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Windows 8.1 made a clearer delineation between the desktop and tablet environments, and Windows 10 defines those boundaries even more clearly while still making it simpler to switch between the two for users of convertible machines. You couldn't use the desktop without running into the tablet stuff, and you couldn't use it as a tablet OS without occasionally needing to switch to the desktop. The biggest problem, however, was that too many of the seams between the desktop and tablet environments were showing. The fresh start that a new name provides is just one more way to try to make the next version of Windows stick. Obviously, it would be ideal for Microsoft if it could pull off another Windows 7 here, replacing Windows 8.1 with a lightly modified but 'new' OS that quickly displaces its predecessor and starts winning over some Windows 7 (and even Windows XP) holdouts.

Data shows that Windows 8 and 8.1 collectively control about 12.3 percent of the desktop operating system market after two years, an adoption rate that canР’В be described as 'Vista-esque.' (The fact that nearly half of all Windows 8 users are on version 8.0 is a separate problem but no less worrisome, since it means those people aren't seeing the marked improvements we got in Windows 8.1.) Microsoft hasn't run any 'we tricked you into saying you liked Windows 8' ads, but the newer OS'Р’В early reputation has come to define it in much the same way. The point that the companyР’В inadvertentlyР’В made was that Vista's negative first impression hadР’В stuck, regardless of how much the operating systemР’В had improved since launch. Microsoft highlightedР’В the problem in a circa-2008 series of ads called the ' Mojave Experiment.' Microsoft's point in these ads was that when people actually used Vista instead of just hearing about it, their opinion of the operating system improved. But again, a big part of the problem was the name. One could argue that those refinements were what won people over, althoughР’В by 2009, XP was feeling long in the tooth in a way it didn't feel back in 2006. This happened even though Windows 7 was very much a refinementР’В built directly on top of Vista's foundation-just as mild a change as the jump from Windows 8.1 to the Windows 10 preview. It took just two years for Windows 7 to hit 40 percent market share and displace XP as the most-used version of Windows.

And yet after three years, Vista had peaked at about 19 percent of the desktop operating system marketР’В (byР’В comparison, Windows XP had about 71.5 percent of the market at the time, and the just-released WindowsР’В 7 had crept up to about 1.5 percent).

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Drivers had improved, and PC OEMs had beefed up their systems with more RAM and the dual-core processors that quickly invaded the mainstream market in the mid-to-late 2000s. The drivers that were updated were often rough in the beginning, and they contributed significantly to Vista's general feeling of instability.Р”В«ut by the time Service Pack 1 (and especially Service Pack 2) rolled around, many of those problems had evaporated.

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It ushered in several new driver models, breaking compatibility with older peripheral devices. It was slower at certain things than XP was. It required significantly more resources to run well than XP did. When Windows Vista launched, it had real problems. So why is Microsoft calling this one Windows 10 rather than continuing to build on top of the two-year-old Windows 8? The answer is in the name. And there's some indication that this was Microsoft's plan all along the Start menu and the ability to run Windows Store apps in resizable windows were originallyР’В rumoredР’В to be part of an 'Update 2' for Windows 8.1, though those plans were obviously scrubbed.

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These updates restored the Start button, allowedР’В desktop and laptop users to boot into the desktop environment by default, and gaveР’В the familiar Windows taskbar the ability to launch and switch between full-screen Windows Store apps.Р”Р„fter using the new desktopР’В for a few days, I can say that it really feels more like Windows 8.2 than Windows 10 (the software isn't nearly done yet, but the point stands).

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Whether the companyР’В was looking forward to multiple desktops and Continuum or backward to the Start menu and the command prompt, Microsoft'sР’В message was clear: we have finished undoing all that stuff you didn't like.Р”В«ut regardless of the message, theР’В Windows 10 desktop is really only buildingР’В on the foundation Windows 8.1Р’В and Windows 8.1 Update 1 laid. This was not the message that Microsoft conveyed at its Windows 10 launch event lastР’В week, a presentation that had Microsoft's historically change-averse but financially important business customers in mind. The desktop environment in Windows 8.1 is pretty good.

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