Windows 10 Room for Improvement
There is a little bit room for improvement in UI. I would just recommend that Windows 10 focus more on security. Windows 10 should update patches promptly as they become available for normal security purposes to prevent hacking and other issues.
View full review »I want the solution's support to be improved. I want the support to be faster.
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Nelson Mendaros
Founding Partner at 2Five1
I'm currently facing an issue on Windows 10 related to pop-up notifications. The problem is identifying which specific application requires attention when the taskbar notifies about an important event. For instance, when working on an application, the taskbar appears with a notification but doesn't indicate which application needs attention. I have to minimize the active application windows to identify it, which can be inconvenient.
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Stability can be an issue. I have to restart it every two days. And the boot time is quite long. My laptop's old, has no SSD, and is just a traditional Winchester. Had desktops with Windows 11 and SSDs, much better performance. But hardware limitations on my current laptop lead to stability and response issues.
It's more like the whole reinstall every two years thing. It makes cleaning a pain. Performance improves significantly after a fresh install, then slowly deteriorates as I add more programs.
But my biggest concern with Windows 10 is actually bigger than my situation. I'm replacing my laptop anyway, but I read that Windows 10 support ends in a year or so. And with hardware limitations, many other computers won't run Windows 11. So it's not just me. A lot of people with decent, still-working Windows 10 machines will lose support and be unable to switch to 11.
This will be a significant problem for individuals and institutions. Large companies with thousands of computers don't replace them every three years, and they might face issues with many computers unable to run Windows 11 and lacking support for 10.
View full review »Remote access should be improved in the product. In Microsoft Windows 10, screen sharing is an area of concern where improvements are needed, as such an option is not user-friendly. If I want to connect another user to my laptop or computer, it should be easy to connect.
Microsoft must automate the part involving patch updates for Windows 10.
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Karan Chawla
Digital Workplace Solutions Architect and Presales at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
The negative is that the OS has made the room heavier, so it requires much more hardware than before. That's based on Moore's Law, that you will keep increasing the hardware as the application keeps developing.
The experience could be a little more modernized. I can't compare it with Android, where the experience is really user friendly. The compatibility of having an Android app being run inside a simulator on Windows is something that can be added. I think that's still a long way to go, but I think that's a scenario that could possibly address some of the concerns.
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reviewer0976523
System and network security engineer at Central Bank of Nigeria
Windows 10 has already been moved to Windows 11, but of course, they are more or less the same tool. Windows 10 can do something to make the tool available without the need to boot it. It takes a lot of time to boot Windows 10, and I want it to complete the booting process in two or three minutes. The search functionality in the product has glitches at times.
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MaAlk
Risk Analyst at King Faisal Specialist Hospital
The design of different folders and icons should be more intuitive and accessible. Windows 10 should offer the wireless transfer of file and folder sharing between mobile devices and computers, similar to the AirDrop feature by Apple.
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Windows 10 should provide more frequent updates.
View full review »The system's pricing needs improving.
View full review »I would like the updates to be less intrusive. It would be great if Windows could update without restarting. They've made some improvements in that regard, but there is still some room to do better. I would still like monthly updates, but it would be nice if I didn't need to tell everyone to log out and save their work because their computer needs to be rebooted.
I could also do without the advertising and notifications in the default browser. It's annoying. One of the first changes we make is to switch off those extra distractions that it tries to put in there.
View full review »The solution's updates are an area where the solution needs to improve. The updates are a painful thing at times because they are done without testing before the releases. I have to block the updates and Windows patches.
Speaking about the features I want to see in the future, right now, the updates which are on Windows are not deleted. It occupies a huge space in terms of GB unless manually removed from the system. They used to remove the older versions, which were not applicable, but now this is not happening. It just occupies space in the system.
The updates keep coming in, and the frequency of Windows Updates can be reduced. Sometimes there are bugs. This makes some features not work correctly. Applications in Windows 10 also hang sometimes.
In the future, they should check thoroughly for bugs before releasing the update.
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Santosh Kurakula
Group DWH and BI Senior Manager at Virgin Mobile Middle East and Africa
The security needs to improve.
View full review »The solution’s security and stability could be improved.
View full review »In the beginning, the system froze a few times.
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ImranRasheed
Manager, IT at KAS Enterprises
Microsoft needs to stop experimenting with different options and settle down, especially when it comes to Windows 10. If something broken in Windows 10 gets fixed in a year or two by Microsoft, then it gets broken again in the next update.
In Windows 10, you can access a particular setting page in two clicks. In Windows 11 eleven, you get to the same setting page you used in Windows 10 after four or five clicks. When Microsoft comes up with Windows 12, it will be six to eight clicks, meaning that with each update, it gets complicated.
In Windows 10, you can access a particular setting page with two clicks. In Windows 11 eleven, you get to the same setting page you used in Windows 10 after four or five clicks. When Microsoft comes up with Windows 12, it will take six to eight clicks.
After Windows 95, Microsoft changed everything drastically. If you were a user of an Apple computer and you also used macOS 10 around 15 years ago, you may have seen how Apple comes up with new versions, but it still looks the same. The person who was using macOS 10 can easily use the latest macOS. If you pick a person who has used Windows 95 and you give him a computer with Windows 11, he will be lost. Windows 10 and Windows 11 are not different from each other, but Microsoft keeps adding differences. If you go back into the past, then you will see that five years ago, there were a lot of differences between Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, and Windows 11. In general, most of the time, the updates in Windows 10 bring problems instead of solving them, making it an area requiring improvements.
At the time, I used Windows 10, and it crashed a lot, but not as much as previous versions of Windows. That's one thing I can remember being a bit of a pain.
Moreover, I would like to see the little things like when you're working with Windows Explorer, you can open multiple tabs. It wasn't available in Windows 10.
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Jenifer Cardona
IT head at Ficobank
The solution should improve the updates because the computers have a boot error whenever they release an upgrade.
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VaishnaviM
Associate Software Development Engineer at Publicis Sapient
I like the way it is already, I don't think I would improve anything about Windows 10. The licensing price could be cheaper, though.
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Cliff Matonda
System Administrator at Finlays
After some time it becomes slower. The performance seems to be affected after a while.
While they might already have this, I find that Windows has many workspaces and people just end up using one and ignoring the others. A person ends up opening so many windows and then just looking at one screen. It makes them ignore the others. They need to rework it so that this is less likely to happen. It needs to be a bit more user-friendly.
System resource consumption is more than Linux.
I would like better RAM and better memory optimization.
View full review »Patch management could be improved.
View full review »The solution's UI could be better.
View full review »I found that it slowed down my laptop a bit.
I find that, when we start the laptop, when we shut down and restart the laptop, it will take a bit of time to restart. It will take around one minute to restart in total, which feels like a long time. I need the time to be reduced. After replacing the SSD, it reduced the time a bit, however, it has not reduced the time that much overall.
The interface could be more friendly.
Some security features and some services are automatically getting switched on that is of no use. There should be an option that allows us to customize the services that we want to run or that we don't want to run.
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Israel Ayobamiji
Computer Repair Technician at self-employed
When there are updates, the system should automatically identify and remove any unnecessary previous features that are no longer needed, ensuring that they don't take up space on the storage media during this period. A reduction in pricing aligned with the local exchange rate would indeed be a welcomed improvement.
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Alaa Asabeh
Solution Manager at Huawei
Sometimes, upgrades may fail, leading to system crashes or other unexpected issues. There have been instances of performance concerns and occasional hiccups when dealing with Huawei's customized version of Windows 10.
View full review »Windows 10 should have less frequent updates.
