Windows 10 is a personal computer operating system released by Microsoft as the successor to Windows 8, whose tile-based interface had been unpopular with many desktop users. It brought back the Start menu, added the Edge browser, the Cortana assistant and virtual desktops, and was offered as a free upgrade to users of Windows 7 and 8.1 during its first year. Microsoft described it as a service, with regular feature updates, instead of a new version every few years. It became the most widely used version of Windows for many years, and Microsoft ended support for it in October 2025.
Before and after
- 16 June 2015Rise of Trumpism
- 14 July 2015New Horizons flies by Pluto
- 20 July 2015Creation of Android Marshmallow
- 23 July 2015Discovery of Kepler-452b
- 29 July 2015Creation of Windows 10
- 29 July 2015Release of Microsoft Edge
- 30 July 2015Release of Ethereum
- August 2015Discovery of K2-18 b
- 21 August 20152015 Thalys train attack
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The era
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