Microsoft skips ahead, unveils new ‘Windows 10′ operating system

[unhappycamper]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/09/microsoft-skips-ahead-unveils-new-windows-10-operating-system/

Microsoft skips ahead, unveils new ‘Windows 10′ operating system
Reuters
30 Sep 2014

Microsoft Corp announced its ‘Windows 10′ operating system on Tuesday to replace the largely unpopular Windows 8, skipping a number to mark a leap toward unifying the way people work on tablets, phones and traditional computers.

The next version of Microsoft’s flagship product, which still runs the vast majority of personal computers and is used by 1.5 billion people worldwide, is aimed at recapturing the lucrative business market, which generally ignored the new-look Windows 8.

Windows 10 will be “our greatest enterprise platform ever,” said Terry Myerson, Microsoft’s head of operating systems, at an event in San Francisco. Only 20 percent of organizations migrated to Windows 8, which was released two years ago, according to tech research firm Forrester.

~snip~

From a virtual monopoly on personal computing 10 years ago, Windows now runs only about 14 percent of devices, according to research firm Gartner.