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Michael Barg
Principal Consultant at Lexington Consulting
It would be great if Microsoft could make PCs boot much faster but I think it may be more of a function of the PC's system design than the operating system. Solid-state drives have no mechanical mechanisms making them faster than the earlier hard disk drive technology. I'm an end-user, like most people, and want my PC to boot faster so I may begin my work.
As I think further about Windows 10 improvement, it would be better if Microsoft could improve how their operating system stores files. And I would like to find my information quicker without having to devise a new search strategy every time I forget where I stored a file.
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reviewer1428423
Head of Technical Support at a real estate/law firm with 51-200 employees
Windows 7 and Windows 10 are identical. However, Windows 10 is the slowest of all the variants. You need to use a solid-state drive if you are going to run Windows. Otherwise, once you install it, and give it some time it is going to slow your whole system down. Especially if you are using the internet, it is going to slow your system down fast. Additionally, it could be more secure as Windows 10 is more vulnerable to viruses.
This solution is very different from Linux where everything that you run is a process. Windows is not as fast as Linux, it is slower when you run processes, but Windows has something that attracts you to it and I think it is because of familiarity.
Microsoft monitors what you are doing. If they removed telemetry, Cortana, and other snooping tactics it would be a lot faster. The updates have to be watched because they can have some surprises related to the gathering of information.
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WillySmith
Support at Za irery
PowerShell could be improved.
View full review »The tool needs to include NetMeeting which helps people to collaborate.
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reviewer933660
Vice President at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
It would be nice to have more integration with other platforms, something which is always welcome.
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Jeizer Marinho
Team Leader at a recruiting/HR firm with 10,001+ employees
Some time ago we had Windows Forms, but it did not perform well enough and Microsoft ended up terminating that area of the business.
I believe that it would be beneficial to introduce Windows Forms back into the solution to have a better experience transitioning from a desktop to a mobile version.
Currently, we are experiencing a lot of activities from hackers. People trying to break into the networks to access our data. This is an issue that is causing concern. I don't see a way of making it better or different. This became a large business for hackers.
It would be great to have a more secure interface, especially in a business environment of critical content. For example, our company has a very high level of governance and security procedures.
There are many updates on a monthly basis. I understand that is how Microsoft helps their customers to manage and be secure with regard to Cyberattacks that we may experience. From a user's perspective, it's not a good experience. From an IT perspective, I know how important those things are.
It should be something that runs more in the background where it is not seen and has less of an impact than they usually have.
When we roll out any Microsoft patch across the Network which is done every Thursday, it had not seen a few computers having issues. That's bringing us X amount of work because we need to remediate the user's issue and all those things.
If Microsoft could find a way to better manage updates and patches, that could be more useful for end users, which would be good.
From an IT perspective, I would like something similar to Splunk where it has some type of visibility, or provide the user with power, or something that we could enable. For example, if we were attacked, we could enable something or download something as a part of the Microsoft portfolio to provide us with more visibility about the threat that is floating around.
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reviewer1539270
Technician at a government with 10,001+ employees
The stability could be improved, as I've had issues where it's crash or frozen.
Some of the command-line utilities could be a little cleaner.
There could be more information available online for PowerShell. It has a lot, but there can never be enough of that.
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Sudhakar Reddy
Sr Data Governance Architect at Mresult
The on-premise product is costly. It would be good if the product’s price were reduced.
View full review »The product must reduce the number of updates. When a company uses an operating system, the employees must adapt it. It can release more versions instead of giving so many updates.
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Ankit Rajan
Functional Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Windows 10 could be improved by providing a data recovery application default. This is the most critical thing I have ever figured out in my career. If you accidentally deleted the data from the machine—the local machine—there is no way to get it back unless you install a third-party application. When your machine is connected to an IP domain, sometimes you won't be able to install a third-party application because it becomes a compliance issue, so you can get in trouble. Windows 10 should provide a data recovery solution.
For additional features, I would like Windows to come with a powerful video editor. If I am developing a presentation or something, I have to find it myself somewhere. If you want to put in GI for any kind of video and do a presentation, it's pretty difficult to open a video, edit it, or do anything. If you have a video, you can simply add it, right? But there's no Microsoft in-house product for that—we have to use Adobe Photoshop or something. There are just some little, very small features that, if Microsoft added, would make life easier.
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LuisRibeiro
Fresh Operations Manager at Jerónimo Martins
The user interface could improve for the Portuguese language and more features should be added.
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Irad Dukad
IT Manager at ducart
The solution isn't overly scalable, from what I have witnessed.
The security should be better on the solution.
Microsoft should work to make the product more flexible than it currently is.
The solution could be a bit expensive.
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Noor Parkar
Sr. System and Storage Administrator at a government with 51-200 employees
The security aspect of the solution could be improved. they should work to make sure that their security is built out and more robust in future releases.
The interface itself could be more user-friendly.
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Pete Fotopoulos
Vice President - Network and Infrastructure at NJA LLC
I think the user interface can be a little bit better. Improve the menus because navigating the menu could be a little difficult if you don't have any experience.
They need to get rid of that hive registry. Over time, the hive can get defragged, and you have to start installing and uninstalling. It becomes very fragmented and very convoluted with multi-layers.
Their support could also be better. Sometimes support can get lost when outsourced or outsourced somewhere to a different culture.
View full review »Windows needs to improve the memory process—memory management. Sometimes, it consumes too much.
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Майя Димитрова
Implementing consultant at Simark
It takes too long to find files. The search feature could be improved.
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reviewer2301675
Director of MSc Corporate Finance at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Windows Updating System needs improvement.
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Gwan An Tan
Owner with 11-50 employees
Allowing us to follow up by email, for example, might improve the company approval process. The workflow could be improved.
It's difficult to determine the source of an issue when it comes to performance. There is room for improvement in troubleshooting.
It's not always easy to use Microsoft Teams through the browser or an app. When there is a collaborative meeting, they should make it easier for the user to connect right away. When we get an invitation from someone outside, we have a hard time accepting it.
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Sai-Krishna
Manager, BI & Analytics at Perceptive Analytics
I do not recall coming across any missing features. Just like any other Windows product, it's great. I can't think of anything else to add.
Like all Windows products or like all the Microsoft products, like Office, it's priced a bit on the higher side.
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Abdulla Pathan
Technology Competency and Solution Head at LearningMate
The price could be cheaper. If they want to compete with Linux, they need to actually come out at a lesser cost.
I would like to see the price reduced.
View full review »I get updates continuously. The product must send updates less frequently. The copy speed changes depending on the size of the file.
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reviewer2161185
Senior Manager - Infrastructure Managed Services at a wholesaler/distributor with 10,001+ employees
AI tools like ChatGPT should be integrated into the solution.
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reviewer973497
Manager at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
Windows 10 could be improved by implementing synchronization between Teams and Skype for Business. If you're in a conference call in one tool, the other tool shows that you're available. This means that you get calls from other people in your organization while you are unavailable. So synchronization is missing, that's all.
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reviewer1712268
Program Administrator at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
The performance of Windows 10 is a bit slow because it takes a lot of time for loading. That is a concern because the same 4GB Ram laptop, which I used with Windows XP and other versions, has been faster than Windows 10.
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reviewer1681944
Business development manager for data protection solutions at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
It's hard to define how Windows 10 could be improved. I've been using Windows for years, and every time I see progress, so I'm focused on the positive instead of the negative. But it's time-consuming to struggle with some issues. I don't think it's worth the time I have to spend fixing or finding something.
