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Windows 10 gains a personal assistant in Cortana. What originally launched on Windows Phone has been brought to the PC, and it can now work across all of your Windows devices. One of the key benefits of Windows 10 over Windows 8 is that features like Cortana are easily discoverable. Cortana now lives in a search box right beside the start button, and it can keep track of your travel plans, set up reminders, and perform searches for you. Microsoft is also adding a new browser to Windows 10, with Microsoft Edge. Although based on Internet Explorer under the hood, huge chunks of code have been taken out to improve security, and the rendering and scripting engines have been optimized to make Edge one of the fastest browsers around. It adds support for new features like being able to markup web pages and share them, and Cortana is built in to provide contextual search results right in the page. It is a big step up from Internet Explorer in standards compliance, and while it’s not quite finished yet, Microsoft has promised to update it often through the Windows Store.
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The built in Xbox app will support Game DVR, allowing you to record game sessions, edit them, and share them, all within the Xbox app. One of the coolest features coming is game streaming from an Xbox One to any Windows 10 PC, allowing you to use any PC or tablet as the display for the Xbox, as long as it is on the LAN.
Other links:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/microsoft/windows/11767674/Windows-10-launch-Microsoft-releases-new-operating-system.html
http://arstechnica.co.uk/information-technology/2015/07/windows-10-released-heres-how-to-download-it/
Update (JR) - Stories about the bugs are now coming in: here and here.
(Score: 5, Informative) by MrGuy on Wednesday July 29 2015, @11:55AM
I would say the key benefit of Windows 10 over Windows 8 is not being utterly terrible, but to each their own, I guess.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 29 2015, @12:06PM
Don't worry, let me allay your fears brother.
This is microsoft!
Of COURSE it will be terrible :)
This is a company that spies on it's users for a kidnapping torturing warlord spy government (and they do it happily) and attempted to break standards and control one of the greatest human achievements (the internet).
The only reason we use their stuff anymore is stockholm syndrome.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday July 29 2015, @12:33PM
Well, stop using their stuff. There are plenty of other options now, even if you're only talking about FOSS. I've been on linux exclusively now for about 17 years, and dealing with Windows with its vulnerabilities and virii is like a distantly remembered nightmare I am quite happy to have left behind. I am also happy to have left behind the constant drumbeat of "Pay! PAY!! PAYPAYPAY!!!" of closed source software. Now I open some apt-based tool and have instant availability to thousands of excellent programs with no DRM BS; every time I get something new in 30 seconds and can get on with my work, my soul says "Ahhhhhh, that's the stuff."
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 29 2015, @01:13PM
Actually, I use linux REALLY heavily.
My website is at https://darrencaldwellwebdesign.ca [darrencaldwellwebdesign.ca] and it's a linux box, I run virtual linux boxes as well for various things.
Linux is hyper dominant when it comes to web servers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 29 2015, @03:55PM
Is that site running in a VM because it is frickin slow...
Also... dude, my eyes... the fuck did you do to my eyes?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 30 2015, @02:51AM
that website is fucking painful
it even makes myspace look slick
(Score: 1) by Post-Nihilist on Friday July 31 2015, @03:53AM
You might want to review your php example. Please read https://www.owasp.org/index.php/PHP_Security_Cheat_Sheet [owasp.org] as your unescaped sql and unhashed and unsalted passwords are a disaster waiting to happen.... Also have a look at https://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_Node_js_Goat_Project#tab=Main [owasp.org] and study that codename, I am sure you will learn a thing or ten
Be like us, be different, be a nihilist!!!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 30 2015, @05:48AM
Our shitty, perpetually-crashing front desk software (I work at a motel) runs on .Net 3.5 and won't run on Mono (I've tried). We were warned for some time not to upgrade to win7 from XP because the software wouldn't work. The warning is up again now. Hint: this is a company that's been cracked for credit cards before, and they think storing everything "in the cloud" will magically fix everything while keeping the front end that's probably go so many security holes (not even taking into account in only runs on winshit and .net) running. In fact, I'm surprised a major breach still hasn't happened yet (more likely it's happened already, but hasn't been discovered or announced).
As for me personally, I've been 90% GNU/Linux and 10% *BSD for almost 2 decades now. My phones run Android, so that partially counts, but until Sailfish or Jolla get out more, it'll be hard to get off of it. I've tried to get others to go FOSS, and (big surprise) failed miserably. I no longer try.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 29 2015, @12:10PM
"Windows 10 now with more creepy search and privacy settings that you'll have to opt-out of.
Oh and for shits and giggles we'd thought we'd release Windows 10 with an unfinished browser that we've given a name that the cool kids will love...'Edge'
Finally, we've made sure the 'Home' edition users will have a new reason to piss off their family 'IT Guy' as they''l now have to rollback the entire box to undo faulty automatic updates which were applied without anyone's foreknowledge."
"Windows 10, because 10 > 8."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 29 2015, @04:16PM
Depends on how you sort them. Lexicographically, 10 8. ;-)
(Actually, at least some version of the game Konquest sorts numbers lexicographically in the fleet overview.)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 29 2015, @04:36PM
Err ... that should have been 10 < 8.
(Score: 2) by TheB on Thursday July 30 2015, @04:51PM
You can't even opt out of it all.
From the "Telemetry & Error Reporting" section of the privacy statement. After the parts where they describe the default collection of app use/hardware id#/network usage...
"Some diagnostic data is vital to the operation of Windows and cannot be turned off"
It doesn't say what can't be turned off, or that they send it to their servers, but it is part of the privacy statement, and implies that they do.
People keep saying that all this keylogging and other datamining was only for the 'free' Insider version, but it is still in the privacy statement for the release version.
Most users will have no idea how to disable the spying. Many have already given up caring about their privacy.
Hopefully Fallout 4 will run on Linux.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Hairyfeet on Wednesday July 29 2015, @07:54PM
Its still got some serious suckage, which is why I'm advising customers to avoid it for a few more months to see what MSFT does about it. For the most glaring example the fucked all to hell Windows 8/ Windows 7 mashup that is "settings" and "control panel". I have yet to find a way to simply remove or bypass the settings menu and one attempt at using it will tell you its more of the "supergigantic smartphone" crap like Windows 8, BADLY dumbed down and without access to the majority of control panel items, its nothing but frustration and fail. Also too many Win 10 features seem to revolve around "just give us all your data, trust us" from OneDrive to Cortana it seems like none of the new whiz bang features can be used without signing everything over to MSFT.
So until they show us a true "killer app" I'm advising waiting, last I checked if you upgrade you only get 30 days to change your mind and after that your Windows 7 key is toast and with Win 7 supported until 2020? I'm just not seeing anything too impressive ATM.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Reziac on Thursday July 30 2015, @02:14AM
I've concluded Win10's real reason for existence is to get everyone used to spending a dollar here and a dollar there at the Windows Store, where you're supposed to buy fixes for all the stuff that's been broken or removed. Microsoft has been looking for a way to monetize the consumer-level desktop since forever (consumer Windows has never been much of a profit center; that's always been bulk contracts) and smartphones have shown them the true path.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 30 2015, @02:54AM
calling Microsoft "MSFT" is about as gay as someone on the other side of the fence calling it "M$"
even if you just lose the FT so that you just type MS, it would go a long way towards making you seem less like a Microsoft toolbag
(Score: 2) by No Respect on Thursday July 30 2015, @12:38AM
Features like Cortana are not important to me so whether or not they're "easily discoverable" is of no appreciable benefit whatsoever.