Windows 10

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Nope that's not a miss type.
New windows is windows 10

Windows 10 technical preview available tomorrow for desktops and laptops.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/preview-coming-soon

Consumer side will be shown off at Build 2015

Release date later in 2015- no pricing/upgrade info yet




  • built from the ground up for a mobile-first cloud-first world
  • one app store
  • resizable and title bar modern apps
  • Start menu is back
  • improved search
  • windows 7 snap view works with both classic and modern apps
  • new task view button, that will show all open apps (OS X's Expose)
  • snap assist where you can grab apps from multiple desktops
  • improved cmd prompted, now allows ctrl+v (looks identical though)
  • left swipe in on touch devices, is now replaced with task view
  • two in one devices start screen
  • charm bar is staying but will evolve, no new style yet though.

Q: Can you talk about the name? Seems weird going from Windows 8 to Windows 10.
A: This product, when you see the product in your fullness I think you'll agree with us that it's a more appropriate name.

Q: You mentioned screens ranging from 4 inches to 80 inches. Is Windows 10 the next version of the phone operating system too?
A: Yes

Part of the reason we organized the way we did, is there will be champions of every device type. It was intentional to put together the PC, tablet, phone. Similar capabilities, but at the end they differ.

You're likely to be an owner of both devices. The real rub comes in the middle... convertible devices. There's a lot of magic in the devices that can be a great laptop and also flexes to be a tablet.

We also have a core team that builds common technology that's shared across all devices.

Q: Are you guaranteeing yet that all apps built for Windows Store will work on this?
A: We're committed to keeping those apps running.
A: We're building Windows 10 to support the apps that are out there already.

Q: What happens to ARM-based Surfaces?
A: Our general intent is to make this available as an update for the vast majority of devices.
 
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Anyone noticed this is a technical preview, we've never had one of them before. That's before developer preview. they'll have to work some, if April release is true.
 
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Without desktop, but they've shown no device with it themselves (Which they should have tbh).

Oh well, I'm probably going to jump to an X86 tablet.

There's what looks like an 8" tablet with the start screen showing. rather than desktop like in the bigger tablets shown
 
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