In terms of ways to improve Windows 10, I would like more interface options for this desktop. Right now, it's like a web design network with all these icons from Microsoft. The work area is selected by news collected from the outside, with some application set but not the full scope of the application I've installed. So it would be nice to have the option to switch between this design and the previous one. Working with Windows 7, I preferred to use commands or applications like in the old version. So it would be nice to be able to change the look and feel of the design.
And, of course, we are always talking about the security of private and professional data. So I hope for more protection against ransomware attacks. I expect that this will be included in a software update. Of course, I know that it could be covered by separate antivirus software, but I think that Microsoft has something like this included for home use, private use, and professional use. A company might accept the level of security offered by standard Microsoft software. It could be fine, but if not, there is always the option of buying something additional. Microsoft's security rules are a disadvantage, but then again, I can expect every company to use something like that.
View full review »In the next release, Windows could make the interface more user-friendly. They could add more dashboards. The performance could also maybe be better.
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reviewer1656567
Project Lead Performance Engineer & Automation at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
The solution is expensive. They should lower the price point.
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reviewer1430709
Works at a real estate/law firm with 10,001+ employees
The solution could improve by providing web applications and have Windows 10 on Azure as a virtual machine.
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KrisVan De Vijver
Senior Infrastructure and System Engineer at a pharma/biotech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
On a MacBook, in macOS, whatever application you have opened or are using, whether it's Apple or third-party or part of the OS or not, it doesn't matter, at any point you can always zoom in on the screen by just simply pushing a button and rotating the mouse scroll wheel for example, at any time. It's very smooth and fast zooming capabilities. You can zoom in very a lot or zoom in limited, whatever you need, at any part of the screen. I love that feature.
However, in Windows 10, the magnifier is really bad in comparison to the macOS zooming feature. I don't exactly remember what Apple calls it, however, the Windows magnifier is really bad. I tried also some third-party zooming tools and software for Windows, which were also really bad. This is something I really miss in Windows. In Windows, the magnifier really isn't that great.
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EmanTaky
Senior System Administrator at KnowledgeNet
The updates are excessively long and take an entire hour during startup, which is ridiculous. The solution also does not provide the option of installing updates. There should be an option to restart without needing an update.
I don't like the problem with the updates. The user must restart after downloading an update, but no option is given to do the installation at a later point. This means that the user is faced with the choice of either restarting when he updates or shutting down when he does so. With the former this can take an hour to an hour-and-a-half. This makes no sense.
In short, the updates could be faster and better performing.
While Microsoft does a good job, this is an issue which must be addressed.
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reviewer1327623
Founder, President & COO at a analyst firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
I don't like a lot of the features that are in it. I'm still somewhat archaic in that I like the form-factor of a traditional laptop: I don't want to touch my screen; I don't want it to behave like a tablet; I don't want it to bend in weird ways that I'm never actually going to use. There are a lot of features in Windows 10 that seem to be designed for it to be deployed on a Window's surface or something like that. I don't want that Cortana voice feature. I don't need to talk to my laptop. The phone application where you can integrate your smartphone with it so that you can directly view images that are on your phone, that feature sucks. Everything's tied-in via Bluetooth; it's kind of a pain in the ass because it hijacks your calls.
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Avelino Fernandes
IT specialist at IGFEJ
Windows 10 could be more compatible with Linux-based programs. We would prefer to use Linux, but we need human support. Our leaders decided to go that way. They prefer to pay more for Microsoft because they believe it offers a better value.
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reviewer1653975
Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Sometimes we getting slowness issues while performing some heavy operations. We aren't multitasking or anything, however, some heavy load is there. In those times, Windows 10 is not responding as we would like it to. They need to improve this.
As of now, I haven't seen many ain points per see. However, whether we're upgrading the software or clearing the cache, it would help us if the solution was more responsive.
The security could be improved. I have had colleagues who have gotten their files corrupted somehow.
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reviewer1327578
Enterprise Architect at a real estate/law firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
They could really improve or clarify user account types and stuff. I help people with their Microsoft Windows 10 installations and setups. A lot of times, I pre-configure devices for them, and it is a pain to switch the user so that it shows them as the owner when I've done the initial setup. I have found some workarounds for that, but user management on it outside of a domain is somewhat cumbersome. They probably expected that one person is going to be the management and owner of it, and they seem to have built it that way, but third parties like us, who help friends and family with their setups, can sometimes run into some headaches while trying to help people without having our data loaded over to the machine with the synchronization.
Microsoft has a tendency to try and put too much into what is supposed to be just an operating system. I would rather have choices and pick what I want to include. They sometimes cram too much in there.
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reviewer1719711
Co-Founder at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
This solution is good enough, but Windows is always playing catch-up when it comes to development. For instance, Docker containers is technology that was introduced with Linux and they just decided that it was usable. The primary reason why I rarely use Windows is that it's not interesting from a development perspective.
An improvement I would like to see is in Windows updates. They don't seem to test the updates. My wife uses Windows as well and after the update, her computer was no longer usable. It was what we call the "blue screen of death." It had to be erased and started up from scratch, which was a nightmare. It seems that they aren't testing their updates anymore, they're just pushing them, and they're not propagating the updates to everybody. They're propagating to a specific, small portion of people. Only after do they check if everything is okay. If there's no bad feedback, then they increase the scope, release the updates to the wider public, and so on. Windows is a paid operating system, so this is not normal and not okay. I would expect this from open source technologies, but even these are better. We are using the open source version of Ubuntu, which is free, and it's still way better than the updates for Microsoft operating systems. I have only worked with the desktop version of Windows 10, so I don't know how things work for the server operating systems, but at least for the common user of Windows 10, it's a nightmare.
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Manoj Chitgopeker
Region Head - S1@Dimension Data India at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
I would like to have more security. With each passing phase, you must strengthen your security. In the next release, I am expecting more security from Windows.
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reviewer1710669
Office 365 support specialist at a renewables & environment company with 51-200 employees
I do not like the interface of Windows 10 very much and the performance could be enhanced. Sometimes everything is a little bit cumbersome. When I used the interface of Windows 7 it was much quicker than Windows 10, as far as finding the information. I preferred Windows 7 for this interoperability. It was easier to interact with the Windows 7, to use the control panel. With Windows 10 there are fewer settings in the control panel as well, but there's the different possibility to reach the same information, and sometimes it creates confusion.
Overall, it was easier to reach different programs in the previous version.
In an upcoming release of Windows 10, I would like to see less. There are too many elements or settings. I prefer the operating system to be very minimal because it's only the base to access all the software. It doesn't need to be cumbersome, it should contain what we need and nothing more. For example, the weather, or similar features, only take up memory.
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reviewer1652925
Test Automation Lead at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
If we talk about Windows, it's too generic.
The enterprise version I have contains many things that are not intended to be enterprise; they are intended for home customers. This includes things like some games and some stuff like that. It needs to be more streamlined and customized for business users.
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Ossama Helmy
Telecommunication Department Head at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I have no notes on how to make it better. For my purposes, it has worked perfectly.
The security could always be better. I'd like more security specifically on my PC and I have noticed that Windows does not yet offer very good security.
View full review »It would be better if there were more integration with Linux and Azure.
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reviewer1179735
IT Business Relationship Manager at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
It would be great if the solution was more stable. It's a mass-produced product and people around the world use it extensively, which makes it a target for attacks. It needs better security against hackers.
The solution needs to be more resilient against viruses. Apple computers, for example, are great in this sense.
The solution could be more lightweight. The OS should be built lighter. Users shouldn't have to buy the highest-end processor or devices in order to run the OS smoothly. There should be less demand on the hardware.
