Summary: Windows 10 gives new life to Windows – it’s a truly-modern operating system that caters to the needs of users together with being better accessible across various devices. It’s launching on July 29 and the best of all, its prerelease builds are forever free. Sounds interesting, right? Read on.
Windows 10 is the next big thing from Microsoft. It’s an ingenious version of the Windows operating system – an entirely new version that comes with new look, new browser, new apps and new features. It’s idealized from the success story of performance-giving Windows 7 and the failures of modern-looking Windows 8, and promises to provide the best of both worlds.
Are you waiting eagerly for July 29? Let’s check out what’s in the store.
Windows 10 is much more than its predecessors of the Windows NT family. The biggest change is its release as a Software-as-a-Service rather than a stand-alone software like the previous versions. The biggest surprise is its availability for free! Yes, Microsoft is offering a free preview copy of Windows 10 to anyone ready to test the new operating system under the Windows Insider Program.
Likewise, there is much more about Windows 10. That’s why, we’ve made a compilation of 11 facts about Windows 10 to help you know what to expect from the forthcoming version of Windows.
1. Windows 10 (Preview) is Free
Windows 10 is the product of the Microsoft’s innovative engineering and the feedback of 5 million Windows Insiders who tested the preview builds and provided over more than 800K pieces of feedback to the company to help them build a better product. In return, Microsoft is happy to provide them a free copy of Windows 10 Preview build under the Windows Insider Program.
These prerelease builds will continue to update as more preview builds are provided for testers and thus your Windows 10 Preview will be activated till you keep updating to latest preview builds. That means, it’s possible to get a pre-release or beta version of Windows 10 that’s free forever!
2. Windows 10 is the Last Windows
“Right now we’re releasing Windows 10, and because Windows 10 is the last version of Windows, we’re all still working on Windows 10“. That was the statement from Jerry Nixon, Microsoft’s developer evangelist, speaking at Microsoft’s Ignite conference. Is this the end of Windows?
Negative!
Microsoft is changing the approach of building and delivering the next-gen Windows. There won’t be a Windows 11 just after a year to cost you bucks, but your same Windows 10 will get incremental updates adding features and improving stability and performance of the same for next several years.
3. Start Menu is Back
Windows 10 brings back the favorite Start menu – quite same as the Start menu that has always greeted you on pressing the Start button in previous versions of Microsoft’s operating system. But it’s not the very same as can be expected – it’s redesigned to serve the purpose of two: the Start menu of Windows 7 and its predecessors as well as the Start screen of Windows 8.
Press the Start button or the Windows key and the Start menu pops up with your most-used apps stacked in a column on left. Press the All Appsbutton and you’ll find the alphabetically grouped list of installed programs. Live tiles from Start screen sits on the right, continuously serving up news & weather bytes and social-media updates.
4. Welcome Microsoft Edge
Microsoft Edge (code named Project Spartan) replaces venerable Internet Explorer in the new Windows. Internet Explorer has lost its charm in last some years and Edge attempts to keep up the Microsoft’s idea of completely refreshing the Windows experience. It’s based on a brand-new rendering engine that improves performance and brings distinctive sharing functionality.