Windows 10 Mobile might still be a long way off

I can not stress enough that you need to remove third party antivirus programs, especially those that substitute the Windows firewall with their own. Yes, the new Edge browser is really good, fast and light, but there are people who believe it is just not playing fair. Make sure you have a powerful machine to run VS on if you are planning to work with UWAs. On Wednesday, the desktop and tablet version was launched. You can also share it socially with friends or colleagues. Who’s Windows 10 wearing? The enhancements in Windows 8.1 went a long way to solving these issues, with touches like the taskbar appearing on top of the Start screen if you needed it to.

An Action Center offers quick access to settings such as Wi-Fi, brightness and “quiet hours” – a way to suspend notifications and sounds if, say, you’re giving a presentation.

Next year will bring more major Service Releases in a series of upgrades dubbed “Redstone”, which we’ve been hearing about for some time now.

Most of this article relates to doing an in place upgrade.

The Redmond, Wash. company will quietly pre-load the upgrade on Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 devices whose owners have already “reserved” copies.

Windows 7 only required a local user/administrator account. Well, my HP Spectre x360 got 6.5 hours of battery life on Windows 8.1.

A much better way to adopt layout to form factor is to use multiple XAML Views. This is something of a theme for Microsoft: the initial Windows 10 release was codenamed “Threshold”, a planet from the Halo video game series, another Microsoft property. Microsoft says this is to improve speech recognition – which is most likely true – but elsewhere the document states that this involves collecting “your name and nickname, your recent calendar events and the names of the people in your appointments, and information about your contacts including names and nicknames”.

On the first page of Customisation turn off Personalisation; Typing and inking data; Let apps use your advertising ID; and location.

If you do update to Windows 10 in these early days – here’s how to skip the queue and install Windows 10 right now – these are some of the common problems you may encounter. In the bottom left is File Explorer, Settings (Control Panel is burried there), Power and All Apps. It isn’t Windows 8, which was released in 2012 and created widespread puzzlement by submerging the traditional desktop interface beneath big, bright “tiles” and getting rid of the familiar, popular start menu.

But the new Movies & TV app won’t keep playing when it’s minimized. However, the fact that this isn’t an opt-in feature means many users won’t think to change it. One day, a Windows 10 laptop would give me one number.

The Windows Update section of Settings will open.