They could build or create an operating system that's less powerful than now. Currently, every year, we have to buy new devices just to have the best of Microsoft Windows products. If you want to have the best SharePoint, you have to add RAM. You have to have more and more powerful machines, just to have it run properly. It's demanding on the consumer. There are too many upgrades that are necessary and they happen too often.
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Curtis Wright
IT System Administrator at Frank, Rimerman & Co
The settings and control panel are oddly disjointed. Things that show up in the Control Panel do not always show up in Settings and vice-versa. It is a pain to remember what is where.
View full review »I would like to get less frequent updates from Windows 10.
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KurikkilYooseff
SAP Busines Tech Lead. at a non-tech company with 5,001-10,000 employees
The product is exposed to more threats compared to Mac.
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reviewer1157742
Telco and IT Cloud based solutions at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Windows 10 isn't as stable as MacOS and requires too many patches. When the patches are installing, it slows down the PC. These changes are complex, and many processes are running simultaneously, so we experience a decrease in speed.
Another thing that could be useful is the ability to create virtual machines inside to have a hypervisor if it's possible. That way, we could use the operating system to create new virtual machines, allowing us to add special installations that might be useful for personal projects. But this is complex, but it could meet the market demand. VMware is the most widely used system globally, and Oracle is also common. So it would be great if we had something that could be used inside the operating system without installing something on top.
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reviewer1739889
Technology Manager at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I cannot recall coming across any shortcomings or missing features.
The pricing could always be lower.
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reviewer968298
Senior Account Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Windows 10 is a typical Microsoft operating system. Sometimes it doesn't work, and it constantly needs fixing in terms of upgrades, patches, etc. It does its job, but it can be unpredictable.
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Fauzi Yusof
General Manager at Mun Chuen Transport
I haven't extensively explored all of the features and aspects of the solution.
The time it takes to initially install the solution could be a bit less. Right now, it takes a few hours. We'd like it to be faster.
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reviewer1566693
Market Data and Solace Specialist at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Certain aspects of the solution are really complicated and should be simplified. I am referring to features we utilize daily, such as those used for finding things and Internet Explorer.
MS Office or Internet Explorer has a big ribbon on top. While it may be useful, it occupies a lot of screen space. My laptop contains a very small screen of just 13 inches, which is full HD, meaning that the forms already appear very small. As the ribbon occupies some of this needed space, reducing it would free up that which is on the screen.
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Mr. Antonio Damian
Sales Manager at INFOSEC
We are always excited and interested to learn about new features. It would be helpful to know of the newly available features in advance.
I would prefer to talk to the computer as I would speak to a secretary rather than use the keyboard. It would be nice to be able to speak to the computer and ask it to do certain functions or tasks. A voice-activated assistant would be very helpful.
When compared to MacIntosh, or Linux, it would be helpful to include some of their operating system philosophy.
It is incompatible with some communications when you need to share some data.
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Mike Krumm
Collaboration Specialist at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
It takes a lot of hard drive space when you're using it. I also have Windows 10 on my personal computer, and it does take up an awful lot of hard drive space. This is probably something about which nothing can be done, and it is just a pet peeve of mine.
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Aamir Hussain
Production Operator at Al Ghurair Investments
In terms of what could be improved, I would say the security patches. The security patches do not come very frequently with the operating systems. So this requires a lot of improvement because the security patches only come every now and then.
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reviewer1143465
IT Systems Administrator at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I would like to see hardware resource monitoring features in the tool's next release.
View full review »The solution is not secure. The solution should send updates less frequently.
View full review »Microsoft could improve the support for installing programs. It should be easy to install programs from Microsoft and search in the Microsoft Store.
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reviewer1380207
Consultant at a educational organization with 201-500 employees
The Windows 10 interface should work more like a tablet, where you do not have to run the program directly. You need to remember the program name by heart and type it into the search or run it in the command prompt. For example, if you want to go directly to the old school install/uninstall programs, it takes a lot of clicks.
They try to make it user-friendly for non-technical users. But, when you have a little bit of technical experience, you find it difficult to go around UI wrapper.
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PradeepKumar11
IT Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I wouldn't describe the solution as scalable.
Compared to Ubuntu or other products, I don't consider the operating system to be that great in terms of stability.
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reviewer936228
Manager- Projects at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
It would be nice if the next version of Windows had more integration.
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Najeeb Haneefa
IT Manager at a insurance company with 51-200 employees
The main issue is related to the patch security management that is released. The updates take a lot of time to complete, and they could be faster.
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reviewer1642500
Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
While the stability is okay, it could always be better.
The product needs to be able to scale a bit more effectively.
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reviewer1524594
Senior Solutions Architect at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees
As it is an operating system, it needs more support.
They should change their policy to include some basic support for more than just updates. We require limited support for customers and issues.
For example, Microsoft has what is known as the blue screen of death or BSOD.
When you experience BSOD, the operating system is corrupted. It needs to be reconfigured or reinstalled, and you have to reconfigure all of the applications as well. For this to be done, the customer must create a ticket with their support services to guide them in the possible steps that are available.
If they could provide some remote assistance, it would help the end users to become self-sufficient and reduce the overall IT maintenance overhead.
View full review »Sometimes, the product hangs, and we have to restart the PC to make it work again. The interface must be made faster.
Windows 10 could be improved with faster upgrades. I know they already made changes to the next version, so maybe I have to upgrade first and then check whatever I think was missing. Apart from that, I haven't really had any issues.
As for additional features, maybe they could add some enhancements regarding better memory and battery management.
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reviewer1161831
Senior Analyst at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
There is room for improvement when it comes to the licensing.
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reviewer1665693
Product Manager at a consultancy with 201-500 employees
I generally have a better user experience using macOS than Windows.
I could actually see a lot of bugs and glitches. The performance of Windows is not that great.
They could optimize the OS for all devices.
If they could avoid the constant bombarding of the updates, which happens, that would be appreciated.
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reviewer1545876
Director of Application Engineering at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Setup and use between multiple monitors should be easier.
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reviewer1401510
Team leader technical support at a manufacturing company with 201-500 employees
The update cycle could use some improvement. There have been a lot of zero-day security issues that have mostly been met, but, the way Microsoft handled these could sometimes be less user disruptive.
It could be more secure, which is our main concern from a company's perspective.
The technical support could also be improved.
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reviewer1410804
SAP Architecture Manager at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
They don't use it with any third-party integration, it doesn't require this as it is used by the end-user.
While it is already a stable product, it can be improved.
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reviewer1411803
BigFix Technical Advisor at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
The interface could be more user-friendly.
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reviewer1686366
Head of Digital Consulting Team at a mining and metals company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Windows 10 consumes a lot of RAM, which is inconvenient. Your machine will be slower if your device is underpowered and you have to open five or six different apps. With Windows 10, this is a challenge.
If Windows is able to allocate RAM judiciously in those scenarios, you can continue to work with multiple windows open without experiencing any slowdown. This is one area that needs to be improved.
The RAM is a persistent issue with Windows 10. It slows the system down.
View full review »It would be better if it were more stable. Security could also be better.
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reviewer1593783
Senior Manager , Digital Transformation, Strategy & Transformation at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
In a new release, Microsoft could improve their Internet Explorer browser. It does not work as well for all sites as other browsers do, such as Google Chrome.
