Where do I even start?
Show me the Windows!
What’s next
for Windows?
Uh… Doors!?
Y
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eah!
Where do I even start? That was my (and I am pretty sure yours too) reaction to
the Windows 8 OS. “What on the PC is this? No START Button! Only some freaking
tiles! You must be kidding me! What… No!? It’s not April 1st! So you
serious, huh!” What am I gonna do now?
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| Windows 10 Start Menu Preview |
For me, and for most of you as well, I suppose, Microsoft Windows is a Computer and vice-versa, because we started our journey with the automated-electronic devices called computers with Bill Gates’ brainchild—Microsoft, and that journey is still going on, with no sight of ending anytime soon. Along those years from late 20th century to this on-going 21st century, Microsoft has had lots of ups and downs… MS-DOS, Windows XP, Surface Tablets, Xbox (Hits); MS Bob, Internet Explorer, Zune, Vista, Kin, Windows 8 (Flops). Yet Windows has a lion’s share in the PC market, which is vegetating now though.
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| Windows 10 Virtual Desktop |
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“Keep reading to the end if you
want to know how Google Chrome web browser can soon turn out to be the whole
Operating System for your Machine”
To
Windows 8 again! I was excited to get Windows 8 first. But as I played around
it a little bit, and its Start Menu Tiles… I was like, I want my Seven back
(however, I am finding Windows 8 cool now, and still using it on my machine
after learning some tricks… God bless Geeks!) Privacy seemed like a major
silent issue here in Windows 8, provided that you aren’t much careful. You are
enticed to enter your username and password most of the times. Or when you
install the apps like Viber and Skype from the store, you are gonna have a hard
time controlling those notifications which you might not want to appear like
they will. I tried to stop the background running apps too, but in vain. So I
just switched to executable desktop version of those apps. And about those tiles…
if you turn on the live tiles, and somebody accidentally stares at your Windows
8 start screen for a while, then they are gonna have pretty good idea about
your Twitter/Facebook connections and your mail inbox. Good for ‘em; Bad for
you!
And
don’t get me started on using those Tiled apps. You cannot use them without
installing the updates first. Wither you install the updates or you don’t use ‘em
at all. And when you try to update them, Windows has problem connecting to the
store (this problem may be attributed to my slow internet speed… trust me,
1MBps is a premium speed here in Nepal!) And what about searching the
apps/settings/files from start menu? I guess it was working fine in the
beginning, but now when I have to search for some apps, I have to type out the
entire name of that app.
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| Windows Search Issue |
Microsoft
tried to pacify the situation a little bit coming up with the update to Windows
8.1.
Many
of us are now expecting Microsoft to come up with the next Windows 9…. That’s logical!
But Microsoft has something magnificent in their processors, and thus is a
couple of steps ahead of us. It is set to roll out with Windows 10 in early 2015.
Skipping No. 9 may imply that Microsoft is planning something BIG… Real BIG,
and in fact, yes it is.
>> Windows 10 seems to be kinda
breeding of Windows 7 and Windows 8, unofficially. Windows 10 brings back to
life its traditional, all-time-high START Button from Windows 7 and adds to the
menu the apps tiles from Windows 8. Cool! It appears that Windows guys know
what synergy means!
>> Every version of Windows has
one common desktop feature, i.e. Windows arrangement: Cascading, Tiling
horizontally or vertically, and often times the shape and the number of windows
is a headache. But now Windows 10 is
coming up with multiple desktops, I guess for the multiple windows to work on
simultaneously. This new feature will be useful for those PC users who actively
require using more than one software at a time. Thank you Microsoft!
>> Windows 8 was a Flip-Flop
book, no pun intended! You use the apps from store, and have to switch back to
the desktop… just flip-flop. Well, Windows has had enough with those Flips and
Flops. No more Flip-Flop. Windows 10 will have those accessible as the normal
other windows. Cool! Another Hybrid Theory… Maybe Microsoft should choose
Linkin Park to promote its new Windows 10. You’ve heard Linkin Park’s Hybrid
Theory album, right!? Well, never mind!
>> And Windows 10 is going to be
consistent across all platforms>> Desktops/Laptops, smartphones, tablest,
Xbox… so that software developers don’t have
to burn their midnight oil creating the same apps again for another platform.
That’s
all that my not-so-geeky brain can come up with. Thanks to YouTube for those
videos. I got the snaps from there!
So
is Windows 10 gonna be the ‘Snap it’ magic thing like turning the table upside
down for Windows 8 in this ever elusive competitive business?
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| Windows 10 Multi-Desktops |
>>>>> Well
not so fast!
There is Apple and the ubiquitous Google.
Microsoft should be aware more of Google, even though Google is a relatively
new entrant in this field because whatever the Google touches, it turns into
Gold, more or less. What’s more interesting is Google comes up with brilliant,
innovative and usually well-designed products and giving them away for free!
And who doesn’t love free stuffs? Regarding the soul of computing machine,
Google has already stirred up the market with its free Android OS. Google seems
like a generous party of people. Chrome has already proved itself as the most
popular web-browsing application. But Chrome isn’t always going to stay like
that forever. Google is working on to make it an open-source Operating System,
unlike the proprietary and heavy and costly and buggy other OSs. Free Operating
System sounds cool, and when Google
backs it, it becomes way-too-awesome, like Android!
And
the new (but now not so new) CEO of Microsoft, Satya Nadella (sounds like an
Asian… me too Asian), seems to have a big vision to take forward Bill Gates’ legacy.
Good Luck, Mr. Nadella!
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Where do I even Start?
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