It was a full year for Redmond. Windows 10 was released in three major releases and managed to get 350 million active users. Let's take a look at some important milestones but also the difficulties that have been encountered, and let's see if Windows 10 will catch Redmond's ambitious goal of wanting a billion devices.
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.
Windows Insider changes the data
Terry myerson υπεύθυνος των Windows φαίνεται πολύ συνεπαρμένος όταν μιλάει για το Πρόγραμμα Windows Insider που ανακοινώθηκε με τα 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. Previous versions of Windows typically took years of private testing before they were finally released to the public in a limited preview version. Windows 10 radically changed this model, as anyone is now allowed to sign up to have it access σε εκδόσεις προεπισκόπησης. Έτσι παρέχεται ένας δημόσιος μηχανισμός ανάδρασης, που επιτρέπει σε άλλους τους Insiders να προσθέσουν characteristics, 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 appears, the purpose again sanctifies the means. The arrogant Microsoft who developed Windows 8 without listening to the voices of her customers, again appeared with a feature that 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
Το Windows 10 Mobile είναι ένα πλήρες μέλος της οικογένειας των Windows, ανεπτυγμένο με τον ίδιο κώδικα στον πυρήνα και μπορεί να λειτουργεί πολλές από τις universal εφαρμογές που τρέχουν και στην desktop with έκδοση. Το Anniversary Update θα είναι διαθέσιμο για τα Windows Phone αμέσως μετά την κυκλοφορία τους για τους προσωπικούς υπολογιστές.
The problem is that there are no phones! Although Microsoft's revenue management platform is enthusiastic, Microsoft's revenue management division has announced bad news before the official release of Windows 10, with a limit of 7,6 bits to the badged phone segment 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 figure we have is a month before it expires 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 put a target like what Microsoft puts on and you want to catch it, you must be ready for everything. The company designed the Get Windows 10 program as a way to promote Windows 10 through hundreds of millions of Windows machines that could have the free upgrade. Although the early months were convenient for those who wanted to upgrade for everyone else it was very annoying.
Then the company went too far, with notifications becoming more persistent. In some cases, GWX downloaded many gigabytes of Windows installation files in the background without the user knowing it. Some users reported that the upgrade started without their consent. Was it bug or feature?
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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