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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: 2) by WizardFusion on Wednesday July 29 2015, @12:25PM
The second link redirects to the first for me.
(Score: 4, Informative) by MrNemesis on Wednesday July 29 2015, @12:47PM
Bizzaro - you appear to be correct, but it was there earlier I swear! Everyone else getting the redirect?
Possible they've issued a redirect due to being swamped on their direct download servers...? Hmm. Bandwidth certainly wasn't an issue this morning (GMT) though, came down at about 7MB/s.
"To paraphrase Nietzsche, I have looked into the abyss and been sick in it."
(Score: 3, Informative) by WizardFusion on Thursday July 30 2015, @02:00PM
Yeap, just changed my user agent and the ISO site works.
Thanks
(Score: 4, Informative) by MrNemesis on Wednesday July 29 2015, @04:38PM
Found the reason I think - they appear to be using browser/OS detection to do the redirect; when I spoof the user agent to be non-windows or just use a linux machine it offers me the direct ISO download without fuss, when I use a non-spoofed UA and it shows I'm on windows it seems to want to get me to install their util thingummy. No idea why when I first hit the download link (using Pale Moon 32bit on W7 64bit) it didn't think I was on windows but c'est la vie.
Using links (the CLI-browser) won't work I'm afraid as it requires JS in order to work and the download links have a session ID in them so I doubt reposting them here will work terribly well :( Download speeds still seem to be good at 7MB/s.
Can anyone else get to the ISO page now using spoofed UA or a non-windows OS?
"To paraphrase Nietzsche, I have looked into the abyss and been sick in it."