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Xero posts half-year net loss as investment in product development grows Cloud. Exchange Server bug: Patch now, but multi-factor authentication might not stop these attacks, warns Microsoft Security. On desktops and laptops, the Start menu emerges from the bottom-left corner of the screen, with most-used programs listed down the left-hand side, along with a link to an A-Z listing of all installed apps, while the right-hand side shows the Live Tiles of the Windows 8 era.
On tablets, it works very similarly to the way it did under Windows 8. We still think there's work to be done with the tiled section of the Start menu. With four different tile sizes and an awkward drag-and-drop system, it's too easy to end up with an untidy, gap-strewn mish-mash of tiles. And once you've got more than a few live tiles activated, your screen can start to look like a Las Vegas casino, with a wall of rotating, scrolling squares each trying to catch your eye.
Yet, it's undoubtedly an improvement on what went before for non-touchscreen devices. Other notable new additions are the Cortana search bar in the bottom left of the Taskbar. We'll talk more about Cortana later, but the search bar lets you enter voice or typed searches for apps or files stored on your PC. You can click the My Stuff button in search results to perform more advanced searches of your own files, which certainly makes it easier to hunt down specific files than with Windows 8.
However, we still find it easier to instigate advanced searches from within Files Explorer called Windows Explorer in 8. Windows 10 did eventually add the option to search emails through this box, which is a great addition. Talking of Files Explorer, that's had a refresh too. Aside from a stark new set of icons, Explorer now has a Quick Access view which shows your most frequently opened folders at the top of the window, with a list of recently accessed files just below, making it easier to quickly pick up where you left off on files that are nested deep in folders.
You can still pin your favourite folders to the left-hand pane of Files Explorer, but this does create some duplication with the frequent folders pane just next to it, whilst the Libraries first introduced in Windows 7 are now almost hidden from view.
The new Explorer is a modest improvement on Windows 8. One significant new interface element for businesses is virtual desktops. An idea brazenly lifted from the Linux world, Windows 10's virtual desktops let you keep different sets of apps open in different desktops.
You might, for example, have one desktop dedicated to communications with, say, Outlook, Slack and Skype running and another for work on a particular project Excel and a web browser. It allows you to compartmentalise your work, and avoid having desktops cluttered with several open windows, but it's frustrating that many apps designed to run full-screen on a touchscreen can only occupy a single desktop.
Winner : Windows 10 corrects most of Windows 8's ills with the Start screen, whilst revamped file management and virtual desktops are potential productivity boosters. An outright victory for desktop and laptop users. Even though it was the biggest overhaul of the OS since Windows 95, Windows 8 was remarkably stable and bug-free from the get-go. Indeed, we had it running on everyday work systems six months before launch.
Windows 8. But some consumers never update their PCs, and many corporations are slow to upgrade. Last year's Windows 10 evolved the PC operating system even further. It kept Windows 8's best features while returning the familiar Start button and desktop style that Microsoft introduced with Windows 95 and maintained through Windows 7. CNNMoney Sponsors. Hyde operating system " -- may be applied conclusively. While Windows 8 inherits many of the advantages of Windows 7 -- the manageability, the security plus integrated antivirus , and the broad compatibility with existing hardware and software -- it takes an axe to usability.
The lagging, limited, often hamstrung Metro apps don't help. In this review of the final, RTM version of Windows 8, I'm not going to reexamine what's come before; almost everything discussed in my Release Preview review and in my Consumer Preview review still stands.
There's no Start button on the desktop, and the utilities that managed to graft Start onto older beta versions don't work with the final RTM Win8. Moving from Metro to desktop and back again, especially on a large and touch-deprived monitor, will have you reaching for the Dramamine.
I can confirm after months in the trenches and talking with many hundreds of testers that anyone who defines "real work" as typing and mousing won't like Windows 8 one little bit.
Let's take that as a given and move on from there.
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