Windows 10 challenge: Making people care about Windows

    Windows 10 challenge: Making people care about Windows

    Windows 10 challenge: Making people care about Windows


    Posted: 20 Jan 2015

    There's much more to getting Windows 10 right than just perfecting the code. Microsoft needs to make us enthusiastic about Windows once again.

    For Windows 10 to be a success, Microsoft only has to make a great operating system, right?

    Wrong.

    I used to be a Windows guy, but then I moved to Mac for my day to day computing, and that made me much happier and productive. However, the more I use the Windows 10 preview, the more I like it. To me, it is proof positive that Microsoft has it within itself to build on what Windows 7 had to offer and deliver an operating system that can combine traditional keyboard and mouse inputs with the modern touch idea in a meaningful - not to mention productivity-boosting - way.

    But Microsoft has a bigger challenge to address than just making Windows 10 an operating system that combines the old and the new. Microsoft has to make people enthusiastic about operating systems once again.

    Cast your mind back to the launch of Windows 95 - if you can remember that far back - and recall the excitement and enthusiasm that surrounded that release. Microsoft spent hundreds of millions of dollars on building up hype around that operating system, and while it was unquestionably flawed, it got people who had never heard of "Windows" talking about Windows 95. The excitement was palpable.

    People were fervently passionate about Windows, and most didn't really know why. They bought PCs with Windows 95 on them, read magazines about Windows 95, and even watched VHS tapes of their favorite TV stars using Windows 95.
    Read more: The Windows 10 challenge: Making people care about Windows again | ZDNet
    Brink's Avatar Posted By: Brink
    20 Jan 2015


  1. Posts : 22,740
    Windows 10 Home x64
       #1

    Just my 2c.. I look for the OS to allow me to run the apps/programs that I need and to have an interface that I both enjoy using and doesn't get in my way. I don't know how well Win10 will be received but at this point I think it will be.

    I just don't like the usage of the term "fan".. I'm a consumer and I want to be treated like one.

    Jeff
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  2. Posts : 239
    Windows 10 Pro 64bit
       #2

    BunnyJ said:
    Just my 2c.. I look for the OS to allow me to run the apps/programs that I need and to have an interface that I both enjoy using and doesn't get in my way. I don't know how well Win10 will be received but at this point I think it will be.

    I just don't like the usage of the term "fan".. I'm a consumer and I want to be treated like one.

    Jeff
    Ditto.

    Windows is just the platform to launch & run multiple programs and should be user friendly in the process providing easy access to it's functionality - that's where (IMHO) Windows 8 failed & why I stuck with Windows 7 on my desktop & even stayed with my current laptop (W7) rather than replace it with one with a W8 OS.
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  3. Posts : 23,195
    Windows 10
       #3

    I agree that Windows is just the platform used to launch apps/programs

    For me though I find the Windows 8 way the most user friendly and nicest to operate and hoping that MS gives the option to carry on working this way in 10
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  4. Posts : 487
       #4

    As a Mac user surely he should be more concerned about OSX, as that's the OS with the low market share?


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