Originally Posted by
Satish Singh Actually I am not judging the OS at all - technical or otherwise. I am trying to analyse the change of VISION of Microsoft, which was necessary to survive in a mobile first environment and that makes Windows 8.0 important.
If this is not a W10(M) thread but a MS strategy thread, then that makes things a lot more abstract.
For example, I see no internet based vision behind W95. The fact that it included support for internet technologies and telecommunications hardware out of the box were, basically, just features that were right for its time, and which every OS did. That was an OS' job after all.
Actually leveraging those internet technologies so as to provide compelling OS level services (an app store, hosted storage, etc), and tying it all together in a coherent way (something that deserves to be called a vision), is a far more recent affair.
In terms of how people interact with their devices, I'd say W10 significantly backtracks on the ideas W8 followed. At least in that department, I don't think W8 was necessary to arrive at W10.
On the other hand, the vision driving MS' unification efforts hasn't changed in ten years.