Everything you need to know about Windows 10

It is now available to the public Windows 10, the latest operating system from Microsoft, which is not followed by further versions. It is offered free of charge in the first year for all users on Windows 7 and Windows 8.1, and on July 29 will be available exclusively for Insider members. Following the roll-out will be expanded to all the others in a progressive manner.

An OS created by Microsoft and finished by users in sign of gratuity.

Microsoft cannot afford any misstep with Windows 10. The company is recovering from the failure of eight who, even today on the day of the debut of its successor, failed to climb over the market shares of Seven. It took several years to overcome the archaic Windows XP, which is still preferred by many business realities carelessly worldwide.

Windows 10 was designed and developed by Microsoft, but just because you cannot make mistakes you treasured as never before the advice received by the users, who have actively participated in the development of the embryo of the operating system. They were millions Insiders who have contributed to the development, giving advice through the experience with the beta build released publicly.

We can say that Windows 10 is not a completely new product on the date of his release, 29 July 2015, but that many professionals and home users already know him in a particularly thorough. On 1 October 2014, Microsoft released the first technical preview of the operating system, then known as Technical Preview.

All users could participate in the beta program simply by registering on Windows Insider, an element that has granted a successful initiative. It is a move that the company had already implemented with Windows Phone (there called Developer Preview), which brought more than one million users to try out the new software in only a month after his birth. But it was ” the stuff of experts “.

” You must be joking in saying that it is the stuff of experts. So, if you believe that your BIOS is a new type of fuel plant, Technical Preview might not be for you, ” she wrote the company during the presentation of the first beta. Since then the company has requested advice and opinions about the features to be included or omitted, the choices in terms of user experience, the impact of the graphic interface elements, but also basic advice related to the lock screen wallpaper.

Over the months, the finishing works were very many, and difficult to quantify: Microsoft has marked those that would be the main new features of the operating system, but to lay out the user experience were just ordinary users.

A bold new approach on the part of Microsoft, which is unlikely we see practiced by giants of this caliber and reminiscent, with the proper proportions, that of open-source software, in which the community is to write the code. But it is not only the new approach in that of Redmond, since the whole concept behind Windows.

Microsoft chooses to abandon the numerical progression, forgetting 9 to move directly to Windows 10, a number that more than once we have defined as ” more concrete and equity “, which aims to establish and better define a radical change not only in graphical user interface or functionality, but in the basic concept of the SO.

” Windows as a service ” is the goal and wanted to get the new Microsoft led by Satya Nadella, intended as a Windows service. A concept that embraces the mode of operation of the new Microsoft, leaner than elephantine Steve Ballmer and able to juggle multiple categories of product from software and services, up to the hardware, with smartphones, tablets and 2 -in-1. A path that already drew Ballmer, but that reaches its full maturity only with the new CEO, who wants to define himself as a Windows 10 compatible with any ecosystem, and not only as a simple operating system.

Windows 10 will be the last operating system from Microsoft, phrase which actually displaces but defining the new strategy of the company of Redmond, where Windows will receive incremental updates forever and for free: ” There will be no Windows 11 ” , He recalled a few weeks ago by a company spokesman.

This means that after Windows 10, we should not expect any more major release. The updates will come with patience, but will be incremental: think about the next new operating system with an identification number would be wrong, because this will not happen. Windows 10 will be updated just as a service, rather than as a traditional software, and all future upgrades will be offered for free.

Free has been one of the most-used words in the pre-release, as Windows 10 will be offered for free to all users of Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 with licensed in the first year after its debut. But there will be no disruption in the business model of the company, which has already happened with the introduction of various service’s subscriptions.

Moreover, Microsoft aims to monetize with sales to OEMs and not on the sale of various licenses to the final consumer who probably occupy a marginal part of its turnover. The end user will not pay almost no circumstances in the new operating system, and in the first year after its debut, the update will be free for hundreds of millions of users worldwide.

With a move so aggressive, Microsoft aims to results decidedly ambitious for the Windows 10, 1 billion of installations over the next three years.

Start menu, Window applications, Continuum.

Windows 10 is not only an operating system, but an ecosystem potentially compatible with all types of devices on the market. It can be installed both on embedded systems, on tiny objects without display, until you get to the Smart TV or even to Surface Hub, computers with huge display that Microsoft wants to place in the meeting rooms of large companies.

Many of the innovations designed for the new operating system are designed precisely in order to make the user interface accessible on systems very different from each other, and in this category include, for example: the new Start Menu, applications executable in modern window and, specifically, how Continuum.