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reviewer1658931
Business Transformation Advisory at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
I'd like to see some sort of technical notification service reminder regarding hardware health. It's a feature that could help because I get quite a lot of Microsoft Office crashes. It asks whether you want to report them and then the notification disappears into thin air. I also think that task manager needs to be a little more graphical in nature, with more user analytics and I'd also like to know usages so I can run an operating system sometimes, multitasking, things like that. There are sometimes connectivity issues when there is any sort of power fluctuation with the adapter or from the main, and I think that area needs improvement. If there are power surges, or the adapter is not able to send the required power to the BIOS, there should be alerts. The other big one for me is integration with the hardware so that, for example, a user can know if there's a problem of dead pixels on the screen, some sort of predictive analytics on that front would be helpful.
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reviewer1372746
IT Manager – Information Technology Office at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees
There is nothing particularly unique or special about the solution.
For security reasons, they should continue to update certain aspects. It would make the solution safer in the long run.
The stability could always be strengthened.
I would prefer it if the solution was cheaper.
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reviewer1567812
Senior Manager, Information Technology at a university with 201-500 employees
So far, the solution offers everything we need and we are happy with its capabilities. There are no missing features.
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reviewer1305090
IT Manager at a renewables & environment company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The solution could improve by limiting the number of updates they have because while the update is happening there is a reduction in system performance. When attempting to work it is non-productive.
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RichardDuggan
Owner at Richard Duggan Pty Ltd
The security features need improvement. Security is important for everything that we do.
I would like to see more integration, as it is something that is important for us.
The performance can be improved; it is not very clear how you can increase the performance of Windows.
For the ordinary user, there should be some optimization of things that you are told to do from time to time. Most people don't know what to do.
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Ronel Roets
System Manager at Clover SA
I would like to see better pricing and faster support.
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reviewer1588287
Senior Security Operation Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
The solution could be faster and demonstrate better performance. It is a bit on the slow side.
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reviewer1032915
Technology Architect at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
The solution could improve hardware compatibility by being able to support the latest versions.
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reviewer1053252
Technical Presales Consultant/ Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
The solution can improve by making it more private and allowing users to know what operations are going on in the background code. More transparency is needed. For example, there is a project called Purism which is a Linux operating system that comes in a form of a phone or a laptop. Their focus is transparency, if I wanted to know what exactly is happening on my device, I can always go to the project documentation and take a look for my peace of mind.
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reviewer1411104
Manager, Datacenter Facilities at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
I'd like to see less restrictions on the use so it would be easier to use and manage.
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SathishKumar
Project Specialist at integra software
It could be more secure. We just want them to focus on security.
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ItishaYadav
Data Scientist at Instant systems Inc.
I'm more into artificial intelligence and the data science side. So I do not like Windows that much.
Setting up the environment variable, etc., needs improvement. This is true not only for Windows 10 but for Windows as a whole. It is currently a huge mess. Due to this, working with many libraries and packages becomes a difficult task. If they could find a better solution or a replacement for environment variables, I'd be extremely happy.
The only thing which concerns me is updates. It gets updated often. Sometimes, however, it automatically gets updated. That is an issue. It can happen when you do not want it to be done. It's possible it can start and your files are not saved. They may be open while your laptop enters sleep mode. Then, when you re-open the computer to continue work, it all of a sudden decides to update, destroying your work.
Once I accidentally did something that erased hidden folders on the C drive. It caused a lot of issues. Windows got corrupted on me. They should work to ensure that it isn't possible to accidentally delete these files or there should be a replica for them on the hard disc or something of that nature.
Google has functionality whereby if you have your email ID open on your phone, on your Android phone, that means you can sync everything on your Google drive. The same thing should be provided by Microsoft. I do not think Microsoft provides a dedicated account to every valid Windows holder. This should be done so that everything you have on your local system should be somehow in synchronization with the cloud. That way, if something happens, like your laptop is stolen, or your laptop is corrupted all of a sudden, your data is not misplaced. You have your data somewhere. A sync with the cloud service should be available.
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Fatih Altunbas
IT Solutions Architect at nds Netzwerksysteme GmbH
Windows explorer does not support two Windows systems. For example, in Mac OS, you can open tabs such as your windows browsers, and you can switch between devices or file systems. This can't be done in Windows Explorer. You have to open two separate windows and you can only do this when your monitor is large enough, or if you have more than one monitor.
The licensing should be more flexible.
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reviewer991800
Senior Manager - IT at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
It would be nice to see more robust security features in the next release.
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reviewer1125813
IT Support Team Leader at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Windows 10 could improve its security and they have not added anything extra to the solution from the previous versions.
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reviewer1680546
IT Engineer at a real estate/law firm with 201-500 employees
So far, the solution has been very good. I cannot recall coming across any missing features. There's nothing I would add at this time.
We'd always be happier if the enterprise version was a little bit lower in price.
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AnandHosamani
FOSS Coordinator at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees
If the system Windows 10 is operating on is not powerful it can become sluggish. They could improve by having two versions, a lightweight, and a higher performance version for more powerful computers.
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reviewer1526700
Cyber security manager at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
In the next release, I would like improvement regarding stability plus performance.
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reviewer1656168
Information Management Specialist at a government with 501-1,000 employees
The solution could offer better integration capabilities.
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ZelalemGedefie
Senior System Administrator at Debre Markos University
The interface could be more user-friendly.
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reviewer1536276
Sr Reporter at a media company with 201-500 employees
The solution could improve by adding more dashboards.
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reviewer1469322
HR Operations Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Nowadays, everything needs to be online, which I do not prefer. I prefer a few files, few applications to be available offline without connecting to the cloud.
I don't like that Skype has been discontinued and so is Internet Explorer. Those kinds of things, things you are really comfortable with and do not have much of a footprint on your computer, those are getting eliminated.
I'd like them to work on building tools that take up less space, as I tend to work offline.
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reviewer1411233
Security consultant at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
What I am expecting is that soon this will be their last product for me, however, if they go for the next Windows version, that they'll definitely change the kernel to Linux from the current one. Linux is more secure, and, although this solution has come a long way, it would be helpful if they could continue to develop the security aspects of the product.
There likely should be fewer releases going forward.
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reviewer1523223
IT at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees
I would prefer to see an OS that is lighter. We are currently in the process of reviewing the OS and it seems we can get away with using it without the need to pay a license fee. We are talking about a UNIX server OS that is very light and can be installed on any device, even a tension one, such as a PC. If this can be used to run things effectively then it means that the OS is really good. We're going to test it in the areas of security, functionality and adaptability to the environment. I need to be integrated to an active directory.
So these are some of the models and key features that we're going to test to see if we can install them in our environments, get them working with our active directory, and examine if our solution, our applications, are compatible with them. If the OS can perform these key functions then perhaps we can consider getting laptops and computers that do not require OS or that come with three BSD, for example, which would allow us to do installation.
I don't know if I would recommend Windows 10. The resource consumption can stand improvement. Much memory is used up and this quickly leads to the CPU running out.
The operating system should be optimized to a point where it manages RAM and re-computes computer resources much more effectively. When an application is running on Windows 10 it has a tendency to consume the entire RAM. Once optimized, very weak machines would be able to effectively run Windows 10. If, for example, one were running a graphics intensive application on Windows 10, the entire memory would tend to be consumed, the application would drag and the RAM would be insufficient to run it. A terminal check would demonstrate that even the functionality of Windows 10 would be excessively consuming the resources of the system.
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Sami Alomaisy
Manager at global trading
In an upcoming release, I would like the Windows files themselves to be able to be adjusted in a way they are not as easy to open or access. There are times when you can make a simple mistake in a Windows file and the whole operating system could become corrupted, the files should be more secure.
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Doan Viet Duc
Technical Manager at Sunivy
I'm not sure of any shortcomings with the solution, however, I myself am not very technical.
It would be ideal if the solution itself was less technical so a person like myself could more easily access it and understand it.
