Microsoft skipped Windows 9 and went straight to Windows 10. The first Technical Preview was released so that everyone, tech enthusiasts and businesses, could take a test drive and get a sneak peek of the next version of the operating system, which will be released in mid-2015.
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Windows 10 Tech Preview: 10 hidden new features of the operating system
Microsoft adds many new features and changes in Windows 10 to improve the operating system compared to Windows 8.1 and make it more attractive to Windows 7 users.
While we've already seen many features in leaked versions of Threshold, many of them aren't yet included in the official Technical Preview release, so let's take a look at the features Microsoft has earmarked for Build 9841—the version you can download today if you sign up to become a Windows Insider.
Start Menu: One of the most noticeable changes when installing Windows 10 is the new Start menu, which looks very similar to the menu in Windows 7 but borrows a lot of functionality from the Start screen in Windows 8. The Start screen is still there and is the default view on tablets without a keyboard, but for those hybrid and regular PCs, the new Start menu is the new default view, even for the Surface Pro 3 (though this will change once Microsoft introduces Continuum mode). In the new menu, users can easily resize the Live Tile like they're used to in Windows 8, and users can also resize the Start menu as a whole. There's a search box, as well as a list of all, recent, and pinned apps. And from the top, users can switch accounts and power off their PCs, as expected. Basically, everything works like it did in Windows 7 and Windows 8.