Personal opinion : Windows 8 is a great operating system with a poor user interface. The problem is that, as the name implies, it just serves to interface with your computer, and if the first approach is negative is unfortunately likely that the comments that follow will be negative. Microsoft has tried to patch up the mistakes made with Windows 8, releasing a 8.1 slightly more rated for use with mouse and keyboard, still the most widely used on desktops, notebooks and 2-in-1.

But it was not enough. Because strategically the company released the news most awaited only with Windows 10, almost forcing you to step – mischievously offered for free – the latest version of the operating system to use them.

The most expected is of course the dear old traditional Start Menu, which is not only a return to the roots – as recently said Nadella – but an interface designed by Microsoft to make a frame to the Store, which the company plans to do the bulk of the turnover in the Windows environment. The Start Menu of Windows 10 on the structure of the old menu of Windows XP, Vista and Seven, but adds obvious connotation’s graphics in the style Modern launched 8.

It is divided mainly into two columns: on the left, we will find shortcuts (customizable) to Explore resources, Control Panel, Documents and applications used or the latest installed; the right column the tile customizable by the user.

The Start menu is still available even though the same size – not too popular on the desktop – Windows 8, that is, the full screen. All thanks to Continuum, proprietary technology from Microsoft that allows you to adapt the interface of the device according to the typology.

This is a feature that becomes more interesting with the hybrid devices – or 2-in-1, if you prefer – you can easily switch between modes automatically based on the input devices connected. For example: if you unplug the keyboard to the tablet form, Windows 10 will notify us of the event asking us if we want to enter the Tablet Mode.

We can choose to do it or continue to use the operating system in the traditional mode, and of course we can ” to remember ” the choice so that each time will link or unlink the device. Windows 10 will perform the same operation. Tablet Mode lets you use the device with an interface very similar to that of Windows 8, with applications to be launched in full screen and with a management of the multi-window very similar. Likewise also the Start Menu, as we wrote above, it will be proposed to the full screen. The option can be changed of course also in a second time, at the discretion of the user.

In the traditional mode applications will be performed either in a window or full screen, and this is perhaps the most interesting feature of Windows 10 in terms of the graphical interface. Both executable’s traditional software in a ” Modern ” are now handled as if they were common windows.

This is a new very pleasant, especially for desktop and notebook users, who can now use apps from the Store a clearly more effective with mouse and keyboard. Native applications are developed for Windows 10 and then vertically, as we have become accustomed to decades of computer history: scrolling Contents are from above to below, and vice versa, as is typical in other platforms.

Windows 8 Microsoft pointed out a strange scroll horizontally, which fortunately seems to have been supplanted entirely on the new release. It is clear that, if you want to bet on the Store must make sure that the contents of the same are usable by the greatest possible number of users, and with Windows 8 this – unfortunately – did not happen.

Universal App and Continuum of smartphones.

Continuum is reflected on many other features of the operating system, or as he prefers to call Microsoft ecosystem. At the base of the function, we find the app universal: to allow applications to dynamically step is indeed necessary that within the same package, we are all assets application. In short, because the user has a chance to have a user experience consistent and without interruption, regardless of the input system adopted, the developer will have to put his hand to the application code so that the code contains all versions within a single package. It is a work of the considerable extent in the initial stages of Windows 10, but in the long run will bring numerous fruits to the entire ecosystem.

The packages will contain a unique code ” core “, basic, and for each type of device will be designed unique features that allow navigation in the app designed ad-hoc. At the base of the new Microsoft, it has developed a unified SDK for all platforms on which Windows 10 is installed, leaving the developer a good degree of flexibility, but at the same time offering a simplified tool to get the result with minimal effort. As well as native ones, the third-party applications will have a graphical interface adaptive, especially like those ” responsive ” of modern websites. Similarly, they will be able to adapt dynamically based on the input device used, differentiating the interface if you are using the mouse or touchscreen.

The developer will have to program a single application, and will be the tools offered by Microsoft to help in the task of making it compatible with virtually all commercially available devices. Porting apps from smartphones to tablet, or even to the desktop, then an operation will be extremely simplified. Microsoft’s goal in this case is very clear, and it has recently admitted the same Nadella: the company knows that to tickle the interest of developers need to have a strong customer base, and users Microsoft, them especially on the desktop. Creating desktop applications that are easily convertible on smartphones, Microsoft also rifocillerà the Store of Windows 10 Mobile.

