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Windows 10 the operating system that
most of you are using right now on your
desktop or laptop computer ever since
its released back in 2015 people have
had mixed reactions to the operating
system but that hasn't stopped it from
gaining almost 60 percent of desktop and
laptop computer market share although it
took quite a while to get to that point
Windows 7 released six years earlier
still remained the number one the most
used Windows version until early 2018
even though Windows 10 was initially
offered as a completely free upgrade and
this was due to the list of concerns
people had about Windows 10 with its
forcing of automatic updates data
collection and privacy concerns now
whether you love it or hate it
Windows 10 brought a huge transition to
the Windows operating system arguably
the largest one in its history it
unified Microsoft's desktop mobile and
even console operating systems into one
single platform and it was designated by
Microsoft as the last version of Windows
as the company would continually release
newer versions of the operating system
and make them available to existing
users for free beginning a new product
strategy for the company so how did
Microsoft make this transition
how did Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone
8.1 become unified under one single
platform in today's video we're going to
explore the development process that
eventually led to the creation of
Windows 10 but first a word from today's
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Windows 10 s development is ongoing this
video focuses primarily on the history
of Windows 10 prior to its initial
release in the summer of twenty fifth
Kien and how its predecessor's evolved
over time into the operating system that
we know today although the final release
of Windows 10 was publicly released in
2015 the public first caught a glimpse
at what Microsoft's next operating
system would be like back in 2011 yes
even before Windows 8 was released to
manufacturing at the company's worldwide
partner conference that year and rulli's
who at the time was the company's chief
of mobile technologies commented on the
future of Windows saying you can have a
full PC compute power available in
whatever form factor you like we won't
have one ecosystem for PCs and one for
phones and one for tablets they'll all
come together
Lisa's statement envisioned a single
unified computing platform one that
would bridge the gap between traditional
desktop PCs and mobile devices and
that's exactly what Windows 10 did in
the past Microsoft created operating
systems for these platforms that were
independent from one another the
flagship Windows operating system was
created for use on desktop and laptop
computers but Microsoft also developed
Windows Mobile an operating system for
use on Pocket PCs and smartphones this
OS is based on the Windows CE II kernel
which originated back in 1992 with the
wind pad development project which I did
a video on here and while both of these
operating systems were created by the
same company the applications developed
for each system were not
cross-compatible
sure Windows Mobile had applications
like Pocket word in Pocket Excel that
provided similar functionality but they
were not exactly the same applications
Pocket word had some limitations like a
file size limit and was really only
intended to make quick and simple edits
to Word documents I mean it wouldn't be
the most practical thing to write a
5-page essay on one of these pocket pcs
Windows Mobile would later evolve into
Windows Phone with the first release in
2010 being known as Windows
phone 7:00 two years later Microsoft
would follow up with the release of
Windows Phone eight unveiled on the same
day as Windows 8 this release marked a
new era for the Windows Mobile and phone
line of operating systems because it
made the OS more compatible with the
full desktop release of Windows while
all previous versions of the mobile OS
were based on Windows CE II technology
Windows Phone 8 was based on the NT
kernel this provided a strong foundation
for the operating system and because one
news 8 was based on that same kernel it
allowed the two operating systems to
share certain features like use of the
NTFS filesystem and desktop class
multitasking this is where the bridging
of the gap between mobile and desktop
begins Windows 10 would expand on this
even more by providing a single platform
that could be used on different types of
devices in fact Windows 10 mobile
devices could be used like a regular
desktop machine when they had a monitor
keyboard and mouse plugged into them
this was a feature known as continuum
for phones now as since these devices
are ARM based you obviously can't use
this feature to play steam games or
anything like that but through the use
of the Universal Windows platform
developers could create a single
application that could be run on Windows
10 Windows 10 mobile and even the Xbox
one continuum for phones allows you to
use these applications just like you
would on your desktop computer at home
but unfortunately for Windows 10 mobile
users Microsoft ended support for it in
January of 2020 due to the unpopularity
of the platform when compared to iOS and
Android however we still have to take a
look at the desktop side of things so
let's discuss how Windows 8.1 evolved
over time into Windows 10 Windows 10 was
codenamed threshold during its
development after a planet in Halo the
first few milestone 1 development builds
utilized the same NT version as 8.1
version 6.3 build a 97 80 was
piled on June 22nd 2014 the biggest
change by far in this build is the
return of the Start menu as I'm sure we
all know Windows 8 replaced this
interface with the Start screen and got
rid of the Start button and while
Windows 8.1 that brought back the start
button it would open up the Start screen
when clicked this new start menu
combines elements from both the windows
7 style Start menu and the Windows 8
Start screen you can access power
options and browse the applications
installed on your system on the left
side and 10 modern UI application tiles
to the right another feature introduced
in Windows 10 was the ability to run
modern UI applications in a window on
the desktop and build a 98 21 from
August of 2014 is the first known build
to include this feature it also brought
some new icons to the operating system
but it didn't take long for both of
these features to be publicly showcased
as in the fall of 2014 Microsoft
previewed the first technical preview
