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Windows 10 is a significant upgrade and the extras are worth a try, especially if you can talk to Cortana. You can put it off for four-to-12 months, when the free upgrade offer ends, or until 2020, when Windows 7 becomes unsupported.” If you only use Windows 7, you will have some relearning to do, but the Get Started app provides a gentle introduction.

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If you use Windows 8 on a tablet with no mouse and keyboard, Windows 10 is optional. Should consumers take the free upgrade? If you use Windows 8 without a touch screen or you’re a gamer, it’s a no-brainer: get it as soon as you can, but back up first of course.

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There is a Microsoft tool to hide or block unwanted driver updates, however. Microsoft intends to continuously upgrade it over time, which the user has no choice about as you can’t turn updates off without becoming unsupported. Windows 10 works well, and didn’t break any of my older Windows software. Cortana is much less fun if you have to type your questions, and if you do, she will only type her replies not talk to you.

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I couldn’t get voice to work on a Surface Pro 3 running the latest version of Windows 10. Photograph: Jack Schofield for the Guardian Edge isn’t finished – it still doesn’t support extensions, for example – but it works very well. Its “show off” feature is that you can write or type annotations onto web pages and email them to people. There’s even a built-in DVR to record your gameplay.įinally, there’s Edge, the new, lightweight, standards-oriented browser developed as Project Spartan.

Microsoft’s DirectX 12 is a huge advance, delivering “a massive improvement in performance on the same hardware” (according to AMD).

Continuum switches between desktop and tablet modes, and will enable future Windows 10 smartphones to work like desktop PCs.

It can import and play your Google Play and iTunes music libraries.

Groove is a new music app/service that replaces Xbox Music.

Multiple virtual desktops are included as standard.

Task View provides an Apple exposé-style view of all running programs at once, though Alt-Tab still works.

It provides notifications and quick access to common settings.

Action Center replaces the loathed Charms bar from Windows 8.

Windows Hello is a new sign-on system, which includes face recognition if you have an Intel RealSense-compatible camera.

The main one is Cortana, the personal assistant already familiar to Windows Phone users, but there are others. Windows 10 also offers some new features to encourage upgrades. Photograph: Jack Schofield for the Guardian Highlights Installation should take 20 to 90 minutes, depends on your hardware. That’s also why it’s a bit of a hybrid, skewed to appeal to the majority of Windows 7 users, while retaining a tablet mode familiar to Windows 8 users. Microsoft hopes to attract a billion users in three years by offering free upgrades to Windows 10 for devices running Windows 7, 8 and 8.1. Obviously, this will depend on how widely adopted Windows 10 becomes. Universal apps will run on all Windows 10 devices and the Xbox One games console, removing the pain of learning different user interfaces for numerous incompatible devices, and making it simpler to share things between them. Windows 10 will run on everything from smartphones to giant servers, via tablets, convertibles, laptops, all-in-ones, desktop PCs and Surface Hubs with 84in screens. “Universal” is the key word for Microsoft’s ambitions. But it will also run new “universal” apps downloaded from the Windows Store, which Microsoft hopes will become a trusted source of traditional Windows desktop programs as well. It’ll run traditional desktop Windows apps, like Windows 7. Windows 10 is a big step towards the Microsoft classic becoming an always-connected operating system for every device, not just PCs, which is continuously updated for free.

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But the question is, should you upgrade for free immediately? Or will it be another Windows 8 moment? M icrosoft’s last version of Windows is finally here: Windows 10 is arguably the best version of the ubiquitous operating system.