The Store will be, as explained on the previous page, a Central Point in the experience of the operating system. And also in this case it will be necessary in the sorting correctly the code to devices. Understand as which parts of the code will be useful on a device, download and install only the ones and thus preserving the available disk space. In addition, part of the elements of the SDK are already installed on the operating system and will not need to install any application. Even this will avoid the presence in the disk of more packets substantially identical for each application, optimizing the footprint of the app and eliminating any redundancy of file.

Being the central code of the app universal identical for all versions available, you can get very easily one of the most interesting features of Windows 10: Continuum also on smartphones. If a 2-in-1 by unplugging the keyboard you can dynamically enable the Tablet Mode, if you install the monitor, mouse and keyboard on a smartphone the whole interface becomes very similar to the desktop version to be used with the new connected devices. The company said that in order to use this feature you will need ” new hardware “, but this could change in the coming months, when the development of Windows Mobile 10 will be completed. In addition, it seems that in the current version of Windows 10, this feature is still missing.

It is likely that in early versions of the operating system functionality can have problems, and it is equally likely that Continuum will be refined over time with the arrival of more and more powerful smartphones. It is the first step to make the smartphone a personal computer itself, can be used with mouse and keyboard and interface (both the operating system running the app) that will adapt dynamically to the size of the display, and the adopted devices Installed input. The smartphone will then replace the laptop? Probably not, but with Continuum is designed to ease even further our backpack, even allowing us to leave him at home on many occasions.

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.

Microsoft Edge, which replaces the browser Internet Explorer.

One of the fundamental innovations of Windows 10 is Microsoft Edge, the new web browser that replaces Internet Explorer, for years the solution for the Windows default web browsing. Internet Explorer has not disappeared on the new Microsoft platform, although it is no longer present on the home screen of the operating system. You will then find the taskbar icon with a letter ” e ” that resembles stylized sharply initial Explorer. A smart move by Microsoft that will foster considerably the spread of Edge also exploiting users not too knowledgeable.

But in this case we cannot give wrong Microsoft, since Edge is a huge step forward compared to Internet Explorer, and in the technical structure, which will deepen below, which in the GUI. The new browser incorporates the characteristics of the native applications of the operating system on the style ” Modern “, and uses a number of additional features that enhance the user experience. Edge integrates a read-native, a unique window for bookmarks, history, and the list of downloads, has a button for quick sharing, will support the extensions and feature’s tool design details.

Leveraging a pen stylus, your finger or the mouse, the user can highlight various elements of the page, cut them or make comments and text boxes so as to share certain content without the need to use third-party tools. Noteworthy is also the implementation of Cortana that proactively seek to facilitate web browsing (and spread the use of Bing). Selecting text, you can seek guidance virtual assistant on the subject, which in a specific window, we propose all information in support of a series of links with which to deepen our knowledge.

We can ask information about a character, on a brand or a hypothetical trip, where Cortana will guide us through the offerings of the best airlines, or suggesting the way forward. All without having to leave the browser window or web page, which becomes the central pivot (and only) for browsing on the internet.

Microsoft Edge is founded on the basis of Internet Explorer 11, and maintains the rendering engine, which remains with Trident Chakra, the JavaScript engine owner. At the same time, the new browser is significantly leaner than IE11, with much of the old code is deleted to make room exclusively for the new features of the web. Precisely for this reason Microsoft could not erase completely the presence of IE on Windows 10, which can be useful (for example: to business realities) if you are looking backward compatibility with older Web technologies.

Thanks to the work of optimization, the performances of Edge are, according to Microsoft, extremely higher than those of Internet Explorer 11, and also higher than those of Chrome and Firefox. Edge has been a fundamental and indispensable step for Microsoft, which was to provide its users with a consumer web browser able to meet the needs of the modern Internet. A step that could not be done with Internet Explorer, as eliminating all the features old and largely obsolete would take away the opportunity for many business realities – who continue to use those technologies obsolete – to access their contents.

As a result, we will have two browsers on Windows 10 in some ways similar, but for others with an approach at odds: one voted in the companies, the other to total modernity. When you first start Microsoft slap on the main screen only Microsoft Edge, and it is your responsibility to go to fish out Internet Explorer 11 in the depths of your hard-disk. Edge is the native solution, the default browser, and is to occupy a role that IE maintained for years and years, so sometimes a little inglorious.

