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 upgrades for 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 Ultimate 7 | |
| 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 functional ever. With the help of telemetry the company creates and develops the future of an operational and a world that looks towards the cloud, while the computer continues to be operated by the end user. The idea is amazing, maybe not that innovative, but it really excites, especially with the Microsoft ads that show 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 transformed Windows from a big-bang modelrelease every-three years to something like a big-bug-release, every six months or less.
I won't compare the Linux distributions that use either 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 in the time it took to develop a new system, there were no huge discrepancies in the hardware that circulated.
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 is moving at the speed of light, just like the Internet. What can not go hand in hand we throw away and take another. But I find it hard to believe that the speed of updates will sacrifice quality. Microsoft will probably have to rethink the system it has adopted, because as a dominant player in the market, its mistakes affect a lot of people.
