Microsoft Windows 10 Has A Reliable Advantage Over MacOS Catalina

Forbes ^ | Nov 17,2019 | Ewan Spence

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Alongside the announcement of the Surface Duo, Microsoft announced a new version of Windows - Windows 10X - that would power the upcoming dual-screen device. It’s going to look very familiar to Windows 10, but with some tweaks to improve the UI for dual screened devices.

Windows 10X is part of Microsoft’s push towards a modular version of Windows 10, so 10X should be regarded as a branch of Windows 10 for dual screened devices, just as there are versions of Windows 10 that branch out to support HoloLens, Surface Hub, and Xbox.

This weekend saw reports of a leaked internal design document around Windows 10X and a number of key areas where 10X will take a different path to the vanilla Windows 10. It also suggested that some of the options in 10X could make their way to the more traditional laptop formats with single screen setups.

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This is where Microsoft is playing a better game than Apple. As witnessed by the recent changes to MacOS with Catalina, Apple is working on an annual tempo of releases and new things need to happen ‘on schedule’ for the preview at WWDC in June and the public availability of the next version of in September...

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Followup:

After posting my comment above, I decided to upgrade in-place from 1903 to 1909. Very easy, surprisingly quick (less than 20 minutes), and everything still works.

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For that very reason, I always wait as long as I can before upgrading an OS. Ran XP to the end, and now System 7.

I’ve been using NTI’s Backup EZ to USB drives in fire safes for years now. Never tried the disk image feature, but I probably will now. Thanks for the advice.

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> Windows 10 is 4 years old. What am I missing? It should be more "reliable" than a new release although Apple's releases have been a bit dodgy in the QA dept.

Windows 10 was released in 2015 barely even half-baked. It was a huge change from Win7 and nowhere near ready for prime time. The releases since then have all be a combination of: a) fixing the existing bugs, b) adding features that should have been there, and c) fixing the new bugs in the added features. Very little has been “added” that wasn’t already in Win7 in some form, other than Cortana, which has turned out to be of dubious value, and of course the spyware telemetry.

> I miss Steve.

Jobs or Ballmer? :-)