Let’s begin with a well learned wisdom of Solomon: Never send your children to Language 101 if the lecturer has any links with Microsoft.

Given how often they forget their counting, you’d best hire a school teacher to keep your child in touch with reality, and let the lecturer infuse them with some patented nano-chips that has kept the company officials guzzling data and churning out innovation. The latest of which is, NO, wait, most probably is Windows 10.

You never know.

They’ve already leap-frogged Windows 9. But what we do know is that it’s called the Windows Threshold. Yeah we know, they’re never content with one name, but who can forget Windows Cairo: the one we so lovingly called Windows XP…?

Moving on… our sources on technews updates brought us a hint, a big one: Windows 10 is going to be the last major version of Windows. A true Threshold, if you may. With this release, Microsoft is trying to signify that the latest OS will be a cross-platform release encompassing a diverse product family. This means the core will run on devices including PCs, tablets, Windows Phones, and even the Xbox.

So when can we, and business enterprises, get hang of the latest operating system?

Terry Myerson, head Microsoft Operating Systems Group, has confirmed that the expected release date of the Threshold will be by mid-2015. According to the puzzle we’ve put together using leaked information, the expected time is during Spring-2015.

What Thresholds is the Win 10 Setting?

So far, the only preview that Microsoft has officially released was the Enterprise Technical preview build. We know that there is a new start menu, multiple metro-style windowed apps on the desktop, and a new task view allows users switch between virtual desktops.

Then there is the “Continuum”, and it’s not part of the preview build… It lets users easily transition between different modes, like a two-in-one device.

Does that ring a critical bell?

Yup, it seems Microsoft has taken the criticism on tech news blogs of it’spredecessor, Windows 8 to heart. With Win 8, it always was difficult to navigate the interfaces designed solely for touch with mice and keyboards. Hence, in the Threshold whenever someone disconnects/connects keyboards, or mice, a back button pops up on the task bar for aiding users navigate between touch and non-touch interfaces.

The Old and the New

Furthermore, the familiar windows Start menu, and the user experience has been retained but with some terrific improvements! Search is both on task bar and on window, and now we can personalize live tiles with favorite apps and people.

Does anyone remember the app store in Win 8? Yeah, the one that assumed all of us were always using tablets and that the app store had to take the whole screen? The good news is that Threshold offers us a task view button that forces apps from Windows Store to mind their manners, know their place, and work like apps on a desktop. We can resize them and move them around!

Finally, Windows 10 comes with grid snaps so that when you snap objects/apps Windows will offer smart suggestions to use the available space around the snapped app.

Ending Note

Microsoft is still working on making the platform better but the final version is a long time in coming, because it will not be till the next Build conference in April 2015 when Microsoft will officially talk about the story around the Threshold. So till that time, stay tuned for more updates from us!