Windows 10 Inside Out, Third Edition

Introduction

Microsoft Windows has been around for more than three decades. During that time, it has grown to become a mainstay of business and personal computing, running on some 1.5 billion devices worldwide.

The authors of this book began working together in 2001 with the very first title in the Inside Out series, covering Windows XP. Like many of you, we took a break a few years ago, watching from the sidelines as Microsoft released Windows 8 and Windows 8.1. We returned for Windows 10 because, quite frankly, we were excited by the possibilities of “Windows as a service.” As we predicted in the first edition of this book, published shortly after the initial release of Windows 10 in 2015, Windows 10 is evolving rapidly.

That evolution has ...