Microsoft also plans on making it easier to customise the Action Center with icons, prioritised notifications and Android notifications.
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For Windows 10 Tablet users like me, the Start Screen is just as important – perhaps even more so – than the Start menu.
Microsoft will start rolling out its Windows 10 Anniversary Update today to more than 350 million users who already use Windows 10.
Microsoft’s Windows 10 release and update schedule has seen the company attempt to rebrand itself as a services company as well as a software company.
Timed to coincide with Windows 10’s first birthday, the update includes a host of behind-the-scenes tweaks and upgrades, as well as one or two major new features.
Edge now uses less power, allows note taking on web pages and provides a reading view for distraction-free reading of web content.
Hence the big celebration.
For now, the Anniversary Update is an incremental update that makes Windows 10 incrementally better.
That’s why Microsoft has made this rather informal wallpaper release: because its Insider community has acquired a life of its own.
The Anniversary Update comes days after Microsoft ended a free upgrade programme for users eligible to update to Windows 10, which was released in July 2015. This means that your Windows 10 licence will be tied to your Microsoft accounts. Which requires Windows 10, naturally.
Nearly all the features that were in the preview are available in the update, along with some features that weren’t.
Windows Hello will bolster security with biometric options, while Windows Ink will allow you to draw directly onto the screen without ruining your monitor.
Enterprise customers will also get the new Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection feature (WDATP), which “detects, investigates, and responds to advanced malicious attacks on networks by providing a more comprehensive threat intelligence and attack detection”, said Yusuf Mehdi, corporate vice president for the Microsoft Windows and Devices Group, in a blog post last month. First, the all apps list is now front and centre in the start menu. Even Windows XP, which was released almost 14 years ago, can be found on 10.34 percent of the world’s PCs. Reportedly, Microsoft has been ordered to pay at least one other consumer several thousand dollars as compensation for its Windows 10 upgrade process.
Following that, the users would need to go to the settings of their mobile app. In fact, home users will be getting it whether they like it or not. Also, Microsoft noted that the media creation tool doesn’t work for this version.
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It might be surprising that Microsoft would risk people trying to use this opportunity to still update for free even though the general period as lapsed. Users will then have to click on the Upgrade Now button, which will download an executable file that users should then run to begin the download and installation of the free update to Windows 10.
