Windows 8 didn't exactly set the world alight—market research firms say the number of computers running it is a fraction of those still using Windows XP—and Microsoft has decided to skip a number and go straight to 10 for its latest operating system. "Windows 10 will be our most comprehensive platform ever," a Microsoft exec said at a business conference yesterday. "It wouldn't be right to call it Windows 9." Inside Microsoft, the project was called Threshold, and some expected the company to completely ditch the Windows name, the Guardian reports. Some reactions to Microsoft's preview of Windows 10, which will run on a wide range of devices, with apps sold from a single store:
- The Start menu—whose absence was one of the most jarring changes seen in Windows 8—is being welcomed back. "It is critically important," a tech consultant tells the BBC. "The Start menu is perhaps the most important thing that will make the desktop experience familiar to business users, and will help reduce resistance to its installation."