Beauty store owners who reacted to Windows 8 with howls of incredulity can take heart: Microsoft is bending over backwards with its next Windows release to win back the mouse-and-keyboard crowd.
Yes, it's true. With Windows 10 - there will be no Windows 9 - due for release in summer 2015, Microsoft will once again make it simple to navigate the operating system with a keyboard and mouse. Moreover, the Redmond, Washington goliath will be bringing back other features - such as the Start Menu - that make Windows such a hit in previous incarnations.
For Kim Snyder, CEO of Overall Beauty (overallbeauty.com), it's about time. "As someone who had to replace her laptop and go from Windows 7 to Windows 8.1, I can understand how users of Windows would be so upset about the changes that came out with [Windows] 8," Snyder says. "Too much change all at once. They should never [have] done away with the basics of Windows 7."
Continue reading this story in Beauty Store Business' August digital edition.
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