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Microsoft confirms Windows 10x is not coming in 2021, and likely never will

• charles_f 5y ago
  The article mentions 10x is abandoned but does not explain what 10x is. What is 10x?
  • snypher 5y ago
    Microsoft Chrome OS targeted at dual display devices like the Surface Neo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface_Neo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface_Neo
  • detaro 5y ago
    (yet another) attempt to make a version of windows that gives up some backwards compatibility and features in exchange for more consistent design/less cruft/... Somewhere in the area of "Windows RT but more desktop-like" and "ChromeOS but Windows". Rumored to be planned to launch without support for Win32 apps. Targeting similar markets as Chromebooks: Education, limited end-user devices in companies, ...
    • nashashmi 5y ago
      Then I am glad they killed it. We already had windows 10s. Did we need another round 2?
      • naikrovek 5y ago
        10X was different than S, it could run Win32 apps that didn't do anything hacky or gnarly, and it was a very cleaned-up windows experience. I can't say it would have taken off, but it was a different approach than Windows 10 S was.
        • ksec 5y ago
          And I was thinking 10X isn't perfect, but I like the direction it was going. Not quite sure where Microsoft is going with Windows from now on.
          • atatatat 5y ago
            Look at the Duo, and think about a dock.
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• cafard 5y ago
  There goes my hope of being a 10x programmer...