Windows 10

Microsoft finally announced its upcoming version of Windows earlier on this week, and to the surprise of just about everybody, the software maker has opted to call it Windows 10. A bit strange, particularly given that the last major version was Windows 8, but nevertheless, it's the features that count. On first impressions, the updated edition of the software giant’s flagship operating system has plenty of those, and with the Technical Preview having been subsequently rolled out, desktop users are beginning to adjust to the tweaked environment. If you want to install / run as a virtual machine, it's not that difficult to get up and running, and below, we've a step-by-step tutorial guiding you through the necessary steps to achieving this goal via Parallels Desktop.

Tuesday's introduction of Windows 10 has pretty much everyone in the tech stratosphere discussing the reasoning behind the decision to miss out Windows 9. The majority of pundits and technology analysts involved in keeping abreast of Microsoft news were pretty sure that the company would release an all-singing, all-dancing product that would make the usual evolutionary jump up the naming ladder from Windows 8 to Windows 9. Alas, that was not to be the case, but why you ask? According to one Reddit user, a piece of common code found in a large set of third-party apps could provide us with an answer to that problem.

While the showcasing of Windows 10 was as much about a concerted push on the enterprise sector as anything else, Microsoft also noted that members of its wider ecosystem would be in better tune with one another, creating a more unified platform as a whole. No great details were given to elaborate on the "One product family,One platform, One store" slogan seen in a graphic at the event, but the accompanying images do offer something of a sneak peek into the future interfaces of both Windows Phone and Xbox.

Official download links of Windows 10 Technical Preview are now live over at Microsoft. More details, along with download links can be found below.