Windows 10 is a major version of the Microsoft Windows operating system that was released on July 29, 2015. It is built on the Windows NT kernel and follows Windows 8.
Part of the reason Microsoft decided to name the 2015 release “Windows 10” (and skipped “Windows 9”) is because the operating system is designed to be a new direction for Microsoft. One of the primary aims of Windows 10 is to unify the Windows experience across multiple devices, such as desktop computers, tablets, and smartphones. As part of this effort, Microsoft developed Windows 10 Mobile alongside Windows 10 to replaces Windows Phone – Microsoft’s previous mobile OS. Windows 10 also integrates other Microsoft services, such as Xbox Live and the Cortana voice-recognition assistant.
Microsoft’s May 10 update of Windows 10 brought several new features and changes to the operating system, one of which was a change from the previously bundled system upgrade method to a modular upgrade. Microsoft has added an option called “Windows Feature Experience Pack” to push feature updates for core applications outside of the operating system.
It is reported that the functional experience package includes: Notepad, Wordpad, Paint, PowerShell ISE, DirectX configuration database, OpenSSH client and Quick Assistant and other core Windows programs and components. In this way, users can bypass regular system updates and instead update these programs or add components in the Microsoft Store.
Compared to the previous system update, the new feature pack packaged some functional software and programs together, and its update speed was faster than that of the system update, which is also in line with the company’s revised Windows 10X plan, This enables it to test the shell components by bundling together in future Insider builds and optimize the operating system UI/UX for upcoming devices.
