MICROSOFT’S CUSTOMERS HAVE grown used to floating lazily from one Windows release to the next…Windows 95, 98, XP…rousing as they bumped through the rapids of Windows Vista, then relaxing again as Windows 7 flowed gently ahead for several years. Then— SPLASH!— as Windows 8 landed, customers sputtered and swore. Some jumped ship. Since then, everything that Microsoft has done has been designed to lure customers back into that comfortable, productive world that Windows established. For me, that’s been achieved. Windows 10 feels like Windows; I made the mental shift from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10 during the weeks I’ve spent with it as a Windows Insider.
That was a very clever tactic, by the way, to encourage users to overcome their unfamiliarity with the What’s next for Windows 10? Windows 10 Mobile. OS as beta testers. I don’t like the Edge browser. I do like the vast majority of Windows 10, even with the bugs. Microsoft needed an additional month or more to buff out more dings and dents on its new OS, but in the new world of continual updates, maybe that’s the wrong attitude. Over the next few months, Microsoft will deliver Windows 10 Mobile, plus a few of the Windows 10 updates to the eagerly anticipated HoloLens and even the Xbox One. During that time, we expect a more cohesive Edge experience and—fingers crossed—some aesthetic tweaks to Microsoft’s apps as well. Only then will Microsoft’s ambitious Windows 10 vision be fully realized. We haven't changed our verdict, or our score, after retesting with the Windows 10.0 code. Download it, definitely. Not only is it free to the vast majority of customers, it’s a sizeable improvement on both of Microsoft’s prior operating systems. Microsoft, to its very great credit, has assumed a corporate persona of humility and responsiveness that it has previously lacked. If there are problems—and there are—we have every confidence they’ll be fixed.
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