Microsoft's
Windows 10 event yesterday gave us a deeper look at the next generation of its operating system. At once panacea and prescience, it's a remedy for Windows 8's identity-crisis that also rethinks and reworks the Microsoft's bold vision of creating a single, universal experience for all of our devices.
We still don't have a release date for the Consumer Preview, but we'll have a new build of the Technical Preview sometime in the next few weeks, and a build for Windows Phones coming in February. There was also some pretty good news for folks who are currently running
Windows 7, Windows 8.1, and Windows Phone 8 -- upgrades to
Windows 10 will be free for a year. There's no word on pricing after that (or for folks still running Windows XP), but if Microsoft has its way, we will have all made the switch by then anyway.
