Microsoft is planning an event on January next year to fully unveil the "consumer features" of Windows 10, reports The Verge.
The tech giant will be present for the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada during the early days of January, but inside sources report that Microsoft is setting up a bigger event for their Windows 10 unveiling alone.
Microsoft has already released some information about the features of its newest operating system, as detailed in this Engadget article, but more features are expected to be uncovered during the press event, as well as the company's plans for their Windows phones and tablets, and for the Xbox One gaming console.
Some of the Windows 10 features already made known are the "Live Tiles" moved to the Start Menu (both the Live Tiles and the Start menu can be resized), a new taskbar with "task view" functionality, a command prompt that can read keyboard shortcuts, and responsive Mail and Calendar apps that adjust their views as the user resizes their windows, according to PC World.
Microsoft has rolled out an early "Technical Preview" last October, which was geared towards those interested in trying out the very new features of the pre-release version and able to give technical feedback about its performance to Microsoft engineers. The technical preview is available via Microsoft's "Windows Insider Program".
"Windows 10 will run across an incredibly broad set of devices - from the Internet of Things, to servers in enterprise datacenters worldwide. Some of these devices have 4 inch screens - some have 80 inch screens - and some don't have screens at all," writes Terry Myerson, Microsoft's Executive VP of Operating Systems.
"Some of these devices you hold in your hand, others are ten feet away. Some of these devices you primarily use touch/pen, others mouse/keyboard, others controller/gesture - and some devices can switch between input types," Myerson added.
Consumers who are looking forward to getting the new OP in January will be disappointed, however. "Windows 10 is said to be launching sometime in "mid 2015," so don't expect the software to become available for the general public at said January event," writes Darrell Etherington of TechCrunch.
