The secret behind why Windows 10 is so good [Microsoft Listened to you, more than anything else]

CNN Money ^ | 06/12/2015 | David Goldman

[SeekAndFind]

Microsoft listened to you. More than anything else, that's why Windows 10 won't be another Windows 8 or Vista.

In conversations with CNNMoney, top decision makers at Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Toshiba noted that Microsoft requested their input throughout the process of creating Windows 10. They said Microsoft listened to their feedback -- and, vicariously, PC customers' feedback -- and made a better operating system as a result.

Responding to customer demands. The PC makers said that process was vastly improved from the way that Microsoft (MSFT, Tech30) conducted its business ahead of the Windows 8 launch. They said Windows 8 felt forced on them while Windows 10 felt like more of a conversation.

"It's pretty cool how responsive Microsoft has been to feedback," said Mike Nash, HP's head of product strategy. "We were right there in the room planning Windows 10 with them from very beginning."

"There's a new dawn at Microsoft," said Allison Dew, Dell's marketing chief (and a former Microsoft employee). "What we've seen in terms of development and cooperation with Microsoft this time around is unlike what we've seen in past years."

Windows is good again. The result, they say is a much more refined operating system that customers will get excited about. That's a very different experience from Windows 8, which literally had customers calling their PC companies in droves wondering how to get to the desktop or turn their PCs off.

"We're more excited about this launch than we have been in a really long time," said Dew. "I've been through amazing windows launches and some that weren't quite as amazing. This has the feel of something amazing."

"Windows 8 was a difficult out-of-the-box adjustment to consumers," said Jeff Barney, head of Toshiba's U.S. PC business.

[SmokingJoe]

Say what you will about Bill Gates, he is not gay. On the other hand, your Lord and master Tim Cook is as homo as they come. I’d cut my losses and run if I were you, boy.

[Fido969]

Say what you will about Bill Gates, he is not gay.

And you know that because he turned down your passes?

[SmokingJoe]

Naaah. He happens to be a loving husband to a WOMAN and has been for over 10 years. Tim Cook? Not only is he a sexual deviant homo, he kept that particular detail hidden for decades in till some CNBC reporter leaked that little tidbit by mistake. Then he had his James McGreevey moment “I am a proud gay American”.
Chortle! If he was so.proud of it, how come he went to great efforts to keep it hidden for decades?
Now why don't you be a good boy and run along?

[Fido969]

He happens to be a loving husband to a WOMAN and has been for over 10 years.

Must be a great disappointment to you.

[SmokingJoe]

Naaaah. It's a source of great joy for me. Can't say the same about your honey Tim Cook and his propensity for buggering other men though. So sorry.

[Fido969]

It's a source of great joy for me.

Big relief, huh?

[hsmomx3]

I signed up to get version 10 but now after hearing that my media player will no longer work, I am having many doubts. I am not computer savvy enough to know what the heck I am doing if something goes wrong with other programs, drivers, etc..

[mountainlion]

I know what you mean. I did quite well until they started the “user friendly” stuff that did not work. I have to have windows 8.1 to sign up for windows 10 but my computer can not find the “store” to download it.

[hsmomx3]

I hate all of these changes. If only a major update would be compatible with everything, this would be so easy.