Windows 10 review: a fresh Start for Microsoft

Windows 10 has finally arrived, but how does it compare to previous versions, asks Sophie Curtis, and has Microsoft succeeded in righting the wrongs of Windows 8?
By Sophie Curtis  04 Aug 2015

Windows 10, the latest version of Microsoft's 29-year-old operating system, launched worldwide last week. Following a hostile reception to Windows 8 in 2012, which was only placated in small part by the Windows 8.1 update in 2013, Microsoft is hoping that Windows 10 can help it regain favour among its 1.5 billion daily users.

Windows 10 rights a lot of the wrongs done by Microsoft in Windows 8. One of the things that people hated about Windows 8 was the feeling that they were constantly being pushed to use "live tiles", which were designed for touch-based computing, even when they were using a traditional desktop set-up with a keyboard and mouse.

Start button menu

Another was the removal of the Start menu, which many people relied on as their first point of access to all software. This was replaced in Windows 8.1 with a Start button in the bottom left hand corner of the screen, but rather than opening up a navigation menu, it launched the tile-based touch user interface that most people were trying to escape.
Although live tiles are still a feature of Windows 10, they are not nearly as obtrusive. When you open up the new Start menu, there is a panel of live tiles on the right, where people can "pin" their favourite apps, but there is also a traditional Windows 7-style Start menu on the left, that allows users to sort through all of their files, apps and settings systematically.

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