Según un informe reciente, es probable que Microsoft se deshaga de Windows 10X, el sistema operativo conceptual que se suponía que iba a servir como un rival optimizado y optimizado para los gustos de Chrome OS.
"Microsoft won't be releasing Windows 10X this year, and the operating system as you know it today will probably never come," Sams wrote in an article on Petri.com last week. Citing "people familiar with the company's plans," Sams added: "The company has moved its resources to Windows 10 and 10X is on the back burner for now." Sams' story was not a huge surprise. Previously, reports about Windows 10X claimed that the operating system would be released in the spring of 2021; in fact, its early days were to take the place usually spent updating Windows 10 features in the first half of the year. This was forgotten when, earlier this year, Microsoft announced plans to release Windows 10 21H1 on the usual schedule. Windows 10 21H1 is expected to start rolling out to customer PCs this month.
10X changing message
When Microsoft announced Windows 10X in 2019, the operating system positioned itself as "the best of Windows 10 designed to enable unique experiences on dual-screen, multi-posture PCs." Clearly, that meant the 10X had to power a new class of dual-screen laptop/tablet hybrid hardware that Microsoft and its partners, the Lenovos, Dell, HP, would make. But Microsoft's entry, dubbed the Surface Neo, was later blacked out. Then, a year ago, Windows 10X morphed into an operating system for single-screen devices that, at least according to Microsoft's terse description, looked a lot like Chromebook competitors. “We need to focus on meeting customers where they are now,” said Panos Panay, who had been named director of the Windows and Microsoft device group three months earlier. “Our customers are leveraging the power of the cloud more than ever, and we believe now is the time to look at this acceleration in a different way. Another year later, and Microsoft, according to Sams, has amassed Windows 10X, if not permanently then certainly for an extended period. That. The. Hell? Because?
Trying to explain Microsoft's motives
Microsoft is unlikely to answer this question. And even if it does, the rationale won't be a full telling of the story. That's how the business works. We've ranked the possible reasons to downgrade or downgrade Windows 10X, or whatever you want to call it.
The usual Windows problem. Microsoft has already tried to shrink Windows, shrink it, shrink it, shrink it, deflate it. The attempts were unsuccessful.
- 2012: Windows RT. Released alongside Windows 8, RT was designed for devices powered by the 32-bit ARM architecture. But by banning the traditional x86 apps that made Windows, well, Windows, RT created an unforced bug of massive proportions. Ironically, the operating system, though long dead actually, will be supported by Microsoft for another year and a half, until January 10, 2023.
- 2017: Windows S. Just like Windows RT, if something gets bombed let's try again, Windows S was an attempt to create a derivative operating system that banned x86 Windows apps and relied solely on x86 Windows apps. Windows Store apps. Originally envisioned as "inspired by students and educators, optimized for simplicity, security, and superior performance" and therefore aimed at the education market where Chromebooks have been most successful, it wasn't long before Windows S was released. will switch to "." mode by Microsoft. marketing and touted as a boon to business. Since then, the company has essentially stopped talking about Windows S. Officially, S lives on.
- 2019: Windows 10X. Microsoft is promoting the new concept. But it doesn't go as far as RT or S, because it's dropped before users get their hands on it.
Obviously, Microsoft is having trouble producing a lean operating system; the three strokes prove it. However, it is not clear why this is so. One guess: Microsoft's ban on traditional Win32 apps, of which there are thousands, and the replacement of the generally poor Windows Store apps.
It is not broken. I'm not going to fix anything. Maybe Microsoft decided that putting more emphasis on something other than Windows 10 wasn't worth the effort it once thought was necessary, with the 10 bounce it's gotten from the COVID pandemic. Le coronavirus et les verrouillages qui en résultent, ce dernier qui conductu au travail à distance et à la scolarisation à distance, ont déclenché une flambée des ventes de nouveaux PC Windows 10 alors que les familes se bousculaient pour (ideally) équiper chaque membre d' a machine. Industry research firms have noted the massive year-over-year increase in PC shipments (Gartner has pegged the increase at 32% for the March quarter) and in its latest earnings call, Microsoft has put OEM revenue of Windows non-Pro (Windows 10 Home sales to PC makers) by +44% compared to Q2020 10. With earnings like these, what a rush to tarnish the revenue picture with something unproven , like Windows XNUMXX? None, apparently.
Windows is not Microsoft's queue. The latest income statement illustrates Windows' place in the corporate hierarchy. The part of the business that includes Windows, called "More Personal Computing," accounted for 31% of total revenue, ranking third out of the three divisions. So there are better places than Windows where Microsoft could invest resources, like "Intelligent Cloud," which generated 36% of all revenue.
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