
“Yesterday, they were driving a first-gen Prius, and when they got Windows 10 they didn’t have to learn to drive something new, but it was as if we got them a Tesla,” Myerson said. It wants you to think of Windows 10 as a Tesla. Belfiore called it a “niche, geeky feature” but said he wanted to show the diverse range of users the OS is trying to support. Microsoft showed how it now supports shortcuts like CTRL+C and CTRL+V so you can paste in a directory listing from another app, for instance. You’re kidding, right? Well, actually there is. The start menu is customizable, so you can resize the tiles and move them around, and make the start menu tall and thin or long and flat.
