You can put it off for four-to-12 months, when the free upgrade offer ends, or until 2020, when Windows 7 becomes unsupported.” If you only use Windows 7, you will have some relearning to do, but the Get Started app provides a gentle introduction. If you use Windows 8 on a tablet with no mouse and keyboard, Windows 10 is optional. Should consumers take the free upgrade? If you use Windows 8 without a touch screen or you’re a gamer, it’s a no-brainer: get it as soon as you can, but back up first of course.
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There is a Microsoft tool to hide or block unwanted driver updates, however. Microsoft intends to continuously upgrade it over time, which the user has no choice about as you can’t turn updates off without becoming unsupported. Windows 10 works well, and didn’t break any of my older Windows software. Cortana is much less fun if you have to type your questions, and if you do, she will only type her replies not talk to you. I couldn’t get voice to work on a Surface Pro 3 running the latest version of Windows 10. Photograph: Jack Schofield for the Guardian
Edge isn’t finished – it still doesn’t support extensions, for example – but it works very well. Its “show off” feature is that you can write or type annotations onto web pages and email them to people. There’s even a built-in DVR to record your gameplay.įinally, there’s Edge, the new, lightweight, standards-oriented browser developed as Project Spartan. Microsoft’s DirectX 12 is a huge advance, delivering “a massive improvement in performance on the same hardware” (according to AMD).
The main one is Cortana, the personal assistant already familiar to Windows Phone users, but there are others. Windows 10 also offers some new features to encourage upgrades. Photograph: Jack Schofield for the Guardian Highlights
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