Microsoft announced today that its new OS, Windows 10, will be launched on July 29th. Windows 10 brings back the Start menu and aims to be faster than ever before, with quick startup and resume. In addition, Windows 10 promises to be the most secure platform ever, including Windows Defender for free anti-malware protection.
Here are some of Windows 10’s key features:
- Cortana, the world’s first truly personal digital assistant helps you get things done. Cortana learns your preferences to provide relevant recommendations, fast access to information, and important reminders. Interaction is natural and easy via talking or typing. And the Cortana experience works not just on your PC, but can notify and help you on your smartphone too.
- Microsoft Edge, is an all-new browser designed to get things done online in new ways, with built-in commenting on the web – via typing or inking — sharing comments, and a reading view that makes reading web sites much faster and easier. With Cortana integrated, Microsoft Edge offers quick results and content based on your interests and preferences. Fast, streamlined and personal, you can focus on just the content that matters to you and actively engage with the web.
- Office on Windows: In addition to the Office 2016 full featured desktop suite, Windows 10 users will be able to experience new universal Windows applications for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, all available separately. These offer a consistent, touch-first experience across a range of devices to increase you productivity. Designed from the ground up to run on Windows 10, you can easily create and edit Word documents, and deliver PowerPoint presentations while annotating on the fly. With new touch-first controls in Excel you can create or update spreadsheets without a keyboard or mouse. You will also be able to enjoy new versions of OneNote and Outlook, which are included with Windows 10 at no additional cost.
- Xbox Live and the integrated Xbox App bring new game experiences to Windows 10. Xbox on Windows 10 brings the expansive Xbox Live gaming network to both Windows 10 PCs and tablets. Communicate with your friends on Windows 10 PCs and Xbox One – while playing any PC game. You can capture, edit and share your greatest gaming moments with Game DVR, and play new games with friends across devices. You can play games on your PC, streamed directly from your Xbox One console to your Windows 10 tablets or PCs, within your home. Games developed for DirectX 12 in Windows 10 will see improvements in speed, efficiency and graphics capability.
- New Photos, Videos, Music, Maps, People, Mail & Calendar apps have updated designs that look and feel familiar from app to app and device to device. You can start something on one device and continue it on another since your content is stored on and synched through OneDrive.
- Windows Continuum enables today’s best laptops and 2-in-1 devices to elegantly transform from one form factor to the other, enabling smooth transitions of your tablet into a PC, and back. And new Windows phones with Continuum can be connected to a monitor, mouse and physical keyboard to make your phone work like a PC.
- Windows Hello, greets you by name and with a smile, letting you log in without a password and providing instant, more secure access to your Windows 10 devices. With Windows Hello, biometric authentication is easy with your face, iris, or finger, providing instant recognition.
- Windows Store, with easy install and uninstall of trusted applications, supported by the broadest range of global payment methods.
Enjoy!

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What it dosent mention is will microsoft offer a free upgrade for all of us windows 7 users or i will have to take the pc to mu local computer service shop and tell them to install windwos 10? Also since i dont want to lost any of my games and programd it will be possible to install windows 10 the other hard disk so i can keep windows 7 and windows 10 at the same time? How much will windows 10 cost?
if you using win 8 or win 8.1 you notice you can reserve your copy of Windows 10 right now, when you click it at bottom right of your screen this will show up http://puu.sh/i817g/6a1e8b98f0.jpg
Getting that option on Win7 as well.
I have windows 7 and i dont see this message yet.
yea i saw that
It’s only free for a year though.
Also this 40% game perfomance improvement in dx12 compared to dx11 that profect car developer talked about how many much fps is exactly? I have gtx 970 g1 gaming.
You won’t get an exact number. The Project CARS devs were talking general efficiency on the engine so it might run a few FPS higher and some features will have less overhead due to the drawcall and multithread support. The 30-40% is a general ballpark number for the overall game. Increases on some hardware that had problems in DX 11 like AMD CPUs might go beyond that 30-40%.
A 970 should be pulling solid 60 on very high already on PC Cars at 1080P anyway.
Well Steam OS isn’t going to appear anytime soon, and this will have DX 12, so here we go again I guess…
All my old games that barely works on windows 8 makes me wana wait a year before upgrading.
new > old
ehh, most modern games still can’t get close to titles like deus ex 1 and thief 2.
lies!! new gfx > old gfx
i will pirate windows 10 anyway
wait its free upgrade only for a year but after we upgraded its forever or after a year – if you miss this – no more upgrade for free windows 10 ?
They better give out windows 10 as a ISO and not just force your to install via their upgrade method.
They’ve been making all technical previews available as ISOs as well as via update, so hopefully, yeah.
They better fix those nasty and inconsistent titlebars before the release.
It’s hurting my OCD.
http://i.imgur.com/6h6kUd4.gif
i’m on build 10130 and it works very very good for gaming, both witcher and gta 5 run really really nice and the pc boots up way faster even on ssd. I feel it to run more smoothly and faster than 8.1
Thank you for listing all the features I will be uninstalling as soon as I get Windows10.