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How much control you have over updates depends on what version of Windows you have, and whether it is in a managed business environment. Users of Windows Home agree to get updates automatically, but can choose between automatic or manual restarts when needed. There is also an option for peer-to-peer update delivery, either restricted to the local network or from any PC (the default).Windows updates can still be managed in a business environment using tools like WSUS (Windows Server Update Services), for users of the Professional or Enterprise editions. That said, Microsoft will not support every possible variant of Windows 10, as it changes over time, but only versions from the last so many months – said to be 8 months. After that time, you can restrict updates, but might not get security patches.The solution for update-averse businesses is to opt for the Enterprise edition and to select a special version called Long Term Servicing Branch. These editions are feature-frozen for an extended period, receiving only security patches.


Overall it is a reasonable compromise between the desire to remain secure and up to date on the one hand, and the wish to keep control over your PC and to avoid breaking applications on the other.Windows 10 has discarded the dual personality of Windows 8, but still has two distinct types of application. UWP apps may now look similar to classic desktop apps, but there are big differences under the covers. Even if you are not a developer, it is worth reading about the app lifecycle, which explains how UWP apps can be suspended or terminated by Windows. When they crash, they typically exit silently, which can be confusing, though this is in line with Microsoft's guidelines. Most UWP apps are single instance, including Microsoft's Office Mobile where multiple instances would be useful, though multi-instance apps are possible (Calculator is one). Users will discover that UWP apps are not quite like desktop apps.A key difference between Windows 8 and 10 is the effort Microsoft has made with its own apps. Groove Music (formerly Xbox Music) adds FLAC support as well as the ability to stream personal music files stored on OneDrive, Microsoft's cloud storage. Photos also does a good job of hooking into OneDrive, and includes basic editing and enhancement features, or you can use it for slide shows perhaps in combination with wireless projection to a large display, also built into Windows 10. Mail and Calendar are improved over the Windows 8 equivalents, and the ability to run in a window makes them more usable. Maps has acquired features familiar to Windows Phone users, such as the ability to download maps for use offline.


There is still an issue with UWP apps tending to be stupidly big and bold on occasion – Calculator, for example – but at least touch usability is there. Microsoft has had the sense to leave well alone with some accessories, including Notepad, Paint, and Character Map.Office Mobile, substantially the same suite of apps (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) as found on iOS and Android, offers an impressive subset of features when compared to full desktop Office, together with a design that works for touch as well as mouse/keyboard. Another app worth checking out is Fresh Paint, which simulates physical painting through a variety of brushes and effects.This first-party effort is important, since it will help persuade users that the Windows Store is worth investigating. This in turn may convince developers that if they build apps for Windows 10, they will find a market. Microsoft desperately needs this to happen in order to revive the Window ecosystem, especially in the consumer market. It is not surprising then that Cortana/Search includes Store results, giving users a one-tap link to install a discovered app.


The Store itself is in a better state than at the launch of Windows 8, but that is faint praise. The absence of compelling apps remains obvious. Whether or not Microsoft can get over this hump is a key Windows 10 question; at this stage all we can say is that it is broadly going the right way about it (at last).Could the Windows Store become the main way of deploying Windows applications? That is Microsoft's goal, but it needs two things that are not yet available before it can happen. One is the Enterprise Store, a way for businesses to deliver custom applications through the same mechanism. The other is Project Centennial, which puts desktop applications in a virtual wrapper for Store delivery.Exclusive to Windows 10 is the Edge browser, a reworked Internet Explorer (IE) with a new user interface and legacy baggage removed. Edge is faster and more standards-compliant than IE has ever been, and beats Chrome and Firefox on some benchmarks, though it remains behind on HTML5 standards. This site, for example, scores 402 for Edge versus 336 for IE11, 467 for Firefox, and 526 for Chrome. Microsoft is promising a fast upgrade cycle for Edge and may catch up. The Edge user interface is both clean and designed for touch, and it is worth a try for Windows 10 users.



A unique Edge feature is the ability to annotate web pages with ink or typed notes. Once annotated, you can save the page either to the OneNote notes application, or to a reading list, or as an image for sharing. This could be useful for research notes, though it is hardly a killer feature.Windows 8 confused users by offering two versions of IE, one for Metro and one for desktop. Windows 10 also has two browsers, though for better reasons. Edge lacks extensibility or plug-in support, and some sites work in IE11 but not in Edge. There is therefore an Open in Internet Explorer option in Edge, which Microsoft itself recommends for parts of its Office 365 site.Included in Windows 10 is DirectX 12, Microsoft's latest API for hardware-accelerated graphics. Microsoft claims around a 20% performance increase, which means higher-quality rendering and increased frames per second (FPS), thanks to more efficient use of the graphics processing unit (GPU) and lower-level hardware access.


Cortana is Microsoft's digital personal assistant, featured first in Windows Phone and now coming to PCs in Windows 10. Cortana is not available in the UK, other than by setting your PC to US English. When enabled, Cortana replaces the Search panel. Cortana requires "speech, inking, and typing personalization" to be enabled, as well as location services, which means that all your input will be analyzed as personalization data for Cortana to chew on. Some data is sent to Microsoft as explained here. You can get more fine-grained control over what is sent to Microsoft by disabling Cortana; that is the trade-off.When enabled, Cortana will endeavor to deliver reminders and recommendations according to settings that you can customize in the "Notebook," which represents the data Cortana stores and how it is used. For example, you can set whether or not Cortana shows news stories in her panel, and whether they are local, general headlines, or personal interests.


