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Windows 10 Preview now includes Cortana (and more)

01/23/2015 at 2:54 PM by Brad Linder 11 Comments

Microsoft has released a new preview of Windows 10 to members of the Windows Insider Program, and it includes some of the new features the company unveiled at an event earlier this week.

Among other things, the latest Windows 10 Technical Preview includes Microsoft’s Cortana personal assistant software, the Continuum feature that lets software automatically transition from laptop to tablet mode when you detach a 2-in-1 tablet from its keyboard dock.

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Other new features include an updated Start Menu which lets you expand the menu to full-screen whether you’re using a tablet or not, a new Settings app which combines features that had previously been separated into Windows 8.1 Settings and the Control Panel, improved support for connecting to Miracast and Bluetooth devices, an updated Windows Store app, new Photo and Maps apps, and a new Xbox app that brings many gaming features that had previously been available to Xbox game console users to Windows gamers.

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Cortana integration is probably one of the biggest, most noticeable changes. You can tap a microphone icon to ask your PC questions, set reminders, or access other Bing content. There’s also support for using “Hey Cortana” as a hotword, allowing you to trigger Cortana using just your voice.

Some features, such as the new Spartan web browser aren’t ready yet, but should be coming in future Windows 10 preview builds.

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If this is your first time installing a Windows 10 preview, you can sign up for the Windows Insider Program and download a disc image. If you’re already using an earlier build, you can use the Windows Update tool to search for a new preview.

Pre-release builds of Windows are available for free, and Microsoft will make Windows 10 available as a free upgrade for anyone using Windows 7 or later… at least for the first year after Windows 10 is launched.

via Blogging Windows

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I already see the pranks we’ll pull 2016: a guy walks into a Starbucks where many hipsters are fiddling with their notebooks and suddenly screams “Hey, Cortana! New search: midget porn, safe search off, open first 100 results in new windows! Set volume to 100%!” and runs off as chaos ensues.

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Yeah, poor M$ doesn’t look like the sharpest tool in the shed to make this kind of “advanced” things work in a foolproof mode.

Next thing u know, Cortana might want a divorce where she gets half of your precious data to go live with some other guy in Discontinuum. 😀

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To their defense I think all Google Glass users had this kind of experience at one point…

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Some of the videos I’ve seen of Hey Cortana! on the phones seem to indicate that it learns and responds mostly only to your voice.

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Cortana only responds to the person who trained it on the active user profile.

Nice thinking though.

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Oh, come on! Ruin my fun, will you? 😀

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This site really draws in the Microsoft haters.

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Should I be concerned about being snookered into a subscription OS?
We have 3 PCs in the house, all Win 7 and two of them are for gaming amost exclusively.

I don’t want to get left behind but I’m also afraid of MS knowing that and attempting to leverage it into monetization of my ass.

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You get a free upgrade for a year to Windows 10. If you decide you want it after then, you have to pay.

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I read it on Ars that you get the new license indefinitely: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/01/windows-10-free-for-all-windows-8-1-and-windows-7-users-for-first-year/

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Not for the base install (Windows is now a service), and not right away, but inevitably monetization will come at some point.

It’ll depend on adoption rate. If fast/widespread adoption, monetization will be come sooner and be more aggressive. If tepid adoption, then MS will continue to dangle the freebies to boost the userbase. It’ll also depend on competition. If Android, say, has freebie wazzit, then said wazzit will be free on Windows as well.

The more services MS can get you to use, the wider latitude it’ll have for monetization. OneDrive for example will have a “premium” component. XBox streaming, Cortana, etc, are all viable venues to go premium. First though MS will need to make them good enough for people to depend on them for daily use. It won’t be easy.

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