Each new Edge has been accompanied by the search for maximum security. For example, for phishing attacks, or fake sites or links disguised as well-known services that actually lead to web pages with malicious purpose, Microsoft introduced passport, a service password management that protects them with the technologies of asymmetric encryption same operating system. Edge is also a Universal Windows app, and this changes substantially the way the software manages the processes and content, which are made all within the sandbox. It is a feature already available on IE7 with the so-called Protected Mode, and which are an evolution of IE10 (with Enhanced Protected Mode). Surfing the sandbox is always active on Edge, and not only proposed as an option.

This allows you to create separate experiences for each open tab in the browser, not allowing the exploitation of a vulnerability in the browser to access resources outside the tab itself. Edge also operates a 64-bit (hardware permitting), an element that allows more effective implementation of ASLR (Address Space Layout Randomization), and makes it more difficult to run malicious code by exploiting a security flaw. In all this will have an essential task SmartScreen technology, which controls the level of reliability of the contents of a page based on a system of certificates, in turn, based on new safety standards W3C and IETF.

Another common practice that Microsoft wants to fight with Edge is the exploitation of memory corruption in access to sensitive parts of the system. Microsoft claims that programs developed in C/C++ are particularly susceptible to this type of attack because they do not offer any kind of security in these cases. Edge instead exploit some measures comeMemGC (Memory garbage collector) and CFG (Control Flow Guard), continuously monitoring what happens in the memory occupied by the browser.

Windows 10 for the gamer: DirectX 12.

The launch of Windows 10 is also eagerly awaited by players, given that correspond to the launch of DirectX 12. Thanks to dynamic call to the video system, the DirectX 12 promise a benefit performance sensitive, particularly with that capable hardware to function. All this will give developers more control over the computing resources available, enabling them to manage the functions that were previously assigned to the driver and the operating system. If with DirectX 11 graphics operations are operated with a single queue, the DirectX 12 will be able to schedule tasks independently and set priorities.

This principle, which is defined Asynchronous Shader, is the basis of all modern API, and also of Mantle and Vulkan, and of course DirectX 12. It is a setting that can bring a number of important advantages, in From lower latencies and greater speed in rendering frames and then response times lower. All this will allow the system to optimize calls to the video subsystem, leveraging in a better way the whole potential of the GPU.

Underlying the functioning of Asynchronous Shader units are the compute-type engine, or rendering engines physically present on the GPU. To take advantage of the new technologies of asynchronous tasks and prioritization in the future we will see increasing numbers of Asynchronous Compute Engine installed on the GPU.

The new APIs also, thanks to technology Tiled Resources, will be able to make a distinction between the portions of the texture immediately necessary, and which are less urgent. Only the first will be well placed in the GPU memory, optimizing its operation. Tiled resources breaks the texture in small portions and processes first only those portions that are urgently needed, allowing developers to offer a greater visual detail using less memory.

As for the new rasterization conservative, then, it is a more accurate method in determining if a pixel is covered by a triangle or less, thought to increase the quality and accuracy at the expense of performance. In the traditional rasterization a pixel is covered if a specific part of the pixels, as the center of the pixel itself according to the illustration above, corresponds to the triangle. With the rules of conservative rasterization, instead, a pixel is considered covered by the triangle if any part of it matches any of the parts of the triangle. This will allow developers to offer more accurate visualizations: think, for example: to the shadows created by a ray-traced. Being able to determine more accurately the edges of these surfaces are obtained shadows with less aliasing.

Turning to the most trivial, in Windows 10, there is also the new Xbox app, which allows you to interface with friends who use the Xbox ecosystem, so even Xbox One. You can check what your friends are playing, chat, recording goals and share them with clips of the game. The app also enables the Xbox multiplayer function on multiple devices, or you can play online against users of Xbox One. The first game to support this feature will be Fable Legends.

Game DVR functionality, now available with Windows 10, allows you to record the game with the new bar game. Clips can be edited and perfected as you see fit, then share them with friends through the many systems that the PC provides.

But the most important feature allowed by the new app is the possibility of playing PC games tried to Xbox One. It streams is obviously managed by the Wi-Fi network and then allows to play while sitting in front of the PC and using the controller of Xbox One, already compatible with the PC. In this regard, Microsoft has already confirmed that it intends to make Xbox One compatible mice and keyboards to extend the possibilities for interfacing.

Minimum requirements for Windows 10.

