Should arrive on your
PC by the end of April early may as always there's a number of useful features
baked in timeline the marquee feature lives in your taskbar and essentially
replace
his task view it tracks and list the various web pages of documents you
visited over the past days and weeks allowing to
go back quickly pick up where
you left off the kicker though is that it only tracks Microsoft apps office and
edge this is a very Microsoft specific feature nearest here or nearby sharing
is a quick and dirty version of apples AirDrop it's easy to share it document
image or URL for the share function with the nearby PC and windows does so it
up to Wi-Fi speeds focus assist which used to be called quiet hours now does a
better job intercept distracting notifications this version even blocks
notifications while you're playing a game or giving a presentation the number
of people who use Microsoft Edge continues to drop but here's a good reason to
put up the browser clutter free printing which eliminates ads and neatly format
so web page to make it look great if so you need to print out a PC world or do
here's another windows device
application guard fancy name for a super sandbox
mode Microsoft has added edge if you're gonna be surfing the dark depths the
web you should be doing it with WD'agenais beled data caps are now a thing
again and Windows 10 now let's you do a better job of managing and even
metering the data that use it's also a way of setting limits on background
updates for apps and windows itself let's face it this is an ensemble cast of
features which collectively make windows better to find out more read our
review as well as our list of hidden features which we think you need to know
about then stay tune Microsoft already working on its follow up date which will
hit your PC before the end of the year 98 has been good and then
back windows
98 was great windows and it was sucky windows XP was awesome Windows Vista a
nightmare Windows 7 a pleasure to use Windows 8 of pain so if that pattern
continues in Windows 10 to be pretty fab and from the looks of it it's going to
stay that way Microsoft is calling it the last version of windows not because
windows is reached end of life but moving
forward windows will just be referred
to as windows with regular incremental updates these changes are reflected was
even bigger changes inside Microsoft the tech guy and says it
has higher
aspirations for the world's most popular OS we want to move some people meeting
windows choosing windows to loving windows windows ten we've got ten reasons
number one return of the start menu in the way windows ten is all about
correcting the mistakes of the past when windows eight was in
veiled in twenty
twelve two particular things to bug users the most one is what i'd like to call
multiple personality disorder both in touch interface and the old desktop mode
wrestled for your attention and it was downright confusing the second pain
point was the unceremonious depth of the start menu both items have been
addressed in windows ten now when you boot up your computer it will bring
straight to be familiar desktop environments and there all glorious the bottom
left hand side of your screen since the start menu as can be expected clicking
on it brings up the familiar programs pain and to the For example
when you
switch from notebook tablet mode we experience will change to one that's
optimized for touch in soon on Windows Phone when you connect a smartphone
running Windows 10 mobile to an external monitor Bluetooth keyboard and mouse
it will scale up like you were on a laptop now that's pretty darn awesome
number 3 universal apps when it was first announced
the big promise of Windows
10 was that it would be the one operating systems to rule the mall 10 S to run
on desktops notebooks tablets smartphones the Xbox and even Microsoft you
amended reality headset hololens and one store to download apps from the vision
is pretty simple installed this one app and it will scale depending on the type
of device that it
is installed that is pretty much still a vision more than it
is reality at the moment if only more developers would drink the kool aid so to
speak for now the only available universal apps are a sweet of Microsoft Office
apps number 4 Cortana a virtual assistant built into the operating system
genius makes you wonder why Apple hasn't brought Siri into OS can you get
it
too late Windows Phone personal assistant in residence Cortana makes its way to
Windows 10 she is feisty and as helpful as ever she can search the web or your
computer remind you of upcoming flight some appointments and answer random questions
need her to tell you a joke sure you can do that he Cortana tell me a joke why
didn't the spider go to school she learned everything on the web just don't ask
for someone to love find me a boyfriend number five action center in this
smartphone dominated world notifications are part of everyday life so why
shouldn't we be able to get them on our computers two on windows ten swiping in
from the right using your touch screen or your track pad will bring out the
action
center displays at notifications like new emails facebook likes and
twitter mentions number six hello forget passwords not even the fingerprint
scanners on your smart phones as awesome as hell owe facial recognition
software build the end to window management is like taming the beast Be able to
open windows side by side like an Internet browser on one side and a
word
document on the other windows snapes improved in Windows 10 you can now arrange
up to 4 windows side by side and even get suggestions on which openwindows to
the number 8 edge browser who likes Internet Explorer raise your hands not me
and neither does Microsoft so from now on they want
me to use their new browser
aldege the browser is cleaner snappier and more modern it has a couple of nifty
features like distractions are you reading quick answers from the address bar
and the ability to annotate web pages by drawing on them it's a good start but
still has a long way to go to unseat Chrome little things like extensions are
very much needed and will give users the experience they are used to number 9
Xbox the interest of xbox one gamer yes you can now stream xbox games to your
windows computer and play with your xbox controller but that's not the best
part will soon be able to play multiplayer games between xbox and PC number ten
free this last reason is a pretty darn good one i mean who doesn't like free
right yep you heard me windows ten is completely free as long as you
have a
legit version of windows seven eight or eight point one and as long as you
upgrade within the next year box copies are still available for purchase it
that's your thing to buy that how you can upgrade click here for how to upgrade
video or if you can't wait download your copy directly from microsoft will put
the link in the description below if you