Windows 10 Tricks

Microsoft isn't exactly pressing the restart button on its operating 
system with Windows 10, but it's changing enough for the company to skip
 a number altogether. Features from the Start menu to better 
multitasking to a brand new browser are all on the table for the new OS.
 Here's a breakdown of the biggest new features coming to Windows 10.<br />
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The Start menu: bigger, better, stronger</h3>
The return of the 
Start menu that Microsoft teased during its Build 2014 conference and 
detailed in full at subsequent events has been available for testing in 
the WTP since October 2014. Replete with a merging of the traditional 
Windows 7-style interface and Windows 8 Live Tiles, the new Start menu 
is designed to please both camps: touch and mouse users.<br />
"They 
don't have to learn any new way to drive," Belfiore said, referring to 
Windows 7 users. That said, customization will also be featured 
throughout, first with the ability to resize the Start menu itself along
 with the Live Tiles within.<br />
The Start menu features empowered 
search capabilities as well, able to crawl your entire machine, not to 
mention web results. We know now that this is through Cortana, 
Microsoft's voice assistant, but more on that later.<br />
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Microsoft's New Office </h3>
Back in February, shortly after a leaked video on WinBeta
 revealed Microsoft's Universal (now known simply as Windows) Office 
apps in detail, the company issued an update to the Windows 10 Technical
 Preview with just that. If you're not doing so already, WTP users can 
test out the new Word, PowerPoint and Excel Universal (or Windows) apps.<br />
Like
 the whole of Windows 10, these apps are designed to work on Windows 10 
laptops, tablets and phones. This update comes in advance of Office 
2016, Microsoft's desktop-based version of the suite, which we expect to
 see debut in the second half of 2015. It's likely that Office 2016 will
 interact with its Windows app counterparts through OneDrive and other 
solutions.<br />
And back during MWC 2015, Microsoft squeezed out a few more details surrounding the touch-centric Office 2016,
 namely cosmetic makeovers for Outlook, Word, PowerPoint and Excel. 
Also, Outlook will be more deeply integrated with its sister apps than 
ever before. Finally, the new Insights and Tell Me features will let 
users search the internet from within Office and create search-based 
command prompts, respectively.<br />
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Windows Phone fans get a sneak peek</h3>
After much teasing leading up to an event during MWC 2015, a 
Technical Preview of Windows 10 for phones was released to just about 
every Lumia device under the sun. <br />
Handled much in the same way as it is on desktop, the WTP for Windows 10 on phones has introduced alpha-phase features like the Project Spartan browser,
 the new Outlook and a much-improved camera app that borrows heavily 
from Nokia's camera app for its pre-Windows-buyout Lumia phones. Check 
out all the details here.<br />
As
 for when it's coming to everyone in a final release, there have been 
far fewer rumors and scuttlebutt than we've seen around Windows 10 for 
PCs. It's assumed that Windows 10 will released simultaneously across 
all supported device categories, including phones, but Microsoft has yet
 to address that publicly.<br />
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Cortana is warping to the PC</h3>
That's right, Windows 10 will see the spread of Cortana, Microsoft's 
Siri and Google Now competitor, into Windows PCs and tablets in addition
 to phones. Microsoft's Joe Belfiore showed off the new PC-centric 
features within Cortana during its January reveal event.<br />
Namely, 
Redmond developed PC-specific functions into Cortana for easier access 
to files, apps and more. Belfiore demonstrated colloquial queries like, 
"Show me photos from December," to which Cortana summoned images within 
that time period immediately. The idea here is to make key pain points 
in interacting with a PC easier than before through voice.<br />
Since then, Microsoft has gone on to discuss how Cortana is more about machine learning,
 or computer systems and services becoming smarter over time based on 
user behavior, than simply retrieving files and facts for you. Plus, it 
was recently reported by Reuters that Microsoft has aims to release the voice assistant to iOS and Android.<br />
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Microsoft gets an Edge</h3>
During the Build 2015 conference, Microsoft's Joe Belfiore outed 
Project Spartan as Microsoft Edge, the official name for the company's 
Windows 10 browser of choice. The original details follow.<br />
Project
 Spartan, essentially the company's replacement for Internet Explorer, 
was revealed during the January event, too. Belfiore detailed unique 
features, like the ability to mark up webpages before sharing them with 
others, and to comment on those same pages at the software level.<br />
Once
 pages are marked up with drawings and comments, that page is frozen in 
time with live links and open for sharing through Windows 10's built-in 
sharing features. Spartan will also support built-in offline reading and
 PDF support, not to mention Cortana.<br />
Microsoft's virtual 
assistant will be baked into Spartan and pop in with recommendations and
 help based on your browser behavior. Belfiore in particular demoed a 
scenario in which a user is en route to a flight. Upon opening the 
browser to find flight data, Cortana will pop in with that info before 
the user even needs to look it up.<br />
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Windows 10 and Xbox unite</h3>
Microsoft's Xbox lead Phil Spencer took the stage during Microsoft's big
 January event, detailing the Xbox app on Windows 10. The app collects 
all games played on any Xbox or Windows 10 device, a universal friends 
list and an activity feed. Every Windows 10 device will have the Xbox 
app pre-loaded.<br />
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Users will be able to record game sessions through the Game DVR tool 
and share them across the Xbox network. Essentially, Windows 10 will 
bring the automated recording featured in Xbox One to games played on 
Windows 10 – even those launched through other apps, like Steam.<br />
Around the time of GDC 2015, Microsoft updated the Xbox the app for Windows 10
 for testing in the WTP with just about everything teased during the 
January event, including access to Xbox One game clips and options to 
search for friends and interact with the Xbox Live activity feed. Plus, 
the app can now better deal with window size changes. Finally, users can
 control the Xbox One through a virtualized remote control within the 
Xbox One app on Windows 10.<br />
But back to the January event, Spencer
 also briefly showed off Microsoft's next collection of graphics and 
gaming APIs, DirectX 12. Namely, support for the platform has expanded 
to the Unity game engine, and DX12 enables low-power graphics processing
 for Windows 10 mobile devices.<br />
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Keeping in touch</h3>
During the January event, Belfiore demonstrated its "continuum" 
approach to computing with Windows 10 – not just through different 
devices, but 2-in-1 products as well. Using a Surface Pro 3, the OS 
chief showed off what it will be like changing use cases on a Windows 10
 device.<br />
When the tablet was connected to its keyboard cover, the 
Surface Pro 3 acted as if it were a laptop, which it technically is. 
Then, as soon as Belfiore removed the keyboard, a small icon appeared in
 the lower right of the screen, asking him whether he'd like to activate
 tablet mode.<br />
Doing so changed all of the apps to full screen, 
made icons slightly larger and allowed users to access the Start screen a
 la Windows 8, albeit much updated. As soon as he reconnected the 
keyboard, the device offered to revert back to its original mode, which 
then repositioned and resized the windows and icons as they were.<br />
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It's still all about unity</h3>
Windows 10 will be "one application platform" for all the devices 
that run Windows, Microsoft Windows head Terry Myerson declared during 
the September 2014 reveal, with one store to rule them all. (So to 
speak.)<br />
While on stage at the event, Microsoft showed images of 
the new operating system running on everything from desktop PCs to 
smartphones. In fact, Myerson confirmed that Windows 10 will be the 
driving OS behind its smartphone platform as well.<br />
Myerson was mum
 on the naming conventions (e.g. whether Windows 10 on phones would be 
known as Windows Phone 10, et. al). But what matters is this: Windows 10
 will be behind every device that Microsoft has a hand in.<br />
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