Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Windows 10 review”.
After months of testing Windows 10 very publicly, it’s finally officially here it’s a free upgrade for most people, but should you upgrade Windows 10? Is the realization of Michael’s big dream to have a single windows that runs across pcs tablets, phones and even the company’s Xbox one console right now? Windows 10 is mostly about fixing the mess that Microsoft crave. Windows 8. One of the first signs of that is the return of the Start menu. You know in love, it’s not just the regular one from Windows 7.
Instead, Microsoft has combined the best aspects of the last two versions of Windows to create a redesign Start menu. The live tiles from windows 8 remain, but you no longer booted into an entirely different full screen interface. There’S a traditional list of apps, easy access to power, options and settings and the ability to resize the menu freely. Windows. 10 is a nice dark theme and it blends in well against laptop screens that usually have black puzzles if you’re not a fan of the darkness.
There are plenty of color options to change the look of the Start, menu and taskbar there’s even a little transparency effects. The finish off the look and feel navigating around Windows, 8 was painful. With a laptop or PC and Windows. 10 is improved. Massively. The annoying hot corners of Windows, 8 have gone and Microsoft has removed.
The weird charms bar in its place is a new Action Center that works as a Notification Center to collect any alerts from apps and provide quick access to a bunch of settings. Snapping apps has been a popular feature of Windows and Microsoft has tweaked it slightly hear. There’S a new snap assist feature that makes it a lot easier to find what apps are open to snap them side-by-side. There’S also a new task View feature that’s a lot like Mission Control on the Mac. It displays all your open windows and a single screen, and you can find what you’re looking for quickly. It’S also a gateway to a new virtual desktops feature. Yes, you can finally create separate virtual desktops without having to install a third-party app. It’S mainly a power of user feature, but it’s useful. If you want to separate apps on the laptop, we don’t have a lot of screen space. One of the biggest additions to Windows 10 is Microsoft’s virtual assistant Cortana.
It’S designed to look and feel like an extension to the Start menu just like the Windows Phone equivalent. You can use your voice to search or typing queries manually, there’s even an option to enable a hey, Cortana feature that lets. You simply call the questions at your laptop.
It’S perfect if you lean back in an office chair and wants to fire off emails with your voice, but I found I mostly use it to demonstrate. Cortana to friends and family Cortana also has a helpful overview of your day, mixed in with interests like weather news and local restaurants. Cortana also has a powerful local search to find your documents on your local, hard drive or from the onedrive cloud storage service.
We have a new version of Windows, comes a new browser called edge, it might be designed to succeed Internet Explorer, but it sticks to the past. In a number of ways. Edges taskbar icon is barely different from Internet Explorer in an effort to keep it similar. For the millions of diverse Windows, users edges, simplified, clean and performs well in most cases, but there’s a few things missing and the lack of features you might expect from a modern browser. Snapping tabs into separate windows is messy downloads, start automatically, with no choice of folder and there’s no save target ass. Microsoft really started from scratch with edge, and it shows Microsoft is still included a copy of Internet Explorer in Windows 10.
For this very reason, edge does have some interesting new features. You could draw all over webpages and send a copy to friends and Cortana appears to provide you useful information in clever little ways. If you search for something in the address bar like weather, then it will immediately show the weather nearby on some restaurant websites.
It will even appear to provide you directions or opening hours. It’S not just a neat little trick, but it’s actually useful when you don’t have to search for this basic information. Mic sauce, Xbox app for Windows.
10 might be my favorite new feature. You can stream Xbox one games to a laptop and just plug in a controller to play. It works surprisingly.
Well with no lag even over a Wi-Fi network. You can only use it at home on a local network, but it’s fun. If you want to play xbox games in another room, where you don’t have a TV, the Xbox app also has access to Xbox Live and the ability to create party chats from your PC to talk to Xbox one friends.
A nice little surprise feature the Xbox app. Is screen recording you can use it to create game clips or even just record regular apps that aren’t games at all. That’S reusable! If you want to create screen, tutorials and it saves, enter, buy an expensive four party app to do it. The mail and calendar apps both support Google accounts so they’re easy to use without an Outlook. Account you’ll also notice that these apps no longer run full screen by default anymore. Mike’S others changed out with Windows 10, so you can now window these apps and move them around freely, and that makes them a lot more usable.
The most impressive additions are the new stripped-down touch based office. Apps Word Excel. Powerpoint are all available for free and they’re. A delight to use the speedy and simple with just enough features for basic editing and none of the bloat of the full desktop office. Apps, the new and improved Windows Store has finally combined apps games, music movies and TV, but there’s still a lack of quality apps. While most of Windows tends, improvements are focused on mouse and keyboard.
Microsoft hasn’t forgotten about the good touch, work that went into Windows 8. A new tablet mode in Windows, 10 aims to bridge the fullscreen world of Windows 8 with the traditional way use of Windows PC. It’S perfect for two-in-one convertible laptops and prompts allow you to switch easily between using a mouse and keyboard and flipping the hardware into a tablet mode. So should you upgrade if you can deal with a few oddities here and there and you’re frustrated with Windows? 8, then, by all means up right now, but if you depend on your Windows computer on a daily basis and it’s working fine for you, you should probably hold off until everything’s a little bit more polished.
I’Ve run into a variety of issues where my download folder takes 30 seconds to load. My audio stops working or apps like mail, just randomly break and crash. Some of the problems aren’t critical, but they can certainly be frustrating. I, like the direction Microsoft is taking with Windows, 10 accepted feedback and ideas from his customers along the way.
It feels like the best way to shape windows into something that people enjoy using rather than they have to use. Windows 10 is a great fix to the problems of Windows 8 and it’s clearly the version of Windows, we’ll all be using for many many years as a Microsoft moves to regular updates instead of major versions every few years. It feels like the cycle of good and bad version of Windows could finally be over. Microsoft might have just pulled that off. Windows. 10 is good, and it’s here to stay and that’s very exciting. .