Windows 10: Windows 10X shown running on a smartphone – and it looks pretty cool

Microsoft’s vision for the future of Windows is to design the operating system for all form factors whereby features can be tailored specifically to the device posture the software will be running on.

This project was originally known as Andromeda OS and it was supposed to be focused on mobile devices, such as phones and tablets. The plans changed in 2018 when the idea of a mobile-focused OS with more cross-platform capabilities was shelved by the company, and the decision was made to turn the dual-screen phone into an Android device (Surface Duo).

Some of the work moved to other things and Microsoft started focusing on Windows 10X, which is based on modular Windows Core OS.

We have already seen a video of the near-final build of Windows 10X running on Surface Pro 7. In the latest feat, developers have now successfully ported the operating system to a mobile device – showing how Windows 10X works on a small screen device with a touchscreen.

Developers were able to get Windows 10X up and running on the Lumia 950 XL successfully, thanks to its adaptive user interface.



Of course, Windows 10X on mobile still needs a bunch of fixes, but the experiment confirms that Windows Core OS-based software is being able to adapt the user interface depending on the form factor and type of input it is attached to.



The ultimate idea is just to have one version of the OS with components which are fully adaptive so that it can run on any device with little modifications.

At any rate, Windows Core OS is obviously a sensible direction for Microsoft to be heading in, and it could finally make the operating system modular.

According to reports, the first incarnation of Windows 10X and Windows Core OS is focused on single-screen devices and Microsoft is planning to add dual-screen support next year. Of course, expecting new smartphones running this OS in 2021 would be wildly optimistic.

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Concerns about Windows 10X

These days I read in the press that Windows 10X for low-cost devices (and in educational areas) will be delivered without local Win32 application support. It is rumored that Win32 applications may be running over a cloud service instead, but the authors
weren´t sure.

I hope very much that also low-cost devices running with Windows 10X will also support Win32 applications - even when a cloud service will be used. So-called "legacy apps" are often used in educational areas, e. g. when you need to use special learning software.
If Windows 10X do not support that somehow, it will be propably a flop.

I tried W10X on an old PC in the emulator - despite the PC I used is from 2009, Win32 apps were running successfully in the container (sometimes slow - but slow is better than a completely missing support).

ChromeOS, the main competitor of W10X, is running also Android apps (and also Windows apps soon, as I heard). The same should be also possible on low-cost Windows 10X devices with Win32 apps. Otherwise users will wonder where the benefits are and buy a Chromebook
instead, because they or their children can use all their Android apps and games on it that they know from their smartphone.

If the user cannot use the same applications that they use on their PC (except high-end software, games etc.) there will be no incentive to buy a W10X device.

Win32 applications are also often used in companies. It´s an advantage to know how to use them when you start to work after your graduation. Companies do not need people who knows how to play colorful smartphone games but who don´t know how to use Excel,
tax programs or image editing software.

I don´t know if the rumors are true - but I hope that Win32 support will be included somehow.

Why should Windows 10X be called "Windows" then?

This post is meant to be constructive.

 

Windows 10x

Is there any chance now that Panos panay runs Windows that we could get live tiles on Windows 10x?

 

[concept] A mercury-cooled computer would be pretty cool.

Still it would look pretty cool and, if done right, could be a museum piece.