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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 29 2015, @01:13PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 29 2015, @01:13PM (#215430)

    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

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 29 2015, @03:55PM (#215514)

    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

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 30 2015, @02:51AM (#215710)

      that website is fucking painful

      it even makes myspace look slick

  • (Score: 1) by Post-Nihilist on Friday July 31 2015, @03:53AM

    by Post-Nihilist (5672) on Friday July 31 2015, @03:53AM (#216154)

    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

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