![]() For the touch crowd, with a few exceptions noted below, Windows 10 works as well as Windows 8.1, which may be (properly) construed as damning with faint praise. Ease of useįor those of us who rely on a mouse and keyboard, Windows 10’s ease of use rates right up there with Windows 7 and is light-years ahead of Windows 8/8.1. It’s the beginning of a new Windows, with all the good and bad that entails. These caveats aside, there’s no doubt Windows 10 holds a spark of greatness and should please those who were disenfranchised by Windows 8’s hamfisted changes. Those of us familiar with Microsoft’s Windows patching travails will face the future with some trepidation: How long until Microsoft force-feeds a bad patch, and how will Microsoft recover from it? That posture has already created problems, with an Nvidia driver hatched before its time and a patch that caused repeated Explorer restarts - both in the past week. We know that Microsoft will force updates on Windows 10 Home and Windows 10 Pro users who aren’t connected to update servers. Meanwhile, myriad questions remain unanswered. Think of TH2 as an accelerated Service Pack 1, ready for the enterprise. But the “real” Windows 10 (at least the “next final” version) won’t appear until October or thereabouts, in the form of Threshold 2. It seems obvious that Microsoft rushed the consumer version of Windows 10 out the door in time for back-to-school season. The lesser tile-based Windows apps vary in quality from good (Mail, Calendar) to passable (Photos, Phone Companion) to barely breathing placeholders (People, Groove Music, Movies & TV). They all work well enough, yet they all lack key capabilities. Many of the new features of Windows 10 do not seem ready for prime time, including the greatly modified Start menu with live tiles, the new Edge browser, Cortana, and the Continuum method of switching between mouse and touchscreen control. Despite substantial new functionality in Windows 10, Windows 7 users should wait until the upgrade train brings more improvements. ![]() The real question is whether Windows 10 deserves to supplant Windows 7. ![]() You might even call Windows 10 the most revolutionary version of Windows ever, mainly because it will be continually upgraded as part of Microsoft’s “ Windows as a service” effort.īut the question is not whether Windows 10 is a good upgrade for Windows 8 users - obviously, it is. Windows 10 is much more usable than Wndows 8 or 8.1 and proudly offers a bundle of new features, including improved security, a new browser, and the voice-activated intelligent assistant Cortana. Continuous upgrades could change that as early as this fallĪfter the truly wretched Windows 8 and marginally less wretched Windows 8.1, Windows 10 comes as a breath of fresh air. SAN MATEO, Calif., J(GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Backblaze, Inc.Windows 10 is what Windows 8 should have been, but it has too many rough edges to attract Windows 7 users. (Nasdaq: BLZE), the leading independent storage cloud platform, and Carahsoft Technology Corp., The Trusted Government IT Solutions Provider ®, today announced a partnership. Under the agreement, Carahsoft will serve as Backblaze’s Master Government Aggregator® to bring Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage to buying programs for federal, state, and local government healthcare and educational institutions through Carahsoft’s reseller partner network and public sector procurement vehicles, including National Cooperative Purchasing Alliance (NCPA) and OMNIA Partners contracts. “Public sector decision-makers reference budget, pricing models, and transparency as their biggest barriers to cloud adoption,” Nilay Patel, VP of Sales and Partnerships at Backblaze noted. “That’s why this partnership is so exciting: Our services come at a fraction of the price of other options, and we’ve long been known for our transparent, trusted approach to working with customers.”īackblaze’s recent launch of Backblaze B2 Reserve-a capacity-based pricing bundle-has led to rapid growth in availability of their services through the channel. Recent research shows that the public sector CIOs driving cloud adoption (creating a 14.3% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) over the past five years) are increasingly seeking to optimize their cloud spend as they face a return to work “ budget snapback” with on-site IT expenses coming back into the picture. Through the partnership with Carahsoft, Backblaze can be instrumental in meeting that need. ![]() “Backblaze’s ease-of-use, affordability, and transparency are just some of the major advantages of their robust cloud backup and storage services,” said Evan Slack, Director of Sales for Emerging Cloud and Virtualization Technologies at Carahsoft. ![]()
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