Posted on 04/20/2015 1:33:32 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Buried in the question-and-answer section of AMD’s earnings call this past Friday was an interesting note on the release timing of Windows 10. According to AMD CEO Lisa Su, Windows 10 should be released in late July.
In response to a question regarding its channel inventory, Su said the following:
What we also are factoring in is, you know, with the Windows 10 launch at the end of July, we are watching sort of the impact of that on the back-to-school season, and expect that it might have a bit of a delay to the normal back-to-school season inventory build-up.
TechCrunch reached out to Microsoft for comment on the supposed release date.The company has yet to respond. It’s worth noting, as GeekWire pointed out this morning, Microsoft has said that Windows 10 will be released this summer. Now we have a firmer release date to expect.
Microsoft has been coy on a public, hard release date for Windows 10 as there is little upside in providing one. It likely doesn’t drive demand to have a public final date set so far in advance, and having any such benchmark would create another trip point for the software company to miss. And if you miss what amounts to little more than a synthetic deadline, you don’t gain much other than a news cycle that frets about what has gone wrong.
Windows 10 is Microsoft’s attempt to build a single operating system that can function across all computing form factors, from embedded chips, to smartphones and tablets, all the way through to PCs and even larger screens.
If Windows 10 fails to attract a large cadre of users quickly, it could miss its chance to attract developers, crippling its application store. To combat that, Microsoft is providing free upgrades to Windows 10 for Windows 7, 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1 users.
The “end of July” is about 102 days away. That’s just over three months. Can Microsoft pull it off?
A release date has never stopped microsoft from releasing an alpha version of their software to retail....
This is what “service packs” are for...
A bit on the close side. That’s 3 months, and there hasnt even been a Consumer Preview yet.
But they aren’t going to put this in a box and sell it in a CompUSA as their primary distribution method, so who knows.
8 was stupid. They TOLD the consumer what they will get. Not what they wanted. They left out a swit ch to turn off the anti-desktop crap they bambard you with in 8
Why MS has to take everything and throw it into a blender so you start from sctatch is beyond me.
I am hoping with this release of windows, we will finally be able to click on stuff, and maybe run software that can display web pages, or display pictures or video, or perhaps do some kind of word processing or spreadsheets or something, that would be awesome...been dreaming about something like that since the 80’s
The IT people who I talk to like even it in its current state better than either windows 7 or windows 8.1.
I expect it to be a better iteration than we have seen in a while.
Not sure what their reasons are, I myself happen to really like Windows 10's speed and efficiency with resources.
Microsoft really needs to drop the remaining "Metro" references with Control Panel for example. Popping up the Control Panel in a "Metro" like window is really bad form on the Windows 10 Desktop.
I don't know what they're thinking with keeping any "Metro" influence in Windows 10. People hated it with Windows 8.0 and 8.1, it's almost like someone at Microsoft can't admit that Metro in anything was a bad idea, period.
What I think Microsoft needs to do is bring back the Aeroglass interface. This flat Windows 10 interface is "ok" but sucks in comparison to Windows 7.
Aim high
Some of the “flat” icons in Windows 10 actually reminded me of Windows 3.0!!!
Anyone else notice a pattern?
The new browser *should* be a native app; as it exists now, it simply disappears whenever it crashes.
You’re browsing a website....the browser suddenly disappears—probably going to scare some users...
Windows ping
Windows 10 set to be released at the end of July... a service pack to fix Windows 10 released next day...
XP is still used on 3 of my computers...
Thanks to __rvx86 for the heads up!!
I didn't use the Aero effects much but they sure beat this flat look.
I have the same issue with Mac OS 10.10 Yosemite. What the hell got into the designers? I was disappointed by Microsoft's but I was shocked that Apple did it too. WTF.
It's gotta be something to do with having limited CPU/GPU horsepower in the handheld devices, and not wanting to waste battery life on shadows.
My personal fave was Windows 2000 Professional. Without the service packs, it only used about 35 megs of RAM and it ran like a scalded ape. After the service packs, not so good.
Not sure why so many people rag on Win 8. I have it on six boxes, a phone and a couple of tablets. It has been rock solid, spunkier and much less resource hungry than any other version I've used, including XP. I use Start8 and never look at a metro tile (other than on my phone) and it's just like the XP experience, but better.
Windows 8 is a fine operating system under the hood.
However, the hood sucks swamp water on a desktop or laptop, and it's hard for the average user to get it open enough to experience the nice operating system under the hood.
Get this into your head: Windows 8 users don't hate the operating system, they hate the User Interface.
PERIOD.
If you put the Metro UI on XP or Win7, they'd hate XP or Win7.
If you put the XP or Win7 UIs on Windows 8, they'd love Win8.
It's really not hard to understand.
Microsoft screwed the pooch bigtime with Metro.
And your use of "Start8" proves it.
No hard feelings, but you answered your own point! :)
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