Windows 10 Turns Three: A Major Evolution And What's In The Future

Windows 10 has turned three years former, and being a long-time Windows user myself, I would say that Windows x is probably the best iteration of Microsoft's desktop operating organisation when yous compare it to its predecessors. It might sound like an obvious argument because every upgrade brings something new in terms of blueprint and functionality, simply Windows 10 is easily the most refined of them all, especially if we talk about the previous three versions of Windows.

The 3-year milestone was in one case a huge deal for Windows every bit it marked the arrival of the side by side iteration of the OS, which certainly made both Microsoft and its OEM partners quite excited. But Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella decided to change things up and reduce the visitor'south dependence on its operating system by focusing his attention on cloud products.

This led to the birth of Microsoft Windows x, which instead of beingness a flashy new iteration that would meet its end in the side by side three years, is now delivered to the users as a service. The numeral increment in the Windows Os release was put to an end with Windows 10 and all new features are now delivered to your existing OS ever six odd months.

So, if you compare the beginning Windows x release from 2015 to the latest iteration, which was upgraded back in May, you lot would see a substantial difference in the feature set. While this difference is not going to be and so evident for regular Windows ten users, but someone who'due south simply jumping transport and checking out the latest version will be vowed with what the OS has become over the years.

Windows ten upgrades the modern UI from Windows viii.1, its immediate predecessor (yes, there is no Windows 9) with its Fluent blueprint elements. It too takes a huge leap with endless additions over the previous 3 years.

We've seen the Bone leave the clunky, onetime Control Panel behind in favor of a modern Settings app, tweak and improve the 'update process' to brand information technology seamless and faster, better the gaming feel, keep tweaking the notification middle, and recently introduced features such every bit the Timeline, Most Share, and more.

Windows 10 is currently running on almost 700 million devices.

However, we can now expect a whole lot more than from Microsoft. It is no longer as stuck upwards as information technology once was virtually Windows and is now moving ahead with the goal of creating a unified platform that volition exist backed past what's known as universal apps. Universal apps are designed to run across multiple platforms such equally PCs, tablets, smartphones, Xbox Ane consoles, and even Windows Mixed Reality devices, with nearly the same underlying code. It lays the foundation for the much-rumored Surface Phone, which gets me really excited.

Also, the all-time office of Windows x is that Microsoft is no longer waiting to build features and evangelize information technology later on years merely instead, now even you can test out the latest and upcoming features for the OS by beingness part of the company's Insider program. This is what the hereafter of Windows x beholds and I cannot await to run across what Microsoft has planned for the coming years. Are you lot a dedicated Windows 10 user? And take been for the past three years? Then be certain to allow us know what is your favorite characteristic in the comments down below.