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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, 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.