Windows 10 Beyond the Manual

178 Pages·2015·76.383 MB·English

by  Graham Barlow (editor)

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of your PC Windows device
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88 Personalise your PC 126 Hands-on with 150 Set up Family Safety
Windows 10 Mobile
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108 The best free 160 Secure your computer
Windows 10 programs 140 Connect your phone to
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36 Windows 10’s Tablet Mode
Find out how Windows 10 adapts to touchscreen devices
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indows 10 started its roll moment – with the likes of Nvidia The big releases we’ve come to
out on July 29, and if you lowering its forecast for the second know and love (or hate), have been
were one of the people quarter of the year from $1.18 billion replaced with a much more dynamic
who booked an upgrade down to just $1 billion (yes, we do feel model. A service model that should
then you’ve probably got it already. bad about using the word ‘just’ there). see updates delivered in a more regular
As well as the millions of Windows users Analyst Canalys predicted a 13 per cent manner – though how such updates are
around the world who were waiting for fall in desktop shipments in the lead up going to be financed is still something
this latest free upgrade, many hardware to the release of Windows 10. that needs to be explained.
manufacturers were too. The hope is Even the ever-popular notebooks, Windows 10 has changed a lot since
that Windows 10 will see an uplift in which usually tend to weather such we saw the first glimpses of what it had
product sales as people rush out to buy storms better than desktops, had been to offer with the Technical Previews at
new machines and/or hardware to get hit by a 4 per cent drop in demand. the start of the year. And we’re not
the most from Microsoft’s latest just talking about the operating system
operating system. See page 18 for some Soft spot itself. The unveiling of HoloLens, the
possible candidates, if you’re looking to However, the good news for the ongoing work on Cortana, Continuum
upgrade your system. manufacturers is this could be one of (now called Tablet Mode), Microsoft
Indeed, a common trend with a the last times that the ‘softening of the Edge (the Windows browser that’s a
market that’s waiting for a new market’ happens, as Microsoft has successor to Internet Explorer) and
Microsoft OS is that sales in PCs tend to announced there isn’t going to be a information on what DirectX 12 is really
dip leading up to the release. And that’s Windows 11. Instead, it’s changing how going to do for you has changed the
exactly what’s happening at the it updates Windows. proposition considerably.
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