Forcibly promote win10: What is Microsoft?

Computer store news: Recently, Microsoft announced on its official blog: "In the future, with the arrival of next-generation chip technology, only the latest Windows platform can provide support. For Intel & squo; Kaby Lake & rsquo; chip, Qualcomm & lsquo; 8996 & rsquo; chip, and AMD & lsquo; Bristol Ridge & rsquo; chip, Windows 10 will be the only supported platform. ”

The introduction of this new policy has caused a lot of discussion in the circle. Many people think that Microsoft's new policy will lead users to not get the best Windows 10 experience. Microsoft's move is for its own benefit and does not take into account the interests of users. The Windows 10 New Deal is very different from the hardware standard proposed when users first upgraded. Microsoft's move even has the ingredients to induce and deceive users. But is this really the case? Looking at these questions, I found that they went into three misunderstandings. One is: misunderstanding Microsoft's New Deal; the other is: expanding the software upgrade bug with a small probability of large sample size to a poor overall user experience; the third is: "The minimum configuration standard that can be upgraded and can be brought The hardware standard for the best experience is conflated and the concept is stolen.

First, what is the Windows New Deal?

Microsoft's New Deal said: "With the advent of next-generation chip technology, only the latest Windows platform can provide support." But what is this new policy? In fact, the so-called Microsoft New Deal, its core is not related to the user who has upgraded to Windows10 but is equipped with old hardware. It is related to users who have new CPU but still stay on old systems such as Windows 7, Windows 8/8.1.

This new policy means that Microsoft will not develop support for new CPUs for older systems such as Windows 7/8/8.1, which means that these old systems will not receive the best technical support and Use experience.

And we can also see that Microsoft has not abandoned the PC user experience of using old hardware on Windows 10, and Microsoft is not increasing the hardware requirements of Windows 10. The purpose of Microsoft's new deal is to promote Windows 10.

And Microsoft officially said that the new CPU performs better on the new system. For example, on Intel's current release of the sixth-generation Core processor Skylake, devices running Windows 10 can provide 30 times better graphics performance and up to 3 times longer battery life than Windows 7 devices. But under this performance gap, how many users with new CPUs are still willing to use the old system?

Second, on the old PC, what is the experience of Windows10?

As we all know, Microsoft has integrated many advantages of Windows 7 and Windows 8 on Windows 10, and has corrected many mistakes to make the familiar menu of the user return. And bring new features and innovative features that users expect. For example, join Cortana Assistant, Edge Browser, Xbox and Game Concatenation, Multitasking Management, Windows Hello Biometrics, Continuum Mode and Windows Store across terminals, and built-in applications such as Outlook Mail Weather. Various innovations have led Microsoft to claim that Windows 10 is the best Windows operating system ever.

But many skeptics have committed the second type of error I have said: the software upgrade bug with a very small probability of large sample size has been extended to a poor overall user experience. And listed such as before, "by upgrading Windows10, thousands of PCs have not been able to run normally, for this reason, users have to collectively sue Microsoft" news reports have been supported.

But in hundreds of millions of PCs, the inability of thousands of PCs to function properly can only be counted as a very small probability event. This is not to say that the user experience of thousands of PCs is not important, but that subtle flaws in large sample sizes are inevitable, and Microsoft has been providing system updates to fix problems encountered by users during use. If you only use this very small probability event to question the poor user experience of Windows 10, personally think it is untenable.

And what about the user experience of Windows 10? The market has already given the answer. Windows10's current market share has reached 13.41%, and it has also become the world's second largest operating system, while also creating a record of the fastest penetration rate of Windows systems. Although the free upgrade is indispensable, but the bigger reason is that Microsoft has actually brought the actual improvement of the user experience on Windows 10. Under the bright eyes of current consumers and media organizations, if the user experience is not good, the old PC hardware can not support the good operation of Windows10, then the penetration rate of hundreds of millions of users can never be in this short period of time. Reached.

And the user satisfaction survey from the market research company is more powerful evidence of the high satisfaction of the Windows 10 system. A new survey conducted by authoritative research firm IDC in the United States found that no less than 30% of US Windows PC home users have upgraded to Windows 10, and it turns out that users who have already installed the Windows 10 operating system really like this. The product will be happy to recommend it to others. Among them, 60% of Windows 10 users claim to be happy to use Windows 10, or are happy to use Windows 10. Only 10% of users are dissatisfied with Windows 10 or very dissatisfied.

And another market research firm, Brand Watch, based on a survey of online discussions by Windows 10 on social media users, shows that 92% of users currently love Windows 10. It can be seen that the user satisfaction with the new system of Windows is actually quite high.

