So if you don’t know about this, then you haven’t been really keeping up with technology or computers are not really your thing. Maybe you don’t even know what this is, since you’ve been using an Apple system your entire life, but for your average, friendly Microsoft Windows user the following is huge news. Windows 10 is coming out. Yay!!! Gone will be a terrible failure of in the form of Windows 8; in is an OS that will hopefully be Microsoft best and final legacy. Yes, this is the final Windows OS, and not because Microsoft went bankrupt–Windows 10 is simply going to be their final OS. That is not even the best part. The cherry on top is that Windows 10 is free!! This is definitely somewhat to be expected after their epic Windows 8 failure, thereby causing users to stick to Windows 7 or even XP. Additionally, Microsoft needs to compete with Apple’s free OS–and will essentially be adopting Apple’s approach: Keep the OS free and send periodic updates to the OS as Apple does now. But how they plan to update is an insignificant part of what this OS must be.
Windows 10 must be perfect. When I say perfect, I mean it. It must be flawless, because if they don’t plan to release any other OS it means they have no future chance to redeem themselves. It must be something that Windows users love because that’s what we must live with for the rest of our lives, choosing either to use the final Windows 10 interface devised by the programmers at Microsoft, or to stick with the legacy versions such as the great Windows 7 or the even greater XP. Another reason why it is free is to attract all customers with their previous operating systems to upgrade to the new one because Microsoft is just sick and tired of supporting multiple platforms. It is costly for them to maintain multiple platforms. Furthermore, moving everyone to one system gets them closer to the dream of being able to interface their many platforms together.
The thing is, I do not know how convinced any of the general population can be. Sure, the OSs made by Microsoft have had their ups and downs; like Windows XP, one of the greatest OSs, and something like Windows 8 which took away the Windows button and Start menu, features that made the Windows OS a Windows OS. All I can say is that Microsoft is treading very carefully this time. If they do manage to provide an OS even better than XP, Microsoft will keep its legacy running for generations to come. Else, we might all have to switch to Apple or other Linux systems.
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