At the 30th of September Microsoft held a press conference announcing the next version of Windows. For some time it has only been known as Windows Threshold, its codename, by Microsoft. The community often speculated that it would be named Windows 9.
While we still are in a very early stage of the development of Windows 10, we can already see a big difference in how Microsoft has developed this new version of Windows. With a much larger focus on what the community, its users, think of the operating system Microsoft is inviting everyone, brave enough, to test Windows 10 using the free technical preview. Windows 10 will not only be for tablets like many have thought about Windows 8. Windows 10 will be the only operating system ranging from ARM devices such as a vending machine or a kiosk to phones, Azure and Xbox. All different devices will be running Windows 10.
Microsoft is pushing that enterprises are an important customer for Microsoft and that Microsoft is indeed listening to the feedback they have got so far. And Microsoft wants enterprises to continue giving feedback on the products. Therefore they are inviting customers to start testing Windows 10 as of the 1st of October this year.
Some of the key changes that comes with Windows 10 are
Start menu is back
While we still have support for tiles, we have a familiar start menu for those users coming from Windows 7
Modern Apps can now run in window mode
We now see that modern apps can run in a window mode, not only full screen allowing users to run modern apps at the same time as traditional apps
- Multiple desktops
Native support for multiple (virtual) desktops where different apps can run in different “modes” if you will so that you can switch between “social apps desktop” and “work desktop” quickly, without minimizing multiple applications back and forth
Adapting OS based on form
Depending on the form factor, Windows will behave differently. This is quite obvious since we will have the same Windows on Phones as on PCs. But Windows will be different if you have touch or not as well so that “two-in-one” devices still can be both laptops and tablets.
Windows 10 will be managed by the current management platform
You will be able to manage Windows 10 with the software that you are already using in your environment today and Windows 10 will fit perfectly with the Modern Workplace vision that Lumagate is presenting at a webinar on the 7th of October
Lumagate is working together with Microsoft to start supporting customers willing to evaluating Windows 10 in the best possible way. Contact our sales department or our Product Manager for Enterprise Client Management, Tim Nilimaa-Svärd, if you have any questions about how Lumagate can help your company to start the journey to Windows 10 – today.