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reviewer1390797
Director Lean Infrastructure at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
I always compare products with the competition or what open-source products are doing. I would love for Microsoft to provide or participate in more open-source projects. They could do more expansion with less R&D and learn from what other developers do.
The Windows interface could be much more flexible from a perspective of the user's experience. If you compare other operating systems to the standard Windows desktop experience, the level of configuration for Windows is not so great. You should be able to do more to customize it from the way it looks to the way it performs.
What I also do not likes is the core of the Windows architecture. The registries and complexities that may help it to run fast also lead to issues, latent files, and other issues. Everyone who uses the product knows about having to reinstall Windows. This problem is something that still exists in the latest versions. The operating system works against itself and becomes slower after months of usage. The lag is more apparent if you install a lot of different applications. Eventually, this causes more serious issues and you need to reinstall the operating system. This is not something that you ever have to do on a Linux operating system. Linux is much more flexible. It is much cleaner and it is much easier to configure to your needs.
One other issue I have with Microsoft — more than just the Windows operating system — is the lack of compatibility of their productivity tools suite. Nowadays, most people cannot live without their Office applications. Microsoft is the leader in this. Their Office products are not supported on Linux. In my opinion, the real reason people are still using Windows is not that it is a great operating system, it is because of the integrated productivity tools and familiarity.
For Windows, the core of the operating system needs improvement from the perspective of flexibility and stability.
As far as additional features, it is hard to really pinpoint something that Windows is missing. I think from a feature perspective and as a mature product, they are already pretty feature-heavy. They essentially have everything that a person could need and I do believe that Microsoft is doing a great job from the perspective of continually providing new features.
I would prefer that they further developed the possibility of running other operating system applications. I like the features we got from Windows 10 to help incorporate the use of the Linux system. But I would love it if they made the effort to further expand on that.
So the ability to better integrate with and run other operating systems would be a nice addition.
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Gaurav-Jain
Consultant (Architect) at MasterCard Incorporated
Windows needs improvements made with respect to security because it is still vulnerable. Often, there are vulnerabilities found that they are releasing patches for. For example, Windows servers are still not very difficult to hack. When I was working with their products several years ago, it was really easy to break the Windows Server password.
There are some features such as wireless display and remote desktop connections that are not available in the Home Edition, but it would be really helpful for home users to have access to these.
I would like to see some kind of tool that can be used to plug in and connect to Azure technologies.
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reviewer1386360
Information Security Consultant at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
The patch deployment in corporate enterprises could be improved in a way to specify when the system will update and to prevent users from interacting with this system during the actual updates. If you have a system running in a production facility, the user is only able to access a dedicated application when you then update the system, the application has to be stopped. When this happens, the system is open for manipulation. Microsoft should invest more in a way to protect users from interacting with this system during the update process.
It's a very edge case. It's really important for us. I know some other production facilities. There are some third party solutions in place which tried to tackle this issue, but it would be better if Microsoft directly addressed it on their own.
The solution should offer a bit of an easier integration with authentication methods, like FIDO or FIDO2 authentication with the USB-C. They should try to simplify the process of authenticating the user. Nobody wants to remember thousands of passwords.
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YaserAltwailey
Network Engineer at Saudi Customs
One of my colleagues said Microsoft doesn't have a good record for the license. If the license gets lost, there isn't a dashboard where I can register my license and use it via the dashboard. We are looking for a dashboard like that.
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reviewer1396728
Technology Consultant at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
We had some issues deploying Windows 10 for our clients.
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ParveshDhurmea
Assistant Engineer at Harel Mallac Technologies Ltd
Major update, that poses an issue should be able to be rolled back.
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reviewer1704000
Head of Information technologies systems department at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees
The interface could be more user-friendly.
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reviewer1711344
Interim IT Manager at a wholesaler/distributor with 1,001-5,000 employees
Windows 10 could improve the security of the solution.
View full review »Windows 10 needs to be a little bit more secure. We're getting patches and updates from time to time.
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reviewer1681731
Innovation and strategy Development-OCP Solutions at a mining and metals company with 10,001+ employees
There are times I have slow performance on my laptop using Windows 10 but I am not sure if it is the laptop hardware or the solution.
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reviewer1632234
Product Manager at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
Windows 10 could improve by being more user-friendly and provide a screen mirroring feature for the ability to share the screen with mobile devices without having to purchase a third-party application. With Mac OS it is able to be done right away.
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reviewer945318
Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
The apps view that I get on my screen is not much useful for me. If I have to search for anything, I go to the Search bar and type there.
They can maybe include integration with some third-party products.
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Ben Ndunda
IT Support at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
Windows 10 could be improved by making the price cheaper.
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reviewer937470
Network Engineer at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
They could continue to improve user-friendliness.
The solution would benefit from more dashboards.
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reviewer1028202
Functional Consultant at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
In general, the price could always be cheaper.
View full review »There is a lot of preloaded information on Windows 10, that impacts the memory position.
The security should improve because there are a lot of packets that have to be delivered, and that will take time to install.
View full review »The interface could be more user-friendly.
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BobenGeorge
Sr.Customer Engineer- Projects at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
The security should be increased. More people are using Windows 10, which makes it more vulnerable. With more people using it makes you prone to attacks. It has to be updated frequently, along with the market trends.
Frequent updates can be frustrating.
The technical support should be more feasible, and more viable. Their work strategy needs to be changed.
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reviewer1532124
IT Program Manager at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees
In terms of what could be improved, it could have more integration and a better pricing plan. Additionally, it could be more secure and have more dashboards.
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reviewer1598412
Management Executive at a security firm with 11-50 employees
The whole point of Microsoft is it's a phenomenal stack of products. However, Microsoft must realize that it's operating in Africa. We cannot pay US dollars. For the cost of Microsoft Windows 10, it's just not affordable for the majority of the population in South Africa. Who's going to spend that amount of money when people are barely affording to live? It's costly.
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reviewer1558248
Global Head - Datacenters, Cloud and IT Core Services at a logistics company with 10,001+ employees
Since I purchased this solution, the upgrades have stopped. They need to do something better when it comes to the upgrades.
They need better upgrading. It is not updating for me at all.
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reviewer1139517
Divisional Manager - Digital at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees
As an open source application, the solution should be more accomodative.
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reviewer977127
Data Scientist at a university with 501-1,000 employees
It may be due to the features and apps that I use, but sometimes, I find my laptop slows down. Still, it's not a big problem with the OS. Other than that, I can't think of anything else that needs to be improved.
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AshutoshGupt
Principal Consultant, Presales at Self-employed
If someone is coming from a previous Windows experience, it could be complex. The solution could be more simplistic from a user perspective. When operating the solution sometimes you receive many different types of options, there is a chatbot build in, and some automatic assistance that was not expected.
There are excessive features in this version and the functionality they are based on needs improvement. The traditional way of using a Windows platform has been somehow lost. It will take a little time to get used to the Windows 10 experience.
Some features are not available in the basic version of the software that can be useful.
In the future, the solution should have a more simplified virtual assistant. I think they might be already planning to do this. There should be more features coming in the solution pre-installed. For example, when you purchase Windows 10, you should have a basic version of Microsoft Office installed on it. It should not be priced separately, more inclusion of features should be there.
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reviewer1397244
Manager-IT at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The price is always high. Whenever I go out to buy a computer and want to buy a Windows license for it, it makes up a quarter of the total cost. It sometimes helps if it's bundled with the machine, but it's still expensive.
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NorthlakeRG
Managing Partner / Independent Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Lots of updates, but not lots of production.