Cortana is also a voice input agent. You can create appointments, start applications, or perform web searches, for example. Developers can also extend Cortana for their own applications.Privacy-conscious users will disable Cortana, while others will find her fun to demo but of little real use. It makes better sense on a small tablet or phone than on a desktop PC. There is potential here though, both as an assistive technology and for reminders and notifications. Still, with Google Now and Apple Siri also vying for your attention, how many digital assistants does one person need?The Xbox app delivered with Windows 10 supports Xbox Live Streaming, letting you connect to an Xbox One console and play games on your PC. A wired connection is recommended, but streaming also worked well over wireless in our tests. You also need a wired Xbox controller plugged into the PC; I used a 360 controller. If your console is set to instant-on, you can turn it on remotely. What you get is a remote session on the console, allowing you to navigate the dashboard and play games as if you were using it locally. Xbox Live features work as you would expect. Xbox Streaming is a great feature, allowing you to play games when the TV in the living room is in use, for example, or want to try playing close up to the screen on your desk or laptop.


Another Windows 10 feature is cross-device gaming, where a player on a PC plays alongside or against a player on a console. This has been demonstrated by Microsoft using the forthcoming Fable Legends, due later this year.Windows 10 could be better. OneDrive integration is a problem. Windows 8 introduced an elegant system called placeholders, showing the entire contents of your OneDrive in Explorer but only downloading files on demand. Microsoft decided it was confusing and did not always play well with applications, so now you have to select which folders you want to sync, and others are invisible. In mitigation, apps like Office Mobile and Photos can still see what is in OneDrive, even if they are not synced locally. Combine this with confusion over OneDrive for Business – Office 365 storage – and the poor OneDrive for Business client (a new one is in preparation), and you have one feature in Windows 10 that is not yet ready.Another annoyance is inconsistency of design. Some parts of Windows are in the modern style, like the new Settings app, others are in desktop style, and even within the desktop there is plenty of variation, with some ribbon menus, some text menus, and some dialogs that look hardly touched since Windows 3.1 days. Where to find settings is another issue. Search for Touchpad in Settings and you can set a click delay, but most touchpad settings are in the old control panel. On this laptop there is a Synaptics settings app complete with illustrations from Windows 7.



Windows 10 lets you log in with Azure Active Directory, as used in Office 365, but you still need a Microsoft account for some features, so progress here is incomplete.What about stability? Windows 10 has made remarkable progress. Build 10240 appears to be the release build, but patches since its release a fortnight ago have fixed a number of issues. On a modern PC like the Spectre x360 it now seems in good shape, though I noticed some minor anomalies. In general you can expect more problems with UWP apps than with desktop applications.The in-place upgrade to which Microsoft is steering millions of users is risky. The upgrade is designed to offer a way back if it goes wrong, but wise users will also take their own backup before proceeding.Windows will trundle on forever as a legacy operating system, running countless existing business applications, but it cannot progress to become an attractive target for app developers unless Microsoft can persuade users that it is time to move on from Windows 7. Windows 8 failed in that task, and Windows 10 is perhaps Microsoft's last chance to pull its operating system from the legacy hole it is in.This release has been rushed, and there will be anguish in the coming weeks over bugs and failed upgrades, but Microsoft has made great strides in the days leading up to release and its quality now looks reasonable.


Although they are optional, this release does push users strongly towards a Microsoft account, OneDrive, and Office 365, and Cortana will not appeal to the privacy-conscious. It is also important to understand the implications of Windows as a service – if continuous incremental upgrades do not appeal, stay away. Note too that neither the new Start menu nor the revamped taskbar are unequivocally better than their Windows 7 equivalents. There are compromises involved in creating a hybrid operating system.Despite the compromises, this operating system is more coherent than Windows 8, more familiar to Windows 7 users, and you can point to solid reasons for upgrading. Examples would be DirectX 12 and Xbox Live Streaming for gamers, Office Mobile and multiple desktops for productivity, Azure AD log-in for Office 365 users (it is not done yet but it is progress), and high-quality built-in apps for consumers.Review What happens when you lock a group of product engineers from a major PC manufacturer and a team software developers from a separate company together in a room? HP's Spectre x360 does. It's the result of some serious conversations between the lads and lasses at Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft; put simply, if Microsoft made a Surface laptop, it would be a lot like this.


The Spectre comes in two flavours. For £1,099 you can have a Core i7 machine with a 2560 x 1440 display, while for two hundred quid less you can have the Core i5 version with a 1920 x 1080 screen.For your nine hundred nicker you are still getting a reasonably powerful and very stylish machine. From a purely aesthetic standpoint, this is one of the more impressive machines you can pick up for less than a grand.That’s largely down to the unibody aluminium base and somewhat MacBook Air-esque styling. I’m not suggesting it's a direct copy of the Apple machine but several people, on seeing the Spectre on my desk, commented that I don’t usually write about Apple kit. Enough said. The all-silver livery, polished edges and absence of unsightly stickers (other than a silver Intel sticker) add to the impression of quality.Weighing in at 1.51kg and measuring up at 325 x 218 x 16mm the HP is rather heavier and more bulky than Apple’s 13-inch envelope-filler but a side effect of that is that it feels very solid and there is room for a decent array of connections and a sizeable battery.


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