Microsoft: Windows 10 as a Service – Generation NT

Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s boss, has again reminded during the BUILD conference last week. Windows 10 is a Windows as a Service. This name may suggest many things but it is in fact actually quite basic

Do not imagine. – Finally, for now – a Windows subscription. Windows as a Service simply means the provision on a regular basis with new features and functionality, as well as security updates and critical fixes.

The companies will have control over these updates but the business model does not change. Compared to the current situation, it is the promise of more significant improvements throughout the lifetime of a product.

And with Windows 10, Microsoft wants to touch all ranges products with various screen sizes. A particular aim facilitated through universal applications and Windows as a single platform.

With Windows as a Service, it also means that some features of Windows 10 already highlighted by Microsoft will not be immediately available at the time of launch.

This is the case for support for extensions in Microsoft Edge browser, the “portage” Win32 applications, Android and iOS in the Windows Store. If Windows 10 is to be launched this summer (Microsoft did not mention a specific date), Windows 10 on mobile devices (for phones) will be available after its counterpart on PC and therefore not necessarily this summer.

It is this seemingly Windows as a service, functionality as and when but also to support the devices. And it should be the same for the Xbox, Surface Hub HoloLens with a launch in Windows 10 offset from the summer to the PC.

For Windows 10 as a Service, Microsoft plans to begin the launch this summer of features and increase the pace in the fall.