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posted by CoolHand on Wednesday July 29 2015, @11:53AM   Printer-friendly
from the all-ms-all-the-time dept.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9471/windows-10-launches-worldwide

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.


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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by MrNemesis on Wednesday July 29 2015, @12:51PM

    by MrNemesis (1582) on Wednesday July 29 2015, @12:51PM (#215417)

    What I think will be very interesting is if people can find out whether or not it does any of that without a microsoft account - I've certainly got no intention of creating one...

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  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday July 29 2015, @02:30PM

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday July 29 2015, @02:30PM (#215465)

    Its interesting that they seem to be pivoting into this staggering privacy harvesting mode, I wonder how this works with certain use cases.

    For example everyone knows that strange orphan machine at work that still runs windows 95 because its a shared eeprom programmer. Or the W2K machine that runs and monitors the ten year old HVAC system.

    Or I have a Win7 install on a removable drive at home that literally does nothing other than act as a steam bootloader (the machine's specs are wrong for steamos which is hyper restrictive)

    Sure there's tons of machines out there that'll have all kinds of crazy stuff to steal and hand over to corporations and governments. Its basically a big old "chmod -R a+r /" on the part of the world that still uses legacy windows. But what happens when to their business model when they run into what amounts to appliances? I mean, are people even going to be able to use windows 10,11,12,... in "appliance mode" without making up fake accounts and stuff?

    I have a phone in my pocket and "mostly" do email off that phone, not so much on the desktop. I see my wife and kids so this too. Email is for old people and corporations sending bills and shipping notifications, I don't really send emails very much anymore. How does the lack of stuff to sell affect a business model oriented around selling personal data?

    "Sign up for twitter and start using it or we won't let you install W11 because we gotta pay for it by selling your tweets"?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 29 2015, @03:59PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 29 2015, @03:59PM (#215516)

      THIEF, you should buy a server license for that

    • (Score: 3, Interesting) by PizzaRollPlinkett on Wednesday July 29 2015, @04:07PM

      by PizzaRollPlinkett (4512) on Wednesday July 29 2015, @04:07PM (#215522)

      My prediction all along was that Win8 was the start of a split between "consumer" and "enterprise" windows. With the huge rejection of the Win8 UI, MS had to back off. But I think their plan is to have a free consumer Windows which is online only. You have to sign up for their "cloud" stuff to use it. It will only run metro-style apps, not legacy Win32/64 programs. The "enterprise" edition will be what today's pro version is, a full-blown Windows that runs any programs. Individual copies will cost more than a person could afford, but corporations will get deep discounts on bulk purchases, so it won't cost them any more per seat than Win7/Win8 does. The "enterprise" edition will be required to run development tools, produce binaries, publish to the app store, and so on. The "enterprise" edition will be required to run legacy programs.

      The idea behind Win8, I think, was to transition to an online-only consumer OS which required consumers to sign up with MS to use the OS, allowing them to monetize their captive audience. I'm surprised no media outlets have picked up on this or covered it, or tried to get MS to admit to it, since it's a much bigger story than the UI flubs in Win8. Imagine the day all personal computer purchasers who get machines at Office Depot or Wal-Mart have to sign up for an MS account and give personal information to MS, and let MS track what they do.

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      • (Score: 3, Insightful) by WillR on Wednesday July 29 2015, @06:12PM

        by WillR (2012) on Wednesday July 29 2015, @06:12PM (#215568)

        It will only run metro-style apps, not legacy Win32/64 programs.

        Well, that's one way to kill Windows on the (home) desktop.

        • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Thursday July 30 2015, @05:58PM

          by Freeman (732) on Thursday July 30 2015, @05:58PM (#215958) Journal

          Looks like someone is doing their best to dull the effects of ReactOS. Assuming ReactOS ever takes off.

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  • (Score: 2) by PizzaRollPlinkett on Wednesday July 29 2015, @04:01PM

    by PizzaRollPlinkett (4512) on Wednesday July 29 2015, @04:01PM (#215518)

    It's hard not to create an online account. I installed Win8 from a DVD and had to jump through hoops to set up a local account. Not easy or intuitive, and I knew what I was doing. With Win8, MS has gone all-out to try to get people to sign up for their cloud services, and Win10 seems to be more of the same. They may have misstepped with the user interface, but Win8 was first and foremost an attempt to monetize a captive audience by all but forcing them to sign up for MS's cloud stuff. Win10 is apparently taking it to the next level. Anyone remember when you bought a computer to run programs and work with local data you wanted to keep private?

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