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reviewer930159
Senior Executive at a leisure / travel company with 201-500 employees
They should have something like a dashboard where users can tune the performance. After using Windows 10 for a while, the operating system starts to slow down. It does not operate like it did when you first installed it. So, in the long run, I don't know what the cache is holding and how it's slowing down the operating system's performance. The same goes for the Microsoft Office applications.
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reviewer929298
Deputy Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
In contrast to Windows 11, the 10 version could have improved functionality.
The solution derails the battery too quickly, meaning the performance could be better.
The space utilization is not sufficient and there are too many notifications for the user.
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Dimitris Iracleous
Lead Technical Instructor at codehub
We have a lot of different hardware that has to communicate, and sometimes, the Windows drivers get overloaded.
So, the performance could be better.
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reviewer1632729
QA Test Lead at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees
I notice a lot of latency in Windows 10. Sometimes it slows down things. If I use a virtualized environment and if I run Windows 10, it's definitely slow, even on my personal computer, if it is not SSD. The performance could be much better.
Built into the solution is Windows Defender, which is in all the recent versions of the Windows operating system, however, we still end up buying an extra antivirus product in the market to ensure we are secure. Windows Defender should be enhanced and compete with the market with other antivirus products so that it comes as part of the operating system and actually offers very good protection.
Native apps such as, for example, Windows Notepad, which is a basic feature provided by Windows over the last 24 years, have had no enhancement at all. If you try to play around with some data or put it in a Notepad note, it still is quite difficult to use. You need to pay for Notepad++ or some TextPad, or some other application tool to get some actual usability.
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reviewer1372578
Deputy Manager IT at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Its cost is very high and should be reduced.
It would be helpful if Windows had its own antivirus to protect the OS. They should provide an antivirus with it.
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reviewer1085256
Software Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
This solution is stable, but it could be better. The stability could be improved.
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reviewer1709688
Senior Advisor at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees
Windows reboot too often, it is a nightmare. I hate it.
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Chidananda M
Chief Executive Officer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The product could be more scalable.
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reviewer1682937
Head of IT Section at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
I think the notification bar could be modified, it's a little confusing in its current state. We receive notifications but it's not user friendly.
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reviewer1666578
Senior Database Administrator at a consumer goods company with 201-500 employees
In terms of what could be improved, I would say that the most critical thing is security, including the ransomware.
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Andre Nel
Owner at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
I've heard that they have plans to take away the control panel, which may be a mistake unless they can improve the level of settings.
The pricing could be more competitive compared to other products of the same nature.
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sharepoi927843
Senior Manager at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees
The performance needs improvement. Updates could be improved also.
The updates could be rolled out every quarter. We have experienced crashes with some of the updates.
I would also like to see more performance-oriented updates for better effectiveness. That would be very helpful.
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reviewer1595577
Graduate Trainee at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
The solution could always be more secure, even though I am quite happy with its level of security at the moment.
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reviewer1581627
Managing Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
As far as improvement is concerned, nothing particularly comes to mind. It generally works quite well.
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reviewer1579953
Manager at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
The overall performance could be improved — it loads slowly at times.
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reviewer1366281
Information Technology Supervisor at a renewables & environment company with 501-1,000 employees
The updates could be improved. Sometimes when we update, there are instances where it fails or crashes. I wish they would sort that out. When the update is downloaded, maybe we could have a method of checking that the downloaded update from Windows is alright so it doesn't damage our computers before restarting it.
For me, that's the most troubling part — crashing after we've updated it. I've experienced that many times. There are instances where it has actually corrupted the Windows OS, then we have to reformat it.
Every time I have to reformat and install Windows, I have to remove so many pre-installed games and other unnecessary junk. I don't like that. It's just a bother having to remove them again and again and again.
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ManojKumar4
Regional Operations Manager at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
I am not so happy with the performance. All else is good, but the performance could be better.
The user interface could be more interesting, more user-friendly.
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reviewer1678515
swEngineer at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees
The solution could improve by having better security.
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reviewer594315
Assistant IT Manager at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It would be better if it were more stable. It will also help if Microsoft improves the user interface in the next release.
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reviewer1388565
Systems and networks engineer at a government with self employed
It could be more stable.
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reviewer1539471
Senior Vice President at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees
The solution can improve security.
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reviewer1674072
General Manager at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
The solution could improve by making the update process faster.
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reviewer372459
Sr. Manager - IT Systems at a transportation company with 501-1,000 employees
Increasing the security would be beneficial.
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reviewer1663731
Process Manager at a marketing services firm with 501-1,000 employees
It could have faster updates.
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reviewer1407819
Executive Director - Product & Solution at a cloud provider with 11-50 employees
The solution could improve by reducing the number of updates that are required to stay secure. There are times when I am doing work on my computer and I get interrupted.
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reviewer1644681
Founder, Director at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
Although the solution has been pretty nice to use, I have encountered certain bugs in the updates. Other than that, things have been pretty good, although I do prefer Mac over Windows nowadays, having a couple years' experience with it in the past. I feel it to be a better operating system when compared with Windows.
While I consider Windows to be one of the most user-friendly operating systems and a market leader, the bugs which have plagued it's updates all along are problematic. This is why I choose to deduct a point from its rating.
An example of a bug I encountered one or two months back involved the malfunctioning of certain keys on the laptop. When I removed the update, things reverted to normal. This can be a problem when one of the keys is part of your password. It necessitates use of the virtual keyboard, which is open to others. These are issues Microsoft should be addressing and should resolve prior to releasing the patch.
QA needs to be improved.
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reviewer1630506
IT Project Manager, Senior Java Developer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Although security was improved greatly from Windows 7, there are still many artifacts remaining from it and from Windows XP. There is still the control panel. Also, migration wasn't done to the new interface.
As such, the solution could be more secure and user-friendly.
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reviewer1607976
Executive Director at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
It would be better if they brought back the easy way to create multiple sessions on Windows 10. It's very complicated for our customers, and most of the time they need to call us to do it because they know that we are in an office environment and most of the time the competence is not for only one person.
To optimize the resources, they need to have several sessions on the same desktop or the same workstation. This makes it easier to manage and maintain. My recommendation is to bring back the easy way and have several sessions on the same operating system. The price could be better as well.
MH
mehrab hussain
Junior Software Engineer at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
It should be more secure and should have an antivirus.
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reviewer1609992
Computer Technician at a educational organization with 501-1,000 employees
It would be valuable for Windows to have an MDM feature to deploy applications remotely to it natively, such as the Jamf solution for Apple.
JB
reviewer1599933
Partner at a non-profit with 1-10 employees
There should be better support for SQL servers. We haven't started using SQL yet, but when we do, we'll need proper support.
Also, it could benefit from more integration.
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Devanand PR
IT Support Executive at a healthcare company with 51-200 employees
There is some room for improvement in the security of the solution.
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Venkateswarlu Paturu
Service Delivery Manager / Architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
One of the areas that need some clarity, is when trying to secure a specific folder between the file system with a password. I am not sure if it is possible.
As a user, I should have a facility that I can secure an entire folder with a password. This is a feature that I would like to be added to the Windows System.
Also, It could be more secure.
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reviewer1687599
Principal Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The cost of Windows 10 is a bit high. They should work to make it lower.
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reviewer1599675
Project Manager at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
I cannot recall the solution having any missing features. We've been happy with its abilities so far. Nothing strikes me as lacking in terms of how it operates.
The stability could be a bit stronger - if they were going to work on any specific aspect.
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reviewer1136874
System Integration Engineer at a computer software company with 1-10 employees
I would like to see less space taken by the installation.