Third, the correct distinction between the minimum hardware standards for upgrading and the hardware standards for the best user experience

Because most people misunderstand the Microsoft New Deal, this theory has emerged: Microsoft The release of the Windows 10 New Deal is very different from the hardware standard that was proposed when users first upgraded, and the huge Wintel combination gap is the gap in the user experience gap. This is a move away from the end, regardless of user experience.

But personally think: Win10 can only get the best user experience and service support to use Microsoft's latest processor with Intel, AMD and Qualcomm to give Microsoft a "top" Regardless of the "small hat" is also untenable. If you talk about Microsoft, it's a matter of disregarding the interests of users. In fact, it is a confusing concept that confuses the minimum hardware standard that can be upgraded with the hardware standard that can get the best user experience.

According to the logic of questioning, my personal understanding is that requiring old hardware to achieve the best user experience in the new system. But this is an impossible task from the industry consensus or rational thinking. The correct posture should be the combination of the new system and the new hardware to bring the best user experience.

And this is true in both the Microsoft Windows desktop operating system and the mobile operating system represented by Apple iOS and Google Android. Products with old hardware are required to get the best user experience in the new system, not only Microsoft, Apple, Google. It is undoubtedly difficult for such a request to impose such a requirement on Microsoft personally.

With the current highly respected Apple, each generation of iOS can be pushed to previous generations of iPhones. Take iOS9 as an example. He can run on the latest iPhone 6S or on the old iPhone 4S. However, it is obvious that you can't have the kind of running experience on the 6S on the iPhone4S. More often than not, you can't enjoy the new features of 3D Touch, 4K video, Live Photos. The reason is that the 4S configuration is the minimum configuration requirement for upgrade, and the new hardware such as the A9 chip on the iPhone6s is capable of exerting all the energy of iOS9 and providing the user with the best user experience configuration requirements.

And iOS9's runnable configuration requires that the performance of the A9 is much stronger than the performance of its lowest-configured 4S chip compared to the best experience requirements of iOS9, even if it is compared to the iPhone6. The performance gap is also obvious. Apple officially also advertised: A9 chip, compared with the previous generation, it has improved the overall performance of the central processor by as much as 70%, and even more amazingly, the performance of the graphics processor has been improved by as much as 90%.

And if the old hardware needs to get the best user experience in the new system, it is clear that Apple is also playing tricks, iOS9 can play the best The experience of the A9 chip has a huge performance advantage compared to the chip that was supported by the previous iPhone of the iOS9 system, but Apple did not tell the user that running the iOS9 on the old iPhone did not bring the best user experience before the upgrade. It is also taking the free gimmick, inducing user upgrades, disregarding the interests of users, and still brings the gap of experience, ignoring the essence of user upgrade. But is this really the case? Obviously this is not the case. The fact is that the gap in experience stems from the strength of the evolution of hardware performance.

And the performance gap between the new Wintel combination and the performance gap between iOS9 and A9 chips is a truth. Supports 1GB of PAE, NX and SSE2, 16G hard drive space, Microsoft DirectX 9 or higher graphics card with WDDM 1.0 driver, and monitors with resolutions above 800 x 600. These are upgrades for Windows 10. Minimum hardware requirements. Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm's latest processors, which are currently discussed in the Microsoft New Deal, are the hardware requirements for the best experience.

It is clear that the minimum hardware requirements for upgrades are comparable to the current new Wintel combination hardware. The performance gap is obvious, and the gap in experience will inevitably lead to a gap in experience. And this gap will also be huge. However, we can also see from the example of Apple that Microsoft's crime of disregarding the interests of users is undoubtedly unfounded. The difference in experience is due to the natural evolution of hardware performance.

It is obviously irrational to require the best user experience consistent with the latest hardware on the old hardware. It is difficult to be unscientific and hard to do. It is hindering the progress of new hardware. The real user experience is coming up. If the old hardware can bring the best user experience, what is the significance of the manufacturers spending a lot of time researching new chips? How to divide the high school and low end of the product?

In summary, for the skeptics, Microsoft's New Deal is “disregarding the interests of users and seriously harming the interests of users”. Instead, individuals believe that the Microsoft New Deal is an initiative that will help users get the best experience earlier.

Windows10, together with the latest Intel, Qualcomm, and AMD processors, will undoubtedly provide more stage for manufacturers and developers to explore the system potential of Windows 10 more neatly. Go for a better user experience. This new policy is beneficial to the growth of new hardware, lower maintenance costs, and improved user experience. This is undoubtedly good news for OEMs, processor manufacturers, developers and consumers.