Lately there has been debates online with accompanying polls asking whether Microsoft will be able to deliver the final version of Windows 10 before the end of Summer as promised by them. Many people does not believe Microsoft will be finished with the “Final” version of Windows 10 before then.
See, that is exactly the problem. People are still in the old mindset of Microsoft toiling away in some labs then bringing the final product to market, only to disappear to the said bunker again to start working on the next version. That notion is gone people! There is no more “Final” version of Windows. We are in the Era of Windows-as-a-Service. The era of continuous improvement of Windows, in which Microsoft works on different components of Windows and deliver them as updates as soon as they are ready.
So what you will have at the end of summer is a Windows OS that work as Microsoft wants at the end of Summer. It will be different from the Windows OS you will have at the end of the year. That temporal separation of Windows OSes is no more. If Windows works for you by the end of summer, it is what you get, if it doesn’t, wait for down the line improvements.
I have been on Fast-Ring of Windows 10, I have made it my Production OS since inception. I can see it improving with time. It will continue that way. It works for me as of today, it will even be better at end of Summer. This is the new Windows, and this is the new Microsoft people. Get used to it. The Windows you see at the end of Summer is the Windows you get. Period. Is it final? How do you define final for an OS Microsoft is calling Windows-as-a-Service?
Danny, you make a good point, and I am pretty confident you understand the new Windows the same way I understand the new Windows. I think you’re right that Windows will be constantly updated with new features and updates pumped up as they are necessary. However, at the time the Windows 10 SKU is available, it should be understood that it will be stable from QA and have all the new-age functionality available. Windows should have all the announced features available fromt the get-go, but with their new model they can push features and patches whenever they want to. The new terms of service just tells us that whatever update comes about, we, as the consumers, have to accept it. But I mean, you’re right. If Windows 10 wasn’t all what you hoped it to be at launch, later down the road it could get compatibility for some kind of new peripheral or hardware component, and an OS update will set you up to have an enjoyable experience with the OS. I think it’s a pretty solid update. I believe that the Technical Preview will still go on because it seems to be working. It probably won’t be as crucial as it is now before 10 officially ships, but the extra data Microsoft is getting certainly is changing the future of Windows as we know it.
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I ser what you are trying to say, but people’s complainings are right.
The new era of windows, you say. It’s true, they are in a new era, but is that era really good? Just ask users (the power and concient users, not some casual or famboys users) from windows phone what they think about this “new era”.
I’ll tell you what this has meaning to me, a dissapointed wp user. You say Microsoft will give us what they think is right by the end of the summer and then update it at the end of the year. That sound to me like they can’t finish all the good features in time, so they are going to gives some half baked OS, have something to give to the masses and gain time to finally finish everything, ready for the new update. Good idea? Maybe. Just look at windows 8, Microsoft did the same and people ended hating it, because they first delivered an incomplete os and the really good thing was until 8.1
Now look an the wp world. What happened there? Well, most developers, including Microsoft do this: they publish an incomplete/beta/” final” app just to soon™ update it to make it really functional. That’s our everyday, we are full of betas and practically we have the word soon™ registered, because that’s the word we always hear or see.
Is that the path Microsoft is going to take won’t windows in general? Well, the that sucks. That fucking sucks.
(All of this come from my really frustrating experience with wp, so please take it with care)
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