changed the way we do everything. It has changed how we develop Windows and how we interact with the company's customers and friends. ”

He is right. In previous versions of Windows it usually took years of private testing before finally released to the public in a limited preview version. Windows 10 radically changed this model, as anyone can now sign up to access preview versions. This provides a public feedback mechanism that allows others Insiders to add features or report bugs.

The program came after the company's Windows 8 disaster when the company decided that it would be good to hear the customer.

Microsoft has to face fears of privacy

One of the biggest changes to the new operating system is the "Windows as a service" or "Windows as a service" model. This model uses telemetry to gather anonymous information about how the company's customers use Windows, especially when the operating system fails in a process.

Microsoft has been criticized in the past for too many defective updates releases. With accurate error data delivered in real time, the company can find and fix any problem much faster than in the past.

But here, as it seems, the end justifies the means again. The arrogant Microsoft that developed Windows 8 without listening to the voices of its customers, appeared again with a which has too many critics.

Yusuf Mehdi, vice president of Windows VP, said: “As we were running Windows, our customers were asking us: Tell us about your privacy policy, tell us about telemetry. I do not expect that there will ever be a day when everyone will say that it is perfectly fine. There will always be feedback, and we will listen to it. "
Encouraging?

The Windows Phone market collapsed

Windows 10 Mobile is a full member of the Windows family, developed with the same code in the kernel, and many of the universal applications running on the desktop version can work. The Anniversary Update will be available for Windows Phone right after release for personal computers.

The problem is they don't exist ! Despite the platform's enthusiastic user base, Microsoft's revenue management division announced bad news ahead of the official launch of Windows 10, with a 7,6 billion cut to the phone division's badged and mass layoffs.

In May 2016, the new CEO Satya Nadella announced that "We are focusing our efforts on the phones" but at the moment we have not seen any new device and there are no signs that we will see soon.

Free upgrades mean impressive dynamics

Immediately after the release of the new operating system, Microsoft was not afraid to announce milestones for the new release. After a month, the company announced very clearly that 75 had millions of active users.

In January, Windows 10 managed to pass 200 million. By May, it was 300 million, and the most recent picture we have one month before the end of the free upgrade offer, the number had reached 350 million.

The numbers fall as demystification occurs and it seems that those who have Windows 7 and 8.1 and did not "bite" on the offer will probably not bite. Of course there is the possibility of a last minute upgrade, or the company extending the free availability of the operating system.
But the momentum of adoption that we saw at the beginning was really impressive, it passed. So two days ago the company has announced that it will not catch up with the target of one billion devices with Windows 10.

GWX and Microsoft's aggressive marketing policy

If you set a goal like the one set by Microsoft and you want to catch it, you definitely have to be ready for anything. The company designed the Get Windows 10 program as a way to promote Windows 10 to the hundreds of millions windows that could have the free upgrade. Although in the first few months it was convenient for those who wanted to upgrade for everyone else it was very annoying.

Στη συνέχεια η εταιρεία το πήγε πάρα πολύ μακριά, με τις κοινοποιήσεις να γίνονται όλο και πιο επίμονες. Σε ορισμένες περιπτώσεις μάλιστα το πρόγραμμα GWX κατέβαζε πολλά gigabytes με αρχεία εγκατάστασης των Windows στο παρασκήνιο χωρίς να το γνωρίζει ο χρήστης. Μερικοί χρήστες ανέφεραν ότι η αναβάθμιση ξεκίνησε χωρίς τη συγκατάθεσή τους. Ήταν bug ή ;

Microsoft in most of these complaints reported it was bugged.

The GWX program was constantly changing its behavior throughout the first year but never offered an easy option to turn down the upgrade offer. So it took tweaks with registry changes or third-party software to say "No, thank you".

Thankfully, the offer ends on July 29 of 2016. What happens next; will GWX immediately disappear? Unfortunately, this has no expiration date and if we do not know it.

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