14 DAY TRIAL // In a blog post detailing some of the announcements made at this year’s edition of Computex, Microsoft also discusses its vision for a modern operating system, highlight some of the key attributes that it sees as the foundation of such a platform.
One of the most important points concerns the way updates are performed on a modern operating system, as Microsoft says that the updating experience should be entirely seamless, with everything happening in the background.
“The update experience is deterministic, reliable, and instant with no interruptions!” Nick Parker, Corporate Vice President, Consumer and Device Sales, explains.
As everyone knows already, Windows 10 itself is far from reaching this point, as the updating experience not only that has nothing to do with the term “seamless,” but is often considered a Russian roulette due to the number of bugs coming with updates.
Enhanced security
Microsoft says a modern OS needs to be secure by default, and in order to achieve this, the company explains that apps themselves must be separated from the operating system.
“A modern OS, is also secure by default, the state is separated from the operating system; compute is separated from applications; this protects the user from malicious attacks throughout the device lifecycle,” Parker says.
A modern OS also allows the user to be always connected, a concept that Microsoft pushed with Windows 10 on ARM, and requires a cloud engine and AI tech that could help it become “aware of what a user is doing tomorrow and help them get it down.”
Multi-sense is another key element of such a platform, with several input methods to be supported beyond the classic ones, and so is form factor agility.
While Microsoft doesn’t mention Windows 10 as the modern OS that it’s referring to, some of the improvements listed here would certainly be useful, especially the seamless update experience with everything happening in the background.