Everything you need to know about Windows 10

Cortana, multiple desktops and Windows Hello.

One of the major innovations of Windows 10 is the introduction of Cortana. The virtual assistant to Microsoft that we already have seen on Windows Phone peeps on the desktop, with an implementation particularly radical. Unlike other systems currently in circulation, Cortana can draw on evidence of third party applications allowing fuller use of its functionality, and also allows you to carry out all the functions for which it is usually thought of this type of software. Cortana can remember our reminders, set alarms, suggest the daily news, but also respond to our questions disparate.

Drawing on a database of Bing, Cortana will give information on famous people or tell us what was the outcome of a sporting event. It can be solicited through the exclusive use of the voice uttering the words ” Hey Cortana “, and is able to recognize the voice of the computer owner. But to avoid the embarrassment of having to shout in the direction of your computer when you are in public places, Cortana can be used only in text form, becoming more discreet and quiet. As Google Now and Siri on iOS 9, Cortana is an assistant proactive, or will learn to know each other not only with the information that will put, you first run the software, but also according to our habits.

For example, you will learn the journey to work, and every day we will provide information on the traffic or the weather without having the need to be addressed on the subject. The implementation in the language is optimal. We got to try the virtual assistant extensively on Windows 10 on the first and Surface Pro, even if the system informs us that our hardware – the microphone of the 2-in-1 Microsoft – is not designed for use with Cortana, the experience of use has been particularly effective. The trigger for calling attention virtual assistant is always perceived, and voice dictation was always precise enough to be used without having to scan in too-careful words.

Even if you do not have an exemplary diction, the Cortana understands well what we want to tell her, and constantly learn to understand each other in an increasingly reliable. Microsoft’s goal is to make the words of Cortana absolutely indistinguishable from those uttered by a woman in the flesh.

Although most convincing is to Siri that Google Now, in some ways it’s pretty obvious to some ” digitization ” of the words that come out of the speakers. In some places, the syllables are combined in an artificial way, although the quality of the text-to-speech Microsoft is undoubtedly a good standard.

Sometimes the assistant uses a series of sentences preseason: Cortana can sing, for example: although the technology behind this option is not – yet – so futuristic as it might seem at first. Besides being a ” secretary ” earnest and extremely efficient, Microsoft has implemented on Cortana also a collegiate look. Satya Nadella will define as ” The Chief “, and do not pull back if we ask you to sing or tell a joke. When will answer us not seek information about Bing, bringing us back to the Search page using Microsoft Edge, or any other browser set as default.

Here are two other built-in features of Windows 10: multiple desktops and Windows Hello. The first is new recovery directly from desktop operating systems of competition: Mac OS X and Linux on all. With Windows 8 could manage the windows on the screen by assigning them a specific portion of the display: dragging one end, the window began to occupy half of the screen, leaving the space opposite. The same thing could be done with modern app, with the display which could be divided – with some monitors – also in three portions. The window manager is now changed with Windows 10.

The window can be dragged on both the right and the left, but also in one of the corners, thus occupying only one quadrant (for example: in the upper right, or lower left). Navigate between the windows, when they become too many, it can become frustrating and in this case that comes to our aid to support multiple desktops.

Not only do these allow us to select one of the open windows in a quick, but you want to separate the various roles in independent desktops, where we could enter only a few applications that we need to complete a job. Selecting the desktop, there are proposals in the foreground only the windows within it.

We finally Windows Hello, an entire platform that Microsoft has designed to make sure the data on your computer. Through Hello, the car can take advantage of specific hardware to identify the user and provide access to the system.

The peculiarity of the system is Microsoft, which can exploit a wide range of sensors to be able to guarantee a reliable authentication during login, starting from the biometric scan of fingerprints up to the scanning of the iris or of the face. All identification data are then saved locally, so that they cannot finish, through the cloud, in the wrong hands.