Windows 10X was announced way back in 2019 and it's finally launching later this year on a new range of 2-in-1s/notebooks from Microsoft partners. Unlike Windows 10, Windows 10X would be simple, sleek, faster, and more secure. Microsoft is also pushing Windows 10 productivity features such as Smart Scopes, Lockscreen military grade screen blanking, and more while stripping out features like notifications and 'things' like having the OS run the startup servers for you.
Windows 10X also looks more like Windows 10 than anything we've seen in quite some time, with a clean line of white, a set of slanted curves with a light grey accent around the edge. There's also an unusual key under the Windows button, giving the OS its own function key.
Additionally, Microsoft is eliminating the clunky traditional Start menu in favor of a wholly new application menu seen off in the passing seems on either side of the arch-shaped Start button. While your two machine need the same incompatible table of functions and shortcuts, this richer interface is apparently easier to learn.
The interface also provides new turn-by-turn directions, parking directions, next alarm, shutdown and shutdown big, battery saver, and camera pitch/vibration functions. Cortana (as this is called now) takes up an additional row of controls on the left hand side, providing functionality from sharing folders, moving media, tasks, emails and speed dial in an effort to make Cortana 'dumb' or just generic enough and a natural aspirational choice from a Windows 10 perspective.
All of this tech has been the talk of the tech press for months as Microsoft has been testing the interstices with developers, and last week faced down a recent surge in piracy on torrent sites that has resulted in more OS 9's being ill-fated than good.
Will it be the OS that transforms computing?
If you're tired of Windows and risks loving Windows 10X, then Windows 10 may seem like a good enough OS to start with. It's familiar, it's clean and doesn't feel like running pidgin MS apps. However, I am sick of patting myself on the back for Windows 10 and the rest of Microsoft's position on customers and I have decided to let Microsoft off the hook almost entirely. Windows 10 is a strange spritz of gloss, futuristry and homebrew fanboyism.
Windows 10 is holding the rug up by their feet, hoping that someone else will adapt to come up with something better. This is a classic case of reboot engineer technology manifesting in a form. Windows 10's versatility and versatility alone is worth something but it's also all of Microsoft's previously awesome OEM partner positioning to give you the narrative that, when
Windows 10X also looks more like Windows 10 than anything we've seen in quite some time, with a clean line of white, a set of slanted curves with a light grey accent around the edge. There's also an unusual key under the Windows button, giving the OS its own function key.
Additionally, Microsoft is eliminating the clunky traditional Start menu in favor of a wholly new application menu seen off in the passing seems on either side of the arch-shaped Start button. While your two machine need the same incompatible table of functions and shortcuts, this richer interface is apparently easier to learn.
The interface also provides new turn-by-turn directions, parking directions, next alarm, shutdown and shutdown big, battery saver, and camera pitch/vibration functions. Cortana (as this is called now) takes up an additional row of controls on the left hand side, providing functionality from sharing folders, moving media, tasks, emails and speed dial in an effort to make Cortana 'dumb' or just generic enough and a natural aspirational choice from a Windows 10 perspective.
All of this tech has been the talk of the tech press for months as Microsoft has been testing the interstices with developers, and last week faced down a recent surge in piracy on torrent sites that has resulted in more OS 9's being ill-fated than good.
Will it be the OS that transforms computing?
If you're tired of Windows and risks loving Windows 10X, then Windows 10 may seem like a good enough OS to start with. It's familiar, it's clean and doesn't feel like running pidgin MS apps. However, I am sick of patting myself on the back for Windows 10 and the rest of Microsoft's position on customers and I have decided to let Microsoft off the hook almost entirely. Windows 10 is a strange spritz of gloss, futuristry and homebrew fanboyism.
Windows 10 is holding the rug up by their feet, hoping that someone else will adapt to come up with something better. This is a classic case of reboot engineer technology manifesting in a form. Windows 10's versatility and versatility alone is worth something but it's also all of Microsoft's previously awesome OEM partner positioning to give you the narrative that, when
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