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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: 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.