Monday, May 4, 2015

Windows 8, according to Microsoft not excited because of confidentiality – NU.nl

That Belfiore said in an interview with The Australian Financial Review .

Microsoft developed Windows 8 synchronously his first Surface tablet. The company wanted to keep secret the new tablet and hit over the development of the new operating system. “Secrecy was the dominant culture at Microsoft at the time of Windows 8,” said Belfiore.

Belfiore sees that as just the reason why Windows 8 not well received at the time of its release, and then never really popular has become. According to recent statistics Windows 7 still has a market share of nearly 60 percent, while Windows 8 and 8.1 have to do with less than 15 percent. Windows XP is still up 15.9 percent of the PCs.

Microsoft claims to have learned from the mistakes and changed the way it operates. Belfiore indicates that the team has stepped on a more open model.

Interested parties can already register for the month Insider program, after which they can use test versions of Windows 10. The new version of the operating system will not be final until released in the summer. The Insider program is used to gather feedback.

“It is not the only data point we use, but it’s become a very important one,” said Belfiore on feedback. Microsoft made in late April announced within two to three years on 1 billion devices in Windows 10 installed to want

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By: NU.nl

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