Windows 10 at six months: Ready for primetime?

[bill]

Ed Bott takes a look at Win10 from an IT perspective

Windows 10 at six months: Ready for primetime? [zdnet.com]

There's a tendency among casual observers and tech reporters to focus on the consumer experience. That's only natural, of course, because most modern tech reporters are themselves consumers, and they have little or no experience with the challenges that IT pros face in securing and managing computing resources in a business setting.

Yes, the consumer experience is important, but the business story is arguably even more so, and so far it's been mostly ignored in the mainstream press.

[Hoople]

Underwhelming article is being kind. My reaction was "...I'll never get that time back ever!.."

I guess they gave up on writing long pieces?

[bill]

I can understand that reaction. Nothing groundbreaking in the article. Just a slightly different perspective for some.

[tangor]

Win 10 is having a hard slog for the Enterprise/Business sector. One reason is it is too close on the heels of Win 8x. Then again, MS is bleeding bucks on the OS and rolling out Windows as a Service (that's what Win10 is, kiddies), will eventually lead to a daily payday rather than only when a new version rolls out (and all those hanger ons who have to be dragged away from their existing installs)

[bill]

MS returned to the update cycle they had always promised us. Win10's release wasn't necessarily early, and a lot of IT people were counting on it to be the release they would move to. They'd diligently skipped Vista and Win8, so most were anticipating this. They've been trained to wait for the first Service Pack release before upgrading, so it may take a while to see more enterprise adoption.

[Hoople]

Without actually saying 'service pack' the November release was touted by them as being a milestone release of sorts. Just as their habits change I get the feeling the micro-speak is also morphing.