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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, Informative) by Hairyfeet on Wednesday July 29 2015, @07:54PM
Its still got some serious suckage, which is why I'm advising customers to avoid it for a few more months to see what MSFT does about it. For the most glaring example the fucked all to hell Windows 8/ Windows 7 mashup that is "settings" and "control panel". I have yet to find a way to simply remove or bypass the settings menu and one attempt at using it will tell you its more of the "supergigantic smartphone" crap like Windows 8, BADLY dumbed down and without access to the majority of control panel items, its nothing but frustration and fail. Also too many Win 10 features seem to revolve around "just give us all your data, trust us" from OneDrive to Cortana it seems like none of the new whiz bang features can be used without signing everything over to MSFT.
So until they show us a true "killer app" I'm advising waiting, last I checked if you upgrade you only get 30 days to change your mind and after that your Windows 7 key is toast and with Win 7 supported until 2020? I'm just not seeing anything too impressive ATM.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Reziac on Thursday July 30 2015, @02:14AM
I've concluded Win10's real reason for existence is to get everyone used to spending a dollar here and a dollar there at the Windows Store, where you're supposed to buy fixes for all the stuff that's been broken or removed. Microsoft has been looking for a way to monetize the consumer-level desktop since forever (consumer Windows has never been much of a profit center; that's always been bulk contracts) and smartphones have shown them the true path.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 30 2015, @02:54AM
calling Microsoft "MSFT" is about as gay as someone on the other side of the fence calling it "M$"
even if you just lose the FT so that you just type MS, it would go a long way towards making you seem less like a Microsoft toolbag