It’s been nearly a week since Microsoft announced that it will follow Windows 8.1 with Windows 10 — and released its Technical Preview so that those interested could take a first look at the new operating system. Since then I’ve been exploring the new OS, alongside the sparse documentation Microsoft has released.

Much of the under-the-hood kernel level work has been done; the Preview is a tool for Microsoft to understand how to bring its next-generation Windows to its desktop users. That’s an important problem for the Windows team to solve before the new OS is released in mid-2015. Some enterprise customers are still moving from Windows XP to Windows 7, so Microsoft needs to put in place an upgrade path from Windows 7 to this new version. It needs, as Terry Myerson, Microsoft’s executive vice president of operating systems, said in San Francisco, “to feel like going from a Prius to a Tesla” — without having to learn to drive all over again.

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