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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, Interesting) by miljo on Wednesday July 29 2015, @12:50PM
I checked my Windows 7 box this morning and I apparently wasn't in the first wave of upgrades. I'm curious to know what the criteria are for each wave.
TBH I'm sort of excited to play with this. Like my neckbearded brethren, I'm very much a *nix guy, but there's something about the launch of a new OS, on any platform, that scratches an itch, perhaps mostly for nostalgia reasons.
I know ultimately M$ has created a conduit to the money bin that is personal data, and that makes me sad, but I'm going to give it a spin anyhow.
One should strive to achieve, not sit in bitter regret.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 29 2015, @01:09PM
I too will give it a spin. Like it or not family and friends will ask questions about it. I do like helping them...
I have 2 computers where I told it to upgrade. One has 4 gig blob of dlls/exes/mui/cab files the other has 7gig. That was last night around 7pm. It looks like most of it was downloaded on the 10th with another chunk yesterday.
I am going to wait about 1-2 weeks though. I want to see what springs come flying out. I also think I will wait on that .net 4.5 critical bug they managed to create. Once both those criteria are met for me I will upgrade.
Have to remember to backup my music again. They still have not fixed the TXXX bug from 2009. Even though I reported it and gave them exact steps to repo it (with a video!).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 29 2015, @03:00PM
My 8.1 Pro laptop got it this morning (slick install screen, I must say) but my 7 Ultimate is still waiting as well as my 8.1 Surface.
(Score: 2) by GoonDu on Thursday July 30 2015, @03:27AM
Give it a few months, people will start hacking up a solution to prevent MS to snoop the data. With enough public outcry, MS will hopefully backpeddle like what it did with xbox one.