What would it mean if Windows 10 was really the last version of Windows?

Today we got up with all the media talking about the statements by Jerry Nixon, one of the Microsoft developers who at the Ignite conference dropped that Windows 10 will be the latest version of Windows, so from now on we could see a real change of strategy by Microsoft for its operating system.

This concept is not new, and the Redmond company already dropped it last January when they introduced us to Windows 10. But it is an idea that breaks so much with what we have seen so far that the People don't end up believing it, although Microsoft officials have also confirmed it to The Verge, so indeed Windows 10 seems to be the beginning of a new way of doing thingswith your operating system.

Windows 10 as Rolling Release

The concept that Microsoft wants to start working with in Windows 10 is exactly the same one we see in some GNU/Linux distributions known as Rolling Releases. The operating system would be divided into different components such as the start menu, the desktop, etc., and each of these could be updated independently.

With a modular OS you could choose the elements for each type of device

This strategy of making a modular Windows divided into different elements could also help when choosing which pieces to include in the different versions designed for each type of device, so that mobile phones, tablets, laptops or even the XBox could use a Windows 10 that was always the same operating system but that at the same time was made up of different combinations of elements

In this way, instead of releasing a different new version of Windows every so often what we would have would be different updates that, like It happens with applications that usually use this system such as Google's Chrome, in many cases they would even go unnoticed as they are minor updates or less visible elements.

What advantages would this new update system have?

Currently, when we look at usage statistics for the latest Microsoft operating systems we find ourselves with a lot of fragmentation On the one hand, Windows XP still is still present on more computers than Windows 8, while on the other hand Windows 7 is still the leading operating system on computers ahead of newer versions.

Users would also stop paying for a new license every few years

What would happen if with a simple change in strategy Microsoft could not only get rid of fragmentation, but also prevent some of its versions from being exposed? That's exactly what would happen, and best of all, as they would be upgrades to the same operating system, users would stop paying for new licenses every few years .

This is pure speculation, but it occurs to me that a modular Windows 10 would also open the doors to specific versions for less powerful computersso they don't get stuck in older versions. After all, let's not forget that this new Microsoft operating system even has a version for the Raspberry Pi.

But a server has already speculated enough with this idea, and now it's your turn to comment. What do you think of the new path that Microsoft seems to be embarking on with Windows 10? Do you welcome a rolling version that is continuously updated or will you start to suffer from the dreaded versionitis?

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