What will Windows 10 offer me?
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What are the minimum specifications for Windows 10?
Here’s the bottom line: if at the moment you’re running Windows 7 and you’re happy with it, you will gain nothing substantial by upgrading, Early reports suggest you might even slow down your machine.
For one, the start button is back. It refines what you already got in Windows 8, adds a few notable features like the voice-activated computer assistant Cortana (which isn’t yet available in India and will be released in the near future), and generally seems more stable than Windows 8 did.
“This is all in the direction of building a relationship, being connected with you”, Forrester Research analyst Frank Gillett said of Windows 10.
Offering enhanced Windows Defender and Smart Screen to help safeguard against viruses, malware and phishing.
Microsoft is on a mission to make Windows king again.
Others will get the software when they buy a new PC.
Windows 10 is designed to run Office and Skype perfectly to increase your productivity. “Windows 10 for mobiles is in technical preview and will be available soon”. You can also use Windows Hello for single sign-on with trusted apps, and like Touch ID on an iPhone, you can also use biometric security to authorize app purchases inside the Store. A Cortana window temporarily slides over with that nugget of information so you don’t clutter your browser with opened tabs. We continued to download and test them, watching as the final version of Windows 10 took shape.
The tech major, which was betting on inter-devices capabilities before the launch, also showcased the several devices that can run on Windows 10.
One of the new features is the upgraded Action Center, which replaces the Charms Bar in Windows 8 and will be familiar to users of Windows Phone handsets.
Built-in apps including Photos, Maps, Microsoft’s new music app Groove, and Movies & TV, offer entertainment and productivity options.
“We are progressively working to introduce it to our other markets including the Middle East”, said regional general manager at Microsoft Gulf Samer Abu-Ltaif.
Users should (apparently) go to “Control panel”, “Language and region”, then go to the region for the United States, click “Administrative” and change the language to English (United States).
Windows 10 is officially available as of Wednesday, and is free for existing Windows 7 and Windows 8 users. If it asks you multiple times, just keep hitting Skip. Data from StatCounter shows that as of June this year, Windows 7 accounted for 58.1% of all desktop and tablet operating systems in China, followed by Windows XP, which Microsoft has stopped supporting, at 25.51%, compared with 12% worldwide.
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Windows 10 comes with the proposition of being the first truly cross-device operating system (OS), an OS that works seamlessly on mobiles, tablets and computers.
