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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, Informative) by Urlax on Wednesday July 29 2015, @02:22PM
i did a backup of my W7, did a clean install of it and then upgraded to 10:
after installing, you get a welcome screen. it asks for you to accept the recommended settings. down left in a tiny font, you can customize the settings.
what i disabled: everything.
do not send history, backups, passwords to microsoft. it is the default, and you have to be carefull.
next screen, default apps.
browser,email, music and video are replaced by microsoft 'apps' unless you deselect them (again hard to find).
then you are dropped onto the desktop. first thing is my AMD driver, which suggest to download the latest catalys driver. so i click on the link and windows asks which default browser to use?
the start menu is filled with: "skype download", "get office" etc.
the notification center asks me to enable smartscreen again. there was a popup to please configure onedrive.
all in all it's not a free upgrade. it's antitrust all over again
(Score: 3, Insightful) by bob_super on Wednesday July 29 2015, @04:08PM
"Look at Apple! they are shiny and they do all that stuff, so we can too"