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Microsoft Corp. gave its first public peek at the next version of its Windows operating system, pledging to give users a voice in the development of its most famous product and acknowledging that the current version veered off course. The new version will be called "Windows 10," skipping a number in the company's recent product naming convention.
The current version of the software, released two years ago, is called Windows 8. At a press event Tuesday in San Francisco, Microsoft showed some preliminary new features such as ways to switch more easily from one computing task to another, or work on multiple applications—such as email, Web browser and Excel spreadsheet—simultaneously in one screen.
The Windows "Start" menu also is getting a makeover, with new ways to see work software and social apps like Facebook in one spot. Microsoft executives said Windows 10 would launch sometime after next spring, but they declined to discuss other details, including timing or prices.
With the last release microsoft had to face a lot of criticism about the software and the whole start screen concot but with windows they want to do it right and With Windows 10, Microsoft is doing more to blend familiar "desktop" versions of Windows with the more smartphone-like apps Microsoft introduced in Windows 8.
"We didn't quite get it right," Microsoft executive Joe Belfiore said at the event when asked about windows 8.
5 biggest changes
Return of the Start Menu
Microsoft Store Apps on the Desktop
It’s great to see you again, classic desktop! In addition to the resurrection of the Start menu, Microsoft is adding the ability to run Windows Store apps in a window that you can resize and move around, instead of going full screen or snapping them side by side, like in Windows 8.1. With this power, the desktop will once again become the location where you spend most, if not all, of your computing time.
Multitasking Is Getting Easier
You’ll also be able to manage all those apps much better. When you snap a window to the side, the software will now suggest apps you might want to run next to it. Also, a new task-view button will show you all your running apps on one screen.
Many Desktops
No really, Microsoft’s going all in on the desktop. Taking a page from Apple’s Mac OS X, Windows 10 will allow you to create multiple virtual desktops that you can toggle between—perhaps one would focus on your work while another concentrates all of those social media distractions. A taskbar will allow you to view thumbnails of the different spaces, soyou can easily move between them.
The Tablet-Laptop Handoff
One of the biggest issues with Windows 8.1 was that the Start Screen was great on tablets, but terrible on a laptop or desktop. Windows 10 is geared for laptops, desktops, tablets—and now even phones. But when it comes to devices like the Surface Pro 3 that do double duty as a laptop and a tablet, Windows 10 will morph to suit your needs at the moment.
“We are going to do some magical things when you remove the keyboard,” said Chris Flores, communications director for Microsoft’s Operating System Group. When asked if the Start Screen would appear, he said “The Start Screen is an important part of the Windows strategy—on the right device.”
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