Windows 8 was from the beginning a software base light and very responsive even with low-end machines capable. With that operating system, Microsoft had reversed away of working that adopted for some time now, with software that required from version to version always more performing hardware and quantities of system memory higher. From this point of view, Microsoft takes the same approach had with Windows 8, with the system specifications of the two machines that do not differ much. Indeed, the new version can also be integrated on embedded systems without display through an even more streamlined developed ad-hoc.

The same company from Redmond has released the minimum specifications of the new operating system. This information intended primarily for hardware manufacturers, so they can get an idea of the basis for selecting the minimum hardware to implement on their future cars and ensure compatibility with Windows 10. Placing minimum hardware also can Microsoft provide constant updates to that machine’s operating system and user experience in line with the expectations of society itself. In this context, give a reading on the requirements of Windows 10 on the official Microsoft can make us understand what the technical specifications of the low-end of the coming months.

Windows 10 will be available in eight versions: Windows 10 Home, Windows 10 Pro, Windows 10 Enterprise, Windows 10 Mobiles, Windows 10 IoT Mobile, Windows 10 IoT Enterprise, Windows Server, Windows 10 IoT Core. The list below (which we translate freely from Microsoft, explain specifically which devices will be installed (or can be installed) the individual versions.

• Windows 10, for desktop editions (Home, Pro and Enterprise) : designed for traditional PC systems that offer a typical desktop. These versions are able to run Win32 applications (.exe files for instance), Windows applications and universal existing applications from the Windows Store.
• Windows 10 Mobile : designed for mobility (primarily smartphones). It can run Windows application’s universal and existing applications from the Windows Store.
• Windows 10 IoT Mobile : edition built for enterprise devices that require flexibility in the design phase, life cycles, long-term and enable companies to manage platform updates. In this version apply many of the minimum on Windows Mobile (unless otherwise noted).
• Windows 10 IoT Core : designed for CPU ARM, x86 and x64, which enables the construction of small systems and economic support Universal App.
• Windows 10 IoT Enterprise : edition of Windows 10 IoT Core Industry desktop that supports advanced features, Windows desktop applications and devices compatible with the industry standard, large tablet and desktop computers.
• Windows Server Technical Preview : designed and optimized for use on the server.

Each version of the operating system of course will be suitable for a particular type of device. Windows 10 will naturally Mobile on smartphones and tablets (the exact definitions can be found on the link that we have placed on the page) with 32-bit ARM processors, but also for the first time on Windows mobile devices with x86 processors. Support for ARM processors in 64-bit and x64 was assured only on the tablet that will adopt the version of Windows 10 Desktop. However, one should consider that all processors are backward compatible with 64-bit applications to 32-bit, then you can find smartphones and tablets with the latest processors available on the market.

Windows 10 desktop will instead be installed on both x86 and x64 devices of various types: laptop, 2-in-1, all-in-one desktop PC traditional. All thanks to Continuum that, thanks to an interface fully scalable, able to adapt to the best of various types of systems. Windows Server will be installed instead of course on the server, while the variants IoT devices embedded SoC with ARM 32-bit, and SoC processors and x86 and x64. In this version, it is not necessary for the use of a dedicated display for proper operation. Below is a table showing the minimum requirements of the various versions of the new operating system (a full version can be found on the page of the minimum operating system on the official Microsoft).

Let’s focus on the desktop: with regard to processors, Microsoft ensures full compatibility with all CPU and SoC that are compatible with the x86 instruction set and x64, support PAE, NX, and SSE2, and the 64-bit supporting technologies CMPXCHG16b, LAHF / SAHF, and PrefetchW. With respect to the internal memory, you need 2 GB of RAM for the 64-bit, but just only 1 GB for 32-bit installations. In terms of storage, the first will require a minimum of 20 GB, while the 32-bit 16 will be enough.

PC to install Windows 10 you will have a monitor that supports SVGA resolution (800 x 600 pixels) at 32-bit, with a GPU at least DirectX 9. The device will necessarily have a connectivity solution that is wired or wireless. There are restrictions also with regard to the physical buttons present on the machines, especially for devices that Microsoft ascribed to the category of the tablet and keyboard with detachable: these will have to have the keys for the management of the volume, while the keys dedicated to the Start Menu and to block the rotation will be installed at the manufacturer.

They are not in any way supported the buttons Back and Research, as well as a physical button to execute the snap of a photo. However, we have already seen some devices that have the key to activate Cortana keyboard, to access the server voice as quickly as possible.