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Podcast 1518: Who’s Afraid of Windows 10?

Podcast 1518: Who’s Afraid of Windows 10?

May 9, 2015 | Comments Off on Podcast 1518: Who’s Afraid of Windows 10?

 

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Show Notes

Hour 1: Who’s Afraid of Windows 10? Ready or not here it comes!

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Microsoft aims to have Windows 10 on 1 billion devices.  Will yours be one of them?

Shane Hamelin, CompuQuest Tech ExpertShane Hamelin works at CompTech Services in Sterling Heights, MI and day by day he deals with the complaints and fears about changing from aging, broken down, corrupted Windows XP machines to new computers often because of the horrible reputation that Windows 8 has justifiably earned.

In today’s show,  Shane and his fellow tech experts Gary Baker, Ed Rudel and Cal Carson  tackle some of the big issues that may determine Microsoft’s future:

Getting over the fear of windows 8

Learning to love Windows 10…it will be everywhere!

The Cloud? What is it, why is it important.

Microsoft Doubleheader

In the last 30 days Microsoft has held two conferences that are potentially the key to their future.

 

BUILD

The Build Conference, San Francisco, CA

Like WWDC for Apple and the Google I/O Conferences, this was Microsoft’s pitch to developers to get them designing applications that would take full advantage of the new …


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4 new things we learned about Windows 10 from Microsoft Build 2015 – CNET

4 new things we learned about Windows 10 from Microsoft Build 2015 – CNET

May 4, 2015 | Comments Off on 4 new things we learned about Windows 10 from Microsoft Build 2015 – CNET

by   @jparkerCNET /April 29, 2015 11:18 AM PDT

As expected, Windows 10 got some face time at Microsoft’s Build 2015 event in San Francisco, and Joe Belfiore took the stage to go over several of its newest features.

Belfiore brought attention early to how Windows 10 is bringing back the Aero Glass theme fromWindows 7, showing that good ideas from the past have not been forgotten.

But what received a greater crowd reaction was the updated Windows 10 version of the Start menu. Removed in Windows 8, the new OS will bring back the Start Menu in the lower left corner, but will also show live tiles to the right of the regular functions as a way to keep both interfaces intact.

A new function dubbed Windows Spotlight gives your lock screen a dynamic, regularly updated background with personalized information and fancy wallpaper images. You can interact with elements in the background and it works as a reminder for Windows services you may not have tried. For example, Spotlight will identify apps and features you haven’t used yet, such as the Surface stylus, and offer up a lock screen advertisement of sorts for an app such …


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