Microsoft put something back in Windows 8.1 but the lack of the start menu and the impossibility to have a real true in house start button makes people use Windows XP more than they use Windows 8 even with all new machines coming with preinstalled Windows 8.
Will Windows 10 be the best Windows yet? I hope so. Microsoft continues to make a good version of Windows after a bad version and I think Microsoft learned a lot in the last three years. They know that people want to work with the computer the same way they have always worked. They don't want metro interfaces or touch screens. They want to work, not to have fun sliding the screen.
Windows 10 features promise to be a success. Back to the start button, a better start menu and improve cloud interface are the advantages Microsoft has been talking about. One single Windows version for all devices is another advantage Microsoft promised to end with the confusion of one version per device. It also has a new task view to make easier to switch between applications. Apps will come back. Remember when Windows Vista had all those useful gadets such as notes, cpu usage and the weather? Now some of them are back. There will be one entire application dedicated to thse smaller apps.
I just hope that search continues to work the same way it works on Windows 7. We rely on search more than anything to find one particular file in a sea of hundreds of thousands. Windows 8 search is slow and useless. Instead of opening a new screen with the search results, it shows just about 10 files from the entire computer and there is no way to refine the search or to save those search results. The end result? Solutions like Copernic and X1 became featured in computer magazines as the best search.
We are yet to know if Windows 8 users will be able to upgrade to Windows 10 for free. I hope so because Windows 8 is expensive and not worth the price. For less dollars you can still get Windows 7.
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