Showing posts with label spartan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label spartan. Show all posts

Thursday, 22 January 2015

Why Windows 10 might help MS bounce back

Windows has been the ruler of Operating Systems for long time. But recently other operating systems especially Linux flavors like Ubuntu, Red Hat, etc are taking up the market and giving big competition to Windows. With their last OS not being a big success (Windows 8), it is important for Microsoft to bounce back with Windows 10. As this is the first OS release after Nadella became CEO of MS, there is a big expectation as what he will bring to the market.


The Windows event on 21st Jan stood up to the expectations. They revealed many other products like holographic glass along with first look to Windows 10.

How Windows 10 will give big competition to the growing OSs ?

First time in their history, MS is giving away Windows 10 for free ! Even though not completely free, this is not their style. MS will give Windows 10 to Win 7 and Win 8 home users for one year without cost. 
This is more like trail and pay. Once the users get used to the OS, they are more likely to pay for it. This free try will create a huge hype for Windows 10.

As expected, Windows 10 will come out with new browser. Its been confirmed in the event that Spartan will come with Windows 10. To know more about Spartan, click here .

Cortana, the intelligent personal assistant available with Windows Phone 8.1, will now be available with Windows 10 for PC. This will be bigger and better than the Cortana available already.


Windows 8 went down because the new metro look of it got mixed reactions. Traditional / naive users missed start button theme while app lovers liked the metro look more. To satisfy both, Windows 10 will come up with a start button and along with traditional start menu, metro app look will also be present.


With new look, new browser, intelligent PA and a holographic glass to make PA experience better, Windows 10 will become the spearhead for Microsoft to tackle all their recent disappointments and competitors.

Wednesday, 31 December 2014

No more Internet Explorer ?

Yes. You read the title right. Internet Explorer may not be there in the upcoming version of Windows. No more IE trolls over internet ! According to various news sources, instead of IE Windows 10 might have a brand new browser codenamed as Spartan. The browser which is about to come in near future may not come up with same name, but MS is trying to give a new default browser. Giving new name induces that they have came out of the traditional IE. MS is trying to make this new browser simple, light-weight and more user-friendly. The new browser may be like Mozilla's Firefox and Google's Chrome browsers. The latest IE version is 11. Instead of IE 12, they might bring up this brand new browser in Windows 10 desktop/mobile version. It is not clear whether this new browser will be introduced in January when many new features of Windows 10 will be revealed. But more likely with official release you can find this browser. Along with Spartan, Windows 10 will also have IE 11 for backward compatibility. Microsoft is getting ready to tackle challenges in browser end with Spartan.