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hey everyone welcome to the inside scoop I'm cnet's Cara tsuboi joined by staff writer Nick statt on Wednesday January 21st Nick myself and a few others from the cnet team are traveling to redmond washington to microsoft's campus to cover the big launch of windows 10 Nick what do we know about this event so far so it's going to be called Windows 10 the next chapter Microsoft named the operating system or revealed the name back in September and there's a big surprise because they jumped over nine that went right from eight to ten okay now it's the first opportunity to show why that's such a big change and why it deserved that that name jump so they're going to be showing some more sharing some more details about what it's going to look like I'm phones on tablets and how it's going to all work together and this is a big press event I mean it's expected to be a few hours long a big deal for Microsoft yes it's a big deal this is gonna be the really long one where they really dive deep it's gonna expect it to be maybe over two hours long sajid Mandela will will be in attendance were unclear it's unclear if he's going to be on stage speaking will definitely be there okay and what do we know about the product itself you mentioned that it's for for mobile for tablets and phones what else right the big change with Windows 10 is that it's going to be the only operating system for Windows it's going to be universal so it's going to work on your desktop it's an work on your laptop on your phone on your tablet there's going to be no windows phone anymore as we know it it's going to be all Windows 10 it's supposed to work using what windows are Microsoft calls continuum across all devices just depending on what topic the screen is weather is a master there's a keyboard it's supposed to automatically move just seamless seamless yeah Microsoft hopes at least ok any other features that we know of thus far too early to tell it's kind of early to tell too early to tell but we do know besides continuum that Microsoft is kind of bringing it back to basics they're going away from the heavy touch dependency they had in Windows 8 that turned off a lot of users they're trying to make it a look a little bit more like Windows 7 but still pushing it forward I'm still trying to incorporate touch because they can't ignore it and it's now on their surface tablets and obviously on phones so they're going to work really hard on trying to make sure this is a this makes sense to people whether they're using their fingers or whether using a mouse and keyboard and what do we know about the release day it in the price point it's expected to release later this year we don't know when but developers have been using it since late last year okay in terms of pricing they are going to charge for it we think we don't expect Microsoft to switch to a free model like Apple has on last few years though after this release after Windows 10 we're unsure if Microsoft might go free they could go free and that would be a big change for them what is microsoft need to do to ensure that this release is a success and can actually you know get the attention of the broad public Microsoft's big job is to just not turn people off and to assure them that they can be trusted to create something good they are going to do a lot of work trying to simplify things they're going from a number of different operating systems very confusing product specs all into one universal thing if they can pull that off I think they'll really turn it around for windows all right thank you Nick you can tune in to cnet's coverage on january 21st to follow what is new with Windows 10 Nick statt Kara Tsuboi thank you so much for watching see nuts inside scoop