Four major impacts of WINDOWS 10 on web design

I think you should have been brushed by Windows 10 in the last few days. Upgrade or not upgrade, this is a problem. But whether you're an XP die-hard or Win7 iron powder, you have to admit that Microsoft's release of WIN10 is notable for its reputation as a separate product. From now on, Microsoft will stop making a big version of the update, but use frequent update iterations (perhaps a few days to upgrade) to constantly respond to new requirements and add new features. (from the point of view of the demand is good, but from the urine of Microsoft Update System, turn off the computer this matter will be more annoying)

There is no doubt that Windows 10 is more powerful, but it has something to do with Mac OS X. The 80 's is a long way from the dispute over the graphics interface, the Macintosh legend, the Windows 95 attack is just like the past, but Mac OS X can definitely be called Modern Windows system (XP, Vista, 7, 8, etc.) of the old enemy. At least from the design, it deserved.

If you've ever seen a book about design fundamentals and rules such as design and cognition, you'll find that the Mac OS X system has been almost the most typical and excellent model of GUI design for nearly 15 years-it's both easy and beautiful. If you look closely at the evolutionary trajectory of windows from XP to 10, you will find that Microsoft is a really good student.

Well, it's a little far away. This time Windows 10 also draws on a number of Mac features, such as task management (WIN8 's mission management as a crash site), plus a return and optimized Start button and careful tuning of new features, the system is definitely worth upgrading.

Like Macs, good systems always have the same effect on design. Even if the market share of the unpleasant windows Phone has a certain degree of influence on the mobile side of the UI design fashion, how Windows 10 will affect the future of web design?

　　1, popularization, more equipment and more possibilities

Microsoft missed the last mobile-end revolution, while the dilatory Windows Phone still occupies a third place, after Android and iOS, but market share is now almost negligible.

Although WP still have a lot of cluster, borrow force modernism design Wind also commendable, Zennai acquisition Nokia Mobile department does not benefit, the number of users also did not see growth. Fortunately, the new Windows 10 is not a traditional desktop system, it's a "responsive" operating system that spans desktops, tablets and mobile phones, and Microsoft will make it run on many high-end hardware, and you'll see it on a wide range of consumer computers, tablets and mobile phones. If you have ever looked at the white plate from Shenzhen, the so-called "Zhai", the price of the floor and the performance can be used, you will be aware of the current low price of digital products, as well as Windows 8/10 system performance threshold low.

The popularization and extension of the platform will naturally affect the web design. In the future you will need to worry about more sizes and more platform design options. Maybe Windows will give you a good full platform formula case. If the ubiquity of Windows new devices is a flaw in the way designers face more complex and variable response designs, then these inexpensive Windows devices, as designer tools, are a real advantage. Hundreds of dollars, with the Ling-driven CPU of the Windows tablet can be opened with PS, smooth processing some of the day-to-day design work, can be in the low effect mode of the smooth play of the League of Heroes, let alone write code, adjust the bug such a job. The core M CPU, which began to be popular this year, has a performance that is not weaker than the low voltage i5 processor and does not lose the power of the Ling CPU. Plus the price of the computer/tablet below the 2000 Yuan Dan, I think you should know what this means in China's pursuit of a cost-effective land. The previously embarrassing atom+emmc+ 2GB memory scheme is evolving into a core M+SSD+4GB memory configuration solution, and web Designer's new cost-effective tool is not far off.

　　2, Cortana, the upstart of search and interaction

Siri's new Cortana for voice search and artificial intelligence has grown dramatically, and the new personal assistant entry that integrates with the Start menu is not less than Siri.

The video of the black OnStar on the internet is really smile, but the development of speech recognition, input and interaction is very rapid. The Cortana service now covers the United States, Britain, China, France, Germany, Spain and Italy, and will then conquer Japan, Australia, Canada and India.

Compared to Siri on iOS, the Cortana integrated in the most visible locations of Windows 10 is more important to interact with. Different from long time document input, we are in the day-to-day search and operation, mostly based on phrases and vocabulary, such as we search "Web design Blog" Such things, and when we communicate with Cortana such tools, will say "Cortana, where can find a good web design blog?"

