Happy 5th Birthday, Windows 10!

Published on July 29, 2020 By Island Dog In Personal Computing

Happy Birthday Windows 10! Today is 5 years since Windows 10 was originally released on July 29th, 2015. I've been a user since before that being in various beta programs, and overall I have been happy with it over these past few years. It's also exciting for me to be part of a great company that makes awesome products to make Windows 10 even better!

Windows 10 has certainly changed a lot over the past 5 years with lots of updates, and our friends over at Neowin have put together a great article with lots of screenshots on what has changed.

It's a great post showing a visual comparison of Windows 10, so be sure to head over there and check it out!

https://www.neowin.net/news/windows-10-is-five-years-old---heres-how-its-changed

Comments

AzDude

on Jul 29, 2020

Jafo

on Jul 29, 2020

Looking at that screenshot....Windows 10 is from the Umbrella Corporation.....now it makes sense....

SchismNavigator

on Jul 30, 2020

Windows 10 is a solid OS. Never bought the hate some people had for it.

Jafo

on Jul 30, 2020

SchismNavigator

reply 3

Windows 10 is a solid OS. Never bought the hate some people had for it.

You haven't had it brick a system?

I still have one box stoically running a vintage 10 because it doesn't know how to update itself. Some have failed continuously for more than a year.

I am going to have to do it for it myself...by installing a newer version OVER it.....but I can't, because my wife's working from home and using it...so it's mission-critical....

The real issue is how MS decided everyone on the planet was going to be a beta tester for some pretty dodgey forced updates.

Not to mention using Joe Public as an unwitting torrent provider during the 'roll out' process.

2of3

on Jul 31, 2020

It's hard to remember that my current PC came out of the box with win 8.1 installed. I was quick to install start8 and WB, so I never got the vanilla 8.1 experience. Win 10 was def a step up, in any case!

Sidenote: Did I buy this laptop 6 years ago? Still runs flawlessly.

SchismNavigator

on Aug 03, 2020

2of3

reply 5

Awesome, honestly Win 8 was a pretty decent OS, genuinely performed better than 7, just you needed to rip out its UI.

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