15 reasons why upgrading to Windows 10 Update

Windows 10 1155 build 10586 has been released to the public on November 12. Here are the 15 most important news that could convince users to the rapid transition to the new release.

November 12, Microsoft released the first major update to Windows 10. The operating system ” definitive ” Microsoft comes to version 1511 and is updated to build 10586, with an installation process that requires a few minutes to be brought to completion. The news are mainly under the body, with performance improvements and optimizations in the code, but there are some adjustments on the side of the feature.

Microsoft has outlined four major new features of Windows 10 V. 1511: improvements in performance with boot times by 30% lower than Windows 7, new features of Cortana (especially in the States), improvements on Microosft Edge as the synchronization of content on different devices, and upgrading of many applications available natively operating system. But the news of the release are so many, and there are some that Insiders know for some time.

The list below :

  • Streaming video from Microsoft Edge to an external device : with the new build can transmit a video playing on the Edge to all devices compatible with the standard Miracast or DLNA. It does not work with content protected by copyright (such as Netflix), but great with services like YouTube.
  • New Messages application + Skype : with the update came a new messaging application compatible with Skype. It is currently in beta but already there are nice features, like the ability to directly answer the incoming notifications.
  • Automatic resizing windows : the display of two windows in column (Snap) now you can resize them both at the same time by dragging the cursor in the center of the screen. The windows are resized together as they did previously with the tablet mode.
  • Improvements to Tablet mode : Some features of ” tablets ” were more comfortable on Windows 8. For example, with the previous operating system could replace a window in the display mode ” Snap ” making a swipe from the far left of the display. The feature was absent on Windows 10, but was reintroduce release 1511.
  • Rapid changes to the settings of DPI : with the new build can quickly change the settings on the pixel density, in order to exploit the advantages of different according to different contexts without losing too much time.
  • Windows with title bars colored : now you can set a color also to the title bar of windows applications are not universal.
  • Start Menu broader : the limit of the live tile on the Start menu has been increased from 512 to 2048.
  • New contextual menus : are size and color of context menus have been optimized to improve the user experience and to make it a consistent graphical interface.
  • Memory Manager : A new feature operates in a more appropriate use of RAM operating system, compressing information that are not used for some time but who are still resident in memory. The change should improve the general responsiveness of the systems with quantitative tight to memory.
  • Speed ​​Shift : the new build enables the feature Speed ​​Shift on the new architecture-based processors Skylake. This allows you to change the clock frequency of the processor faster and more frequently, thus increasing the feeling of responsiveness while not increasing the maximum performance of the computer.
  • Nested Virtualization : you can with the new build run virtual machines within other virtual machines. The feature was ironically called “Windows-ception”.

Recall that in the build still missing extensions on Microsoft Edge, awaited news at first but then later quashed. The news will not come before 2016.

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