{"id":8404,"date":"2014-10-05T08:35:06","date_gmt":"2014-10-05T12:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=8404"},"modified":"2014-10-05T08:35:06","modified_gmt":"2014-10-05T12:35:06","slug":"windows-10-the-end-of-an-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/windows-10-the-end-of-an-era\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 10: The End of an Era?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<h1 class=\"entry_title\">Windows 10 marks end of an era<\/h1>\n<p class=\"subtitle\">This could be the last big version of Windows. After version 10, Microsoft could abandon big product release cycles in favour of smaller, more regular iterations. By Duncan McLeod.<\/p>\n<div class=\"single_postmeta\">\n<div id=\"gab_share_widget-2\" class=\"widget gab_share_widget\">\n<div class=\"widgetinner\">\n<div class=\"share_firstrow\">\n<div id=\"fb-root\" class=\" fb_reset\">Was Microsoft really that desperate to distance itself from what commentator Paul Thurrott calls the Windows 8 \u201cFrankenstein\u2019s monster\u201d that one full version number for the next version wasn\u2019t enough?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Microsoft announced this week that it will jump past version 9 and go straight to Windows 10.<\/p>\n<p>The official line from Redmond is that it\u2019s to signify that the next version, due out in final form in about a year from now, is a really big deal. But the changes \u2014 the new operating system will be a mash-up of the best elements of Windows 7 and Windows 8 \u2014 aren\u2019t really that dramatic.<\/p>\n<p>Certainly, the operating system isn\u2019t being rewritten from the ground up, so it does seem that Microsoft wants to move on from Windows 8 as fast as possible. Like the runt of the litter, it\u2019s not getting much love.<\/p>\n<p>The problem with Windows 8 \u2014 and its upgrade, Windows 8.1 \u2014 is that it feels like two operating systems in one. It has a split personality.<\/p>\n<p>It offers users the traditional desktop, albeit without the Start menu first introduced in the mid-1990s with Windows 95, but it also has a tile-based user interface \u2014 the modern UI, also called Metro \u2014 which is designed first and foremost for touch, not keyboard and mouse. The two interfaces never gelled. The modern UI felt like a kludge, a solution in search of a problem.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/98RpUe\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read the rest here.<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/98RpUe\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Source: TechCentral<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windows 10 marks end of an era This could be the last big version of Windows. After version 10, Microsoft could abandon big product release cycles in favour of smaller, more regular iterations. By Duncan McLeod. Was Microsoft really that desperate to distance itself from what commentator Paul Thurrott calls the Windows 8 \u201cFrankenstein\u2019s monster\u201d that one full\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/windows-10-the-end-of-an-era\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1674],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8404"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8405,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8404\/revisions\/8405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}