Windows 10 Final Release Review

After months of testing windows 10, finally it is here, you can use it with any device (phone, tablet, desktop, and much more), Almost people can upgrade to it free, but what is the better upgrade or not?!

Here we will take a quick look about Windows 10 New Features, exactly I will talk about the following …

Windows 10 Start Menu.
New Feature Cortana.
The Task View.
Snap Assist.
Microsoft Edge Browser.
Unified Settings and Control Panel.
Action Center and Continuum.

Windows 10 Start Menu

Startup Menu was missing when Windows 8 was released and was replaced with the start screen. Start Menu is back with Microsoft Windows 10, the left side of the menu have a nice look as it was in Windows 7, and you can easy access your installed applications. The right side looks like Windows 8 start screen. In fact they are separated sections, you can change the size make it narrower or wider, also you can change how it look by driving a tile up or down to customize it for your needs.

In the left side, you can get easy access to …

Most used Applications.
Recently Added Applications.
File Explorer.
Settings.
Power Options.
All Applications.

Windows 10 New Feature CORTANA

In Windows 10 Microsoft put over CORTANA, it is a voice control digital assistant, it appeared first in Windows phone. CORTANA can be used for everything from performing simple searches on both your computer and the web to get your Reminders, Appointments, and Signing Emails, CORTANA can recognize your voice and can answer your questions uses information from Bing such as …

Local news
Sports news
Finance news
Traffic Conditions
Weather Conditions
Flight Status and etc.

You can find Cortana in the taskbar next to the start menu button, the first time you click it you get a quick introduction about what Cortana is and what can it do.

Windows 10 Task View Feature

Windows 10 includes a new virtual desktop feature called Task View, it is really useful for someone who running multiple windows or applications, and especially if you often switch between projects and tasks running. Task View is able to get all the related windows and apps running into separated virtual desktops, so if you need to switch from one task to another just click on one of the virtual desktops.

You can find the Task View bottom in the taskbar next to Cortana, just click on it and if you have applications or windows running you will see task view minimized and collected them together. In the right bottom corner you can see the add new desktop option, just click on it and add new desktops, then you can add each related apps and windows into separated desktop, just click on the window, drag and drop it into the new virtual desktop.

Windows 10 Snap Assist Feature

Let’s take a look about new feature Snap Assist, it was actually introduced in windows 7. It also took a place in windows 8 and reintroduced in windows 8.1. Now it much improved in windows 10, Snap is a simple window management feature that let you arrange, maximize and minimize open windows, simply by dragging them to the different edges of the screen. It is really useful and awesome when you need to view two windows side by side, just drag one to one side of the screen and click on the other one. Simply to test it do the following …

Click (Ctrl+N) to open a new window
Repeat (Ctrl+N) to open more windows
Click on the address bar of one of the windows
Drag it to any of the screen edges or the corners and see what will happen

Microsoft Edge Browser

Microsoft finally decided to replace Internet Explorer with a new browser called Microsoft Edge in Windows 10, Edge is the default browser of windows 10. It uses XML feed to get the news from different networks in it default page. You can find it by going to the start menu and choose all apps, in the right side of start menu you may find it too or by defaults it pinned on the taskbar next to view task button. It is a completely new developed browser for windows 10, it is pretty good and fast for use, but for people who use third-party add-ons I think they need to use another browser until Microsoft allow third-party add-ons in the next updates.

Unified Settings and Control Panel

Microsoft made it easy to access the settings and control panel in windows 10, in fact, Settings window and control panel are separated.

To open the settings window …

Click Start
Click on Settings

To open the Control Panel window …

Right Click on Start menu Button
Choose Control Panel

Action Center and Continuum

Windows 10 Action Center and Mail Window

With the new Action center you can easily get notifications when you get a new message on your mail, you can find the Action center right in taskbar, if signed in your mail, simply click on the Action Center icon and if you have new message you are going to find notification in the Action Center, just click on it and a new mail window will open which gives you easy access and manage you mail.

Continuum

Last Windows 10 Feature is called Continuum, in fact, it is active only for touchscreen devices, but you can test it on your desktop, simply go to Action Center and click on Tablet mode, to switch between apps just touch your screen and swap to right or left. Start menu in Continuum looks as it was in windows 8, if you want to go back to desktop mode just go to action center again and deactivate the tablet mode.

Final Words

Finally this is a quick Windows 10 review, to know more about it just follow us, soon we will provide free tutorials on how to work with windows 10 and its New Feature in details.

So after this review, I think windows 10 will be good for me, what about you?!
You can watch the full review on youtube: Windows 10 Final Release Review