Microsoft Windows 1. Review & Rating. Windows 1. 0 has been leading innovation in desktop operating systems for a while. Consider, for example, that the voice- activated digital assistant Cortana showed up year before Apple added Siri to mac. OS, that only Windows Hello lets you log in to your computer with your face, and that only Windows offers full touch- screen support. With last spring's Creators Update, Microsoft builds on that lead. Creators Update isn't a drastic overhaul; rather it improves the system's media and gaming capabilities. Even with all its forward- looking features, however, the OS remains familiar to longtime users. The upcoming Fall Creators Update is poised to deliver additional improvements. Windows 1. 0 joins mac. OS as an Editors' Choice desktop operating system. What's New in Creators Update? Before digging into all the details of the OS, here's a cheat sheet of what's new in Creators Update: Paint 3. YouTube’s latest push to ban terrorist propaganda across its ubiquitous video platform is getting off to a rough start. Earlier this week, noted investigative. D: Lets nonprofessionals create and decorate 3. D models and share them on Remix. D. com. It also supports 3. Get help, support, and tutorials for Windows products—Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 7, and Windows 10 Mobile. Latest trending topics being covered on ZDNet including Reviews, Tech Industry, Security, Hardware, Apple, and Windows. ![]() D printing. Book Store and Edge Web Browser Updates: Offers new tab management and viewing capabilities, ebook support (books are available from the Windows app store), and more (and more powerful) extensions. Gaming: Game mode shifts system resources away from other tasks and to your game. You can also broadcast your game session with integrated Beam and the Game Bar. Night Light: Like Apple's Night Shift, this reduces blue light emission so as not to interfere with your sleep cycles. Cortana: Offers suggested Reminders (based on Outlook email). Pick Up Where I Left Off notifies you of recent documents and webpages when you return. Helps with initial system setup. Sets up devices like the Harman Kardon Invoke smart speaker. Privacy Dashboard: After all the outcry about Microsoft collecting usage data, the update brings relevant settings to the forefront and lets you clear data it's collected. There are also clearer privacy options at setup. Security: The Windows Defender Security has been updated, there's now a Device Health Advisor, and you can log in and out with a mobile phone. Creators Update continues with Microsoft's strategy of offering the operating system as a service, meaning it's continually updated via the cloud. The updates are free if you already have a Windows 1. Last summer's Anniversary Update added digital ink support, lock- screen Cortana and music controls, better security, and improvements to the interface and Edge web browser. Many of the updates were prompted by vast amounts of user feedback. Next in line is Fall Creators Update, which we now know is scheduled to launch on October 1. Microsoft EVP Terry Myerson. As its name implies, Fall Creators Update will build on the original Creators Update—but with more than just creativity features. A standout feature of Fall Creators will be the gorgeous new Fluent Design System, which uses effects like translucence, lighting, and animations to help you focus on the task at hand. You'll also see new features that work with non- Windows mobile operating systems, such as Pick Up Where You Left Off, and cloud Clipboard. My People, a unified communication feature, will let you pin frequent contacts for easy interaction via multiple channels such as messages and email. For more Fall Creators highlights, read Windows 1. Fall Creators Update: 7 Things to Check Out. Because of Windows 1. For example, some of the Fluent Design elements are already showing up in some Windows stock apps, including Photos, Calculator, and Groove Music, in which window borders now have translucence and buttons and menus respond to a mouse- hover with lighting changes. And I've already seen some new photo and video capabilties appearing in the Photos app (see Included Apps section below). Windows Is Back on Track. Even before the Creators Update, Microsoft's flagship software has proven to be a much bigger success than its ill- fated predecessor, Windows 8: Windows 1. May—certainly more by now). By comparison, all versions of Apple's desktop operating system account for less than 8 percent of worldwide computers, according to data from Net. Market. Share. That said, Windows 7 holdouts still retain nearly 4. The newest Windows still runs the vast majority of the millions of existing Windows programs. Yes, that means it still uses the much- derided Registry to maintain configuration settings, but on today's fast hardware, it's no longer much of an issue. And modern Windows Store apps don't come with any Registry baggage. That's partly why Microsoft is coming out with Windows 1. S, which will only run Store apps. In fact, Microsoft recommends against using any third- party registry- optimizing software for Windows 1. How to Get Windows 1. If you're running Windows 1. Creators Update is a simple matter of running Windows Update, accessible from the Settings app. If you don't see it, you can head to Microsoft's Windows Download page to force the issue, or even download a disc image ISO to create startup media for a clean installation. Microsoft has changed the update interface so that it's less likely to interrupt you while you need the PC. And the latest version can even get you up and running using just your voice and Cortana! If you didn't move up from Windows 7 or 8 during the year it was a free upgrade, you can still get Windows 1. You can get the software via download or on USB sticks for the same prices as previous Windows versions; that is, $1. Home and $1. 