Windows 10 isn't far off now, yet there are many users who still haven't moved on from Windows 7 to the current version, Windows 8.1, due to a plethora of different reasons. Microsoft took a different approach when it designed Windows 8 compared to all of the firm's previous operating systems. Instead of designing for a desktop or laptop – predominantly controlled by a mouse – Windows 8 was designed for a touchscreen, creating big 'tappable' tiles in place of small, fiddly buttons.