Windows 10 to be last Windows relase
11 May 2015
Microsoft is set to pull the plug on Windows with Windows 10 slated to be the last traditional release. However, the company will improve it by adding enhancements and updates in the future.
According to The Verge, Microsoft employee Jerry Nixon, a developer evangelist speaking at the company's Ignite conference said, ''Right now we're releasing Windows 10, and because Windows 10 is the last version of Windows, we're all still working on Windows 10.''
He explained how Microsoft had been working on the base of Windows 10 all through last year even when it launched Windows 8.1. The company would continue to further push updates to this latest OS, but would avoid releasing a complete new version.
The reason for the change was Microsoft reportedly plans to launch Windows as a service. However, it did not really explain how it planned to do so. According to the report, Microsoft had altered the way it engineered and delivered Windows, and the initial result was Windows 10.
Instead of a big releases, there would be improvements along the way. Part of this was achieved with the splitting up of operating system components like the Start Menu and built-in apps to be separate parts that could be independently updated to the entire Windows core operating system.
Windows 10 would come with a brand new Edge browser that would be completely different in appearance as well as technologies from the old one.
The new browser, which would replace the drab and old Internet Explorer would not have ActiveX, the two decades old binary extension model launched in 1996, that gave developers the ability to include native Windows technologies into web pages.
Microsoft listed all the old technologies and APIs that would not be supported by Edge browser under the title ActiveX.
According to Tech Times some of the plug-ins that used ActiveX were Flash Player and Acrobat Reader of Adobe, Java of Oracle, and Silverlight of Microsoft.