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Sahir K
Sr Principal Infrastructure Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
There are a lot of patches that are released frequently that always ask for a reboot. This causes errors and unpredictable actions on the computer. Sometimes it will get hot and reboot and all those kind of patches which will happen after an installation. That is something that needs improvement. It always creates issues when we're in production.
It doesn't happen all the time. The pandemic has made it hard to go into the office to get the problem rectified.
We don't always want to reboot. Users aren't interested to keep on rebooting a laptop. So their laptop can get infected every month which creates problems. And then it's hard to get to the office to get the problems fixed.
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OnyaToochukwu
CEO/Programmer at Tech Elight
The frequent update of the Operating system is bad because, during each update, most of the programs or applications do not function well. Updates should be in intervals of every three to four months, and they should have the user's choice and interests in mind before any update.
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Armand GADA-YAO
Software Directeur BU at AITEK
I can't recall any aspect that I would consider improving.
When it comes to Windows 11 specifically, you really have to have a good PC. You need to have a very good graphic card. Unfortunately, many PCs lack a good graphic card and therefore can't support it.
I've had some issues with a configuration that's given me trouble.
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reviewer1624278
Investment Professional at a venture capital & private equity firm with 11-50 employees
The stability could improve and it could be more secure.
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reviewer1572795
IT Production Engineer at a consultancy with 201-500 employees
While we have patches on a monthly basis, the solution could be more secure. Overall, the solution is good for me.
MF
reviewer1489566
Manager Tech. & Support (Information Technology) at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The solution could improve by being more secure and having a better user interface.
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reviewer812187
Product Technical Manager at a tech company with 1-10 employees
I think that the user interface is a little bit complicated and can be more user-friendly.
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Ather Khan
Head Of Risk Management at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees
The speed and performance should be improved.
Easier integration with other platforms would be an improvement.
It should include a low-code or no-code solution for beginners that they can use to write applications.
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reviewer1396353
Embedded Engineer at a manufacturing company with 11-50 employees
One of the problems with Windows 10 is that it hangs when you open multiple programs. For example, if you are running 10 to 15 applications then the performance will slow down to something similar to Windows 7. Often, I will have Microsoft Office open, as well as my development tools, and once I have been using them for perhaps 20 minutes, everything slows down. Switching between applications at that point can take two or three minutes.
I have been having some trouble with the .NET framework and it took me a full day to install it. The problem seems to be that every time it connects to Microsoft online, it is different. After several attempts, I was finally able to succeed.
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reviewer1724514
Principal Consultant at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
The Windows driver can be cranky sometimes. Sometimes the mouse won't work or the driver software gets cranky and stops working, so I have to reboot. This is the only annoying problem I've had with Windows. The driver's performance could be improved.
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reviewer948819
Systems and Networks Engineer at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The security and the updates could use improvements, as well as scalability.
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Shyami Lakshika
Associate Engineer - Network & Security at Connex Information Technologies
It could be more secure. I would like to see more security in the next release.
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reviewer719127
System Administrator at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
I would like to see the licensing fees reduced.
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reviewer1637511
Problem and Technical Application Management for KNAB at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
There are always some small things here and there that could be better, however, for the most part, I have been happy with its capabilities and cannot recall coming across missing features.
I want a more stable version of the Linux interface that you can use within Windows 10. Sometimes the connections are broken or it doesn't work after a while. When that happens, I have to restart my laptop and so on. It would be ideal if it was simply more stable so that these issues didn't occur.
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reviewer1606152
SAP Director at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
The performance isn't perfect. It does not provide a good value for the money you spend on it.
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reviewer1571142
Network Consultant at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Windows 10 could improve the performance of the interface, it was faster in Windows 8.
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reviewer907905
Founder at a marketing services firm with 11-50 employees
Support could be better.
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Atefeh Mohib
Business Analyst at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I have some challenges with the search box. It's a good tool, but sometimes there are some problems. For example, I can't find an application that I installed earlier.
IB
reviewer1390371
Senior System Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The solution could be improved by simultaneously adding more features and also giving the user more ability to decrease some features to help keep the speed of the device decent.
Users should be able to access the system remotely.
The solution should be more responsive and faster.
It would be helpful if the solution was able to integrate better with other platforms, like Android or Apple.
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reviewer1313088
Architect at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
If you need servers to be deployed in a production environment then you definitely want to look at a different operating system. From an end-user point of view, I don't see in issues in using Windows.
Improvements should be made to security, making it more resistant to hacking and malware.
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reviewer934317
Regional technical manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The solution could be more secure.
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reviewer1515003
IT Security Architect at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees
The pricing could always be improved.
We would like the solution to continue to improve its security.
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reviewer1706646
Financial Controller at a media company with 201-500 employees
Overall, I haven't had issues and cannot recall coming across missing features.
The licensing could always be less expensive.
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reviewer1049622
Technical Lead at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
The solution is a little expensive, they could reduce the cost.
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reviewer1516767
Engineer at a university with 201-500 employees
Microsoft could improve the solution by adding enhanced translation and speaking recognition.
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reviewer1593132
Co-Founder at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
The solution could improve by being more user-friendly and limiting the security patches to once every quarter instead of weekly.
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reviewer1070739
Lead Enterprise Architect at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees
They should introduce some special tools for system administrators. I am currently looking at how to calculate the storage. It should have additional tools for monitoring for system administrators. A lot of such monitoring and security tools are available for free in other open-source operating systems, such as CentOS.
It should have the backup-and-restore functionality, which is integrated with any external device, such as a USB device. Windows 10 should also be free. They should only charge for Professional Windows 10, but the basic OS should be free.
Microsoft should support the Red Hat operating system. When I install Red Hat, it doesn't support NTFS. It needs some additional plug-ins.
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reviewer1390266
General manager at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
Right now, the solution is quite good and works quite well for us. I don't know if there are features that need improvement.
Occasionally configurations can be a bit tricky.
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reviewer930051
Sales Specialist at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
Security-wise, Windows 10 should be more stable.
NS
reviewer1696335
Storage Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
I prefer Linux over Windows 10 because the command prompt is better in Linux.
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reviewer1570308
Programing Manager Officer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The solution could improve in security, we use a third-party antivirus solution to keep it secure.
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reviewer1395591
Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Windows 10 could be a little faster.
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Abdallah Barahmeh
Technical Consultant at Bluetech
They have a lot of updates, and most of these updates don't have a major feature. We do an update, and we usually don't see any new features from the end-user perspective, which is quite unlike phone updates, where after the update, we usually see something really new. We should be required to update Windows 10 only for major changes. The updates also take a lot of time. When the updates are going on, the PC becomes a bit slow.
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reviewer1396629
Sap Advanced Business Application Programming Developer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The connection with the Apple product could be better.
The integration could be improved.
The internet page is a bit difficult, the browser is not the best on the market, and it's not the fastest.
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reviewer1640274
Network Security Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I would like Windows 10 to be more like MacOS in terms of integration, speed, and stability.
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reviewer1285899
Information Security Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Windows 10 is quite expensive, they could reduce the cost.
AF
Alberto Ferretti
Founder - CEO at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
I think the product could be improved technically.
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reviewer1419987
Senior Technical Specialist at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
There are a lot of frequent updates. They can reduce the number of updates and combine them into one monthly update.
It also uses a lot of RAM and CPU, which should be fixed.
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reviewer1460898
Lead Consultant at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
It would be nice if the solution were more lightweight, such as is the case with Windows XP. The installation consumes a lot of space and the response time is not as fast as it should be.
Moreover, the solution could have better performance.
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