Microsoft's Windows 10 Creators Update is an OS done right

With 400 million machines now running Windows 10, it's proving to be an ascendant operating system, and the disastrous Windows 8 is barely a spec in Microsoft's rear-view mirror. Even though Windows 10 only has 19 percent of the desktop OS market, according to Net Market Share, and Windows 7 still has almost 50 percent, the momentum is clear. The Windows users who held onto Windows 95 for years, and that still cling to Windows 7 like a lifeboat in rough operating system seas, are slowly but surely migrating to what very well may be the best Windows ever. SEE ALSO: Microsoft'Windows 10 Cloud' could challenge Google's Chrome OS Those who feared the Start Button-less Windows 8 are embracing the software-as-service model of Windows 10 (and, of course, breathing a sigh of relief over the return of the Start menu). It doesn't hurt Windows 10 that Microsoft has, in recent years, paired it with some remarkable home-grown hardware: Surface Pro 4, Surface Book and the new Surface Studio.