build of Windows 10 known as 98 41 and
with it came the introduction of the
windows insider program another major
change in Microsoft's product strategy
for the very first time the company made
certain pre-release builds of Windows
available to anybody all you had to do
was sign up for the free insider program
but Microsoft emphasized that these
builds were not in any way a final
product and they should not be used on
primary systems it's a system that
worked very well for both parties the
insiders were given access to
pre-release Microsoft software to test
out and write about and Microsoft got
feedback from these insiders identifying
bugs and suggesting changes this was a
major shift from previous Windows
development cycles as now the public
could follow along with Windows 10
development in real time but that's not
to say that there weren't any leaked
development builds because there
definitely were build a 99 Oh
was one of those builds leaked in
December of 2014 it became notable for
its inclusion of the Cortana virtual
assistant although it wasn't the first
bill to include it it began circulating
online soon after it was leaked which
resulted in various articles and videos
on the desktop version of Cortana
including one that I made this version
of Cortana is obviously not complete but
it gave us a good idea at how the
feature would work in the final release
of Windows 10 you could ask Cortana to
do web searches and get data like the
current weather conditions but it could
also be used to perform tasks on your PC
like setting reminders it would also
respond to you with voice feedback this
build was also one of the first to
change the NT version to 10.0 rather
than incrementing the version by one as
some previous builds did this was most
likely done to make the actual name of
the Windows version and its NT version
consistent to avoid confusion in build
99 oh nine that compiled just 11 days
after 99 oh one we can see the inclusion
of the new Start menu with the added
ability to launch into full-screen mode
this build was also the last to use
centered title text on windows which was
reintroduced with Windows 8 after being
dropped in Windows 95
another major introduction with Windows
10 was edge Microsoft's new web browser
it was known as project Spartan during
development and could first be seen in
build 10,000 14 the technical preview
phase of Windows 10 s development would
end with build 10,000 64 where we can
see that visual elements system-wide are
becoming more finalized the Start menu
moves the power options to the bottom
left and makes some changes to the items
contained in the left side the next
phase of Windows 10 s development began
with the release of build 10,000 74 and
was known as the insider preview phase
two months later Microsoft would compile
the final release to manufacturing build
of Windows
and 10 to 40 it was made available to
the public as a free upgrade to all
Windows 7 8 and 8.1 users in late July
but after and even before its release
many wondered why it was the Microsoft
skipped from one doze 8.1 to Windows 10
Microsoft had a bit of fun with this
during an event where some employees
were wearing a t-shirt with the windows
logo made up of binary code some people
ended up translating this and discovered
that one of the lines read Windows 10
because seven eight nine
this is obviously a joke that I'm sure
we've all heard before but as far as I
can tell it's the only time that
Microsoft actually commented if you want
to call it that as to why Windows 9 was
skipped it indicates that there really
wasn't any technical reason behind it
and was more of a marketing move but in
a popular reddit post from back in 2014
a supposed Microsoft developer gave some
insight saying that Windows 9 was
skipped as many third-party applications
would interprets Windows 9 as Windows 95
and 98 causing compatibility issues
however some have questioned the
validity of this theory saying that
applications would check for the actual
version number of the operating system
as opposed to its release name either
way
Windows 10 was the name chosen since the
original release in the summer of 2015
Microsoft has followed up with 9 and new
versions of the operating system the
most recent version known as the May 20
2008 each one of these releases further
improved the operating system by adding
new features and tweaking existing
settings while older versions of Windows
had service packs what news 10 replaces
the need for them because the entire
operating system is updated periodically
for free some of these versions were
named to correspond with what kind of
features they introduced while others
were named after the month and year they
came out the creator's update in April
of 2017 had a focus on creativity
introducing features like the paint 3d
application the May 20 19 Update gives
Windows a new light theme
and the most recent version introduces a
new version of the windows subsystem for
linux and improvements to virtual
desktops of course this is just a small
list of features added over time but
it's clear that Windows 10 is here to
stay but it's absolutely faced criticism
over the years ever since its release
people have been concerned about its
forcing of automatic updates and privacy
issues
the default express option during setup
in the initial version of Windows 10
would turn on settings that allowed
Microsoft to collect things like typing
and inking data and would allow more
personalized ads to be displayed in
certain applications now this is rather
ironic as a few years beforehand
Microsoft ran a huge anti Google ad
campaign called scrool where they
criticized the company for invading
user's privacy by collecting data from
them to display more tailored ads but
that wasn't all Microsoft got complaints
for in 2017 it was revealed that
Microsoft began blocking updates to
computers running Windows 7 on the
latest generation of intel and AMD
processors despite the fact that Windows
7 still had three years of support left
this was viewed by many as a way for
Microsoft to essentially force computer
users to update to Windows 10 to further
increase its market share as it did not
hold the majority at this point more
recently Microsoft a disabled local
account creation during Windows setup
unless you are disconnected from the
Internet I actually did a video covering
this topic but despite people's concerns
Windows 10 has been able to gain a
majority of desktop and laptop computer
market share and unless Microsoft ends
up creating Windows 11 it likely will
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