"OK Google Now", "Hey,siri" and "Hello Moto" have not been popular with the mobile end of the use of the habit, the desktop of the Cortana? It seems to have the possibility of opening up the situation. SEO and content marketing seem to be moving away from keywords, but the advent of the natural voice model will allow high-quality content search and natural language search to gradually occupy the market share of network search, in the next few years, this trend will become more and more obvious. The ease of operation and the obvious interface and significant tool attributes are the cornerstones of Cortana's search and interactive nouveau riche.

　　3, open, more excellent development platform

The two main factors that affect Windows vitality are budgeting and widely needed applications (typically business and business applications such as Office, and games).

As with Windows 8, Windows 10 now faces the lack of a large number of third-party plug-ins to improve their availability, and Microsoft's software store, which follows Google Play and app stores, is currently lacking in applications, music, movies, and so on. The biggest problem is when high quality applications such as the affinity Suite, Sketch 3, and Sublime Text (which are installed by themselves) will appear on the Windows platform.

The good news is that Microsoft's fast iterations will improve the security, stability and scalability of Windows 10, and that the quality of the platform will attract software developers and developer Plug-ins for software development.

With Apple's high quality requirements, its end products face a certain isolation, and Microsoft's relationship with hardware makers makes Windows ' market share nearly indestructible, making Windows 10 almost certain to be the world's most popular platform. Market competition will bring innovation, the beneficiaries are not just ordinary users, as a web designer you will certainly benefit from it. Every good version of Windows comes with a wave of quality software, and there's no reason for developers to be deterred from experiencing better, more powerful Windows 10. Windows 10 is more promptitude unified than Windows 8 ambiguous and messy interface design, and we can even foresee a series of excellent tools that are exclusive to the Windows platform full of Metro wind. Mac OS X breeds sketch, does Windows 10 have a unique draft to be born?

Many features of Windows 10 are unprecedented in order to be a better and more unified development platform. As standard as web designers, Firefox and Google browsers are almost always the browsers in every front-end and designer's computer, at least one of them. The high hopes of Windows 10 built-in edge browser no longer extend IE closed urine, it will maximize the support from the Google Browser plug-in system, even the API is as consistent as possible, which not only greatly facilitate the user, but also let the plugin developers a little adjustment, You can make the plug-in work perfectly in Windows default browser without even tweaking it. The proximity of interface and experience makes the multi-browser experience of Web pages more integrated and unified.

　4, iterative, the service of the lasting new

Microsoft's Windows team did not plan B and did not hide the next generation of products at Microsoft's HQ for the first time in its total focus on an operating system platform. Like Apple 17 years ago, Windows 10 began to build an evolving operating system platform through iterative evolution. Interestingly, the X in Mac OS x is not a letter, but 10 of the Roman numerals, and the tacit agreement between the two companies on the operating system seems to herald an interesting future.

Of course, OS X is not an isolated case, and Adobe's Creative Cloud, the Adobe CC Suite, also follows the same thread: unique name, continuous iteration.

In the eyes of new CEO Nadella and executive vice president Terry Myerson, Windows 10 is not only windows, it will also be the "last Windows"! It looks like Windows 10 is the final perfect version of Windows 8, But the new team and the very different direction of research and development make the two seemingly similar systems have an essential difference. They tried to make Windows 10 a "service" rather than a single, monolithic operating system. Prior to the large version of the update in Windows system will be replaced by frequent and fast iterations, the huge gap between versions will be filled by these smart and quick changes.

For web designers, a stable iteration of the platform means something extremely important: standardization. Design Web pages and products for traditional browsers and older browsers compromise this kind of thing will no longer happen on a large scale (dog X's ie6!), the new front-end technology will be continuously developed and supported in the change. Plus edge to Google browser closer, multiple browsers to achieve a unified experience, perhaps in the near future to achieve, this much better AH! Multi-platform compatibility, multi-dimension response, and cross-browser experience will be bridged in the next iteration of the upgrade.

　　Conclusion

Windows 10 finally endured the pain of a 8-time digging hole. Backward opponents for several years mobile end experience was made up, experienced enough to experience a good touch screen experience, full-featured support Excellent response-type operating system to make people's imagination, these excellent features people can not help but praise "Win10 is a good comrade!"

Finally can not help but to make up a knife, Microsoft's alternate generation kneeling curse is really ruined, the unfortunate reminders of me, Vista and 8 should be nailed to the stigma, is that why Microsoft intends to let the "version" of Windows 10 for a long time? Maybe it is, it's a stupid and effective plan.