Microsoft's CEO: Windows 10 Is Here to Change the “Old Windows Approach”

[Matsuda]

Microsoft is aiming to change the approach it has when it comes to updates and improvements shipped to users and that's exactly what the company's new CEO Satya Nadella said in a recent interview during a conference in Switzerland.

Not like the old Windows

Windows 10 will bring users updates at a slower pace, so new features and improvements won't be part of service packs or large releases, as it currently happens with older versions of Windows.

The new OS will be used to keep users fully up to date and a new built-in update system allows the company to ship new builds to users without the need for a clean install, which is clearly a big improvement in terms of time and resources needed to deploy new updates.

“This is different approach than we've done in the past when we would spring new releases to our customers once every three years and this one is much more of our approach that that is of these times, I would say,” Nadella explained during a short interview.

No new Windows coming after Windows 10

People close to the matter said that Windows 10 might actually be the last stand-alone Windows version released by Microsoft, as the company could switch to a completely different approach that would bring large updates delivered to systems automatically, without the need for clean installs.

That's actually the purpose behind this new strategy and some sources even hinted that Windows 10 might in the end launch just as “Windows” to better signal the adoption of a completely new approach for the desktop OS.

Most of these details are really scarce right now and nobody knows for sure whether Microsoft would adopt such a dramatic strategy change for Windows, but there's no doubt that the company needs to adopt a new direction for the revamped operating system in order to distance itself from Windows 8 and bring back disappointed customers.




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[mjall]

it's a nightmare if true but i suppose it's because currently they are thinking about mobiles which is dominant among all OS platforms but they will always differentiate between desktop and mobiles after windows8