99. 9. Pro. Your data and programs come along for the ride when you update from previous versions, though it's always a good idea to back up before an OS upgrade. Windows 1. 0's minimum system requirements are surprisingly low: a 1. GHz processor, 1. GB of RAM, and 1. GB of hard drive space. The 6. 4- bit version of Windows 1. RAM requirement to 2. GB and the disk space to 2. GB. You'll also need a Direct. X 9- capable graphics card and a display with at least 8. You can find out whether your system is up to snuff by reading Can My PC Run Windows 1. Windows 1. 0 is available to most users in just two editions: Home and Pro (with 3. Pro adds business- y things like network domain joining, Hyper- V virtualization, group policy management, and Bit. Locker encryption. That last one may be of interest to security- conscious personal users, too. Unsurprisingly, if you upgrade from Home levels of Windows 7 or 8, you get Windows 1. Home, and if you update from the professional versions of 7 or 8, you get Pro. There are, of course, other editions of Windows 1. The latest is Windows 1. S, which, as mentioned, will only run Windows Store apps, which will vastly improve security and performance. That version will be the default on the new Surface Laptop. Enterprise is still an option for large organizations that want bulk licensing deals. Two Education versions target K- 1. Windows 1. 0 Pro Education and Windows 1. Education. And let's not forget the lightweight edition that powers Internet of Things devices and the Raspberry Pi: Windows 1. Io. T Core. When setting up a Windows 1. Microsoft account, but you'll lose many of the OS's best features if you do so. Many critics have nevertheless called out Microsoft for harvesting usage data by default, so the company has clarified privacy choices at setup. For details, read Windows 1. How to Protect Your Privacy. Interface. Windows 1. Windows users, while managing to incorporate many of the advances of Windows 8—faster startup, tablet capability, better notifications, and an app store. Its windowing prowess remains unmatched, letting you easily show the desktop and snap windows to the sides and corner quadrants of the screen. Creators Update doesn't change Windows 1. Anniversary subtly did, aside from the new Night Light setting. This works similarly to Apple products' Night Shift, adjusting the colors displayed away from the blue part of the spectrum, which has been found to interfere with a good night's sleep. When you turn on Night Light in Settings, by default it's enabled from sunset to sunrise, but you can change it to hours you specify, or turn it on immediately. Apple Night Shift only offers the last two options. You can even adjust the warmth of the spectrum Night Light uses (see screenshot). The Start menu still shows the All Apps list without a second button press, and it also shows most used and newly installed apps. I appreciate how you can set basic folder icons to appear, too, or not, as you choose. Bing's US Market Share Is Wildly Underestimated. Microsoft claims Bing, its search engine for people who have just unboxed a new computer and are trying to find out where to download Chrome, is bigger than you think. Stats released by the company this week claim Bing enjoys an astonishing 3. US, which is far higher than the frankly more believable 9 percent it reports worldwide. According to Microsoft, the 3. This is surprising, because as Ars Technica’s Peter Bright noted, the most common reaction he gets when he says he uses the site at all is slack- jawed stares and stupid questions. I, for one, can’t remember a single time I’ve used Bing in recent memory, other than the aforementioned use of installing a web browser that doesn’t use Bing. If Microsoft’s metrics are to be believed, it’s quite a coup: Half a decade ago, some rankings had it come in at under 3 percent of global searches. The numbers seem to go up and down depending on the source, but the most generous prior estimate (from Comscore last year) put Microsoft at just north of 2. Bing technology powers Yahoo’s search engine. None of that counts mobile queries, where Google has a functional global monopoly with virtually no meaningful competition whatsoever. So few web- savvy people seem to use Bing that those who do are a sort of curiosity, though that might just be compartmentalization: If you’re a heavy Google user, using Chrome tied to a Gmail account, it might not ever occur to you that Bing even exists. But since the vast majority of new computer sales are for Windows devices, which come preloaded with Bing- defaulting browsers Internet Explorer or Edge, one would imagine there’s enough workplace users, old people, folks who don’t give a damn and others of their ilk to make up a big share of the market. They’re real and they’re out there, just Binging it up, occasionally not noticing sand penises.[Ars Technica].
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