Windows 10 Change lessons

Like 75 million of others, I have upgraded to Windows 10.  It has received almost hysterical praise from the tech press.  It seemed that everyone loved to hate Windows 8, so much so Microsoft skipped Windows 9 in order to distance themselves from it. I find this all slightly strange.  Granted their idea of having a single system across all their platforms, that wasn’t a single platform, or ignoring the fact that the vast majority of their installed user-base didn’t use touch screens was a mistake.  However, it was simple to bring back the much needed and loved Start button (it took less  that 5 minutes) and you were left with a stable, usable platform.  Still, the press love to bring down the mighty and everyone knows that Microsoft are bad and Apple is cool.  No one mentions the awful software that Apple releases for iTunes.  Most of the people I know who were persuaded by the svelte, sexy lines of the Mac computers found the transition painful and of limited value. 

Still the good news is that Windows 10 is good… so that is alright.  What interests me is the fact that we label change as ‘good’ or ‘bad’ and we then respond to the label.  The truth is that change is always uncomfortable, even if it brings good things.  It always requires some effort, some learning and some abandoning of the familiar. To have any other expectations is at best naive and worst a lie.  Getting married is usually a much anticipated and welcome change, but it certainly requires work and adjustments in order to work. 

So next time a change is coming your way, it helps if you get your expectations right; there will be some pain, but if it is the right change, you will move forward… If not I guess, like Edison, you’ve learnt one more way not to do it!

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