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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: 3, Interesting) by PizzaRollPlinkett on Wednesday July 29 2015, @04:07PM
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
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
Looks like someone is doing their best to dull the effects of ReactOS. Assuming ReactOS ever takes off.
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