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Sounds like "a new OS" just means a few Windows user interface tweaks.

• krylon 5y ago
  To be fair, some major changes are not directly user-visible. For example, Microsoft created a new programming language (called "P") to rewrite the USB stack in Windows 8 or 8.1 that allegedly made that part more secure/reliable. EDIT: I suppose there is a certain pressure to mess with the UI, so non-technical people will "see" the difference. Some changes have been genuine improvements, IMHO, like AeroSnap or the search field in the start menu, others have been disastrous (cough Windows 8 cough).
  • tasogare 5y ago
    > the search field in the start menu That's one of the worst offender. It opens a separate windows instead of searching in the menu itself, and returns a lot of crap (including web queries, wtf) except what it supposed to do: searching in installed applications. That can be done, at the expense of an additional click. Very poor UX by mixing concerns that belongs to different applications (Explorer and the browser).
    • krylon 5y ago
      As far as I recall, it did not do that in Windows 7. I have not used Windows 10 that much.
  • dmitriid 5y ago
    > P") to rewrite the USB stack in Windows 8 or 8.1 that allegedly made that part more secure/reliable. I wonder if that's why even on a gaming desktop USBs default to "turn off power to preserve battery" which made my keyboard stutter, and I had to turn off this setting from Device Manager.