Post Windows 10 Microsoft is attempting to overturn the arguments of both home users and those who stubbornly refuse to make the transition from obsolete Windows XP or fixed Windows 7 to the latest version of its Windows 8 operating system.
Windows 10 is estimated to be available in the spring of 2015, however the Microsoft software engineers who presented the Tech Preview refrained from mentioning the release date and price their disposition.
At the moment, Microsoft, through the head of the Windows development department, Joe Belfiore, calls on advanced users to help configure Windows 10 by downloading and installing free of charge the early and possibly unstable Tech Preview to submit comments and remarks their.
Desktop or Metro; Automatic switching depending on keyboard use
In Windows 8, there were two work surfaces, the traditional, altered, desktop and Metro, with large squares of tiles oriented to touch surfaces. This rotation is confusing, the first users said.
In Windows 10, Microsoft clarifies things and shows how the user will be in a Metro environment with large icons only when using his computer as a tablet using the touch screen.
During the demonstration on September 30, 2014, switching from desktop to "tablet mode" was done automatically by connecting or disconnecting a keyboard and with the user's consent (the demonstration was performed on a Microsoft Surface Pro, a computer with a detachable keyboard which turns into a tablet).
App for Metro, Desktop Applications? House or window view of all applications
After connecting the keyboard, the apps that the user used while in tablet mode change their appearance and look like familiar Windows windows again with the ability to move, minimize, maximize or close in the upper left part of their window. THE surface Metro disappears and is reduced to the icons of user-selected apps on the side of the familiar, if new, Start menu.
Start menu without programs? All apps in the menu and search capability
All programs are displayed in the Start menu, a notable omission in Windows 8. There, the search feature was added (in the menu as well as in the taskbar, την μπάρα εργασιών στο κάτω μέρος της επιφάνειας εργασίας). Ενδιαφέρον είναι μάλιστα πως, η αναζήτηση φέρνει αποτελέσματα όχι μόνο από τον υπολογιστή του χρήστη αλλά και από το Ίντερνετ, παραπέμποντας στην χρήση του Microsoft Bing -κι εδώ, ευελπιστούμε πως ο χρήστης θα έχει την δυνατότητα να επιλέξει την μηχανή αναζήτησης που θα διενεργεί την ιντερνετική τουλάχιστον αναζήτηση, δεδομένης της ύπαρξης εναλλακτικών μηχανών (Google Desktop, Google Search).
Alt + Tab Find the Task View button
The icon has been added to switch between running programs - something that users did with the familiar Alt + Tab combination in Windows XP and other versions. It was named Task View and is symbolized by an icon next to the search engine magnifying glass on the taskbar. One click on Task View shows the applications that are running to choose which user to work with.
Snap: Multiple apps on the same screen
At the same time, Microsoft shows that Snap up to four apps on the same screen is easier to make, making suggestions for choosing combinations.
Multiple desktop: In one desktop Work project, the other Home project
Windows 10 also added the ability to create multiple desktop, a functionality that Windows users did not use so far. It is recommended as a method of organizing tasks that the user is working on simultaneously, such as when processing a Powepoint presentation for the office, drawing data from an Excel sheet and a document in Word, and at the same time attempting to organize a personal voyage with family by opening windows in the browser and running applications for car and / or home rentals.
