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    Windows 10X leaks: Hands-on with Microsoft’s new, simplified OSs

    Mar 02, 2021 3 minutes
    BY MARK HACHMAN

    Microsoft’s Windows 10X has leaked, and it’s boring.

    Well, it’s designed to be boring. Simple, really—uncomplicated, straightforward, without the fuss and clutter of “traditional” Windows. We wrote last year that Windows 10X now appears to be the new Windows 10 S (Windows 10 in S Mode [go.pcworld.com/n10s]); after spending some hands-on time with the leaked build, we believe those impressions have been confirmed.

    We’d like to say that Windows 10X has been graphically overhauled with a variety of new features. However, the fact—when Microsoft was visualizing Windows 10X as the future of dual-screen devices—little has changed. (.) Well, there’s been one major tweak, of course: .

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