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Windows 10 launches this summer in 190 countries around the world

45 points| anilmujagic | 11 years ago |blogs.microsoft.com

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daemin|11 years ago

It may be a south-of-the-equator mentality, but it's not going to be summer in all of the 190 countries when Windows 10 is launched. differing calendars aside could USA-centric press releases just mention the month rather than the season?

AnkhMorporkian|11 years ago

They haven't announced a month, and there may be good reasons for that. They may have a target goal in mind, but still want wiggle-room if unexpected issues come up, and 'summer' sounds a heck of a lot better than 'At some point in the months of x and y'

Quppa|11 years ago

That's really soon, which fills me with dread. The UI as seen in the most recent pre-release builds is atrocious and it seems to be getting worse, not better, with each build.

Just look at these icons: http://www.neowin.net/news/windows-10-10036-83-updated-icons...

Perhaps they're pulling another 'Watercolor' (the pre-release decoy Windows XP theme that was replaced by Luna at the last minute), but I'm not getting my hopes up.

yuhong|11 years ago

Luckily at least the start menu should be fixed before RTM, as far as I know.

nerdy|11 years ago

It's going to be free for some Win7/Win8 users[1], I still use Win7 so I'm looking forward to the upgrade.

1: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2873214/windows-10-will-be-a-...

yaeger|11 years ago

You must have a lot of faith in Microsoft when you consider giving up your stable Windows7 in favor a dot zero release of an Operating System that in a lot of way still looks like Windows8. Unless I can see any kind of track record that it is indeed stable, all the cloud crap can be disabled and they actually put back Themes so I can get rid of everything "modern" or metro or whatever they call this nonsense, I am very happy sticking with 7 for at least the next 5 years.

tempestn|11 years ago

I think this is as excited as I've been for a Windows release since '95. Which isn't saying a whole lot, but still, this will be the first time I've felt any desire to try upgrading to a new release as soon as it becomes available in 20 years.

Urgo|11 years ago

"summer" okay... so I guess by Sept 22nd. Not very descriptive for a news story..

BigChiefSmokem|11 years ago

Is this for OEMs only? Usually it's a paper launch until October for consumers.

aceperry|11 years ago

LOL, windows 8 users can't wait.

james-skemp|11 years ago

Meh. I can.

Windows 8 works quite well on both of my touch capable laptops, my gaming rig, and old 4-5 year development machine.

With 8.1 the Start button is back, but pressing the Windows key on the keyboard and selecting one of the pinned applications, or typing for search, works perfectly.

It took a while for me to put aside my feeling that things had to stay how they were, but once I did (touch capable device helped) I liked it. A lot.

I hope 10 refines things further. With the cost of touch capable Windows machines so low, the installed OS needs to work.

Edit: and if they can improve startup times even further with 10? Wow. Windows 8 was already faster than 7 on the same machines, even older machines and on non-SSD drives.

cyberjunkie|11 years ago

Show us the Raspberry Pi 2 goods!

tdicola|11 years ago

Don't get your hopes up, by all accounts 'Windows 10' on the Pi 2 is a special version just for running GUI-less embedded applications. Look at what they have already for the Galileo/Edison (C++ only apps, no GUI) and extrapolate a little bit from there.

NeutronBoy|11 years ago

The terrible media circus that said Windows 8/10 would run on a Raspberry Pi forgot to mention that it would be the embedded editions of Windows, specifically designed to run IoT-type apps. Not the desktop version.