All that we now know about Windows 10

First of all, Windows 10 will be free. This was announced at the last presentation of the company. Upgrade will be able to all owners of licensed copies of Windows 7 and 8.1. If before you had a non-genuine version of OS - the miracle did not happen, it will remain such.

The second significant change was the end of the era of Internet Explorer. Unhurried and virtually unsupported browser Internet community will replace the product at a similar engine, codenamed Project Spartan. In addition to improving the image of the staff running the browser, it is intended to be universal for all types of devices and add synchronization between them. In addition, Spartan will be a special social networking read mode with the ability to change the font, background, and save articles for reading deferred. The very same IE will not disappear, and will exist for technical needs.

In order to simplify the process of changing a Mac owners, and simply optimize the management of the system by using the touchpad, in Microsoft

announced 10 new gestures, among which you will find familiar to OS X two-, three- and chetyrohpaltsevye manipulation. They are convenient to manage voice assistant, switch between virtual desktops and run the Action Center.

Besides the disastrous browser, the company decided to replace the standard means of protection for your desktop. Login now be using facial recognition, fingerprint scans, or iris. The technology is called Windows Hello.

In order to authenticate to the external service was presented Passport platform. It will not be stored passwords. Services that support the new technology will allow to log in directly using Windows Hello biometric data. According to Microsoft, some of the popular sites and applications are ready to work with Passport. Naturally, along with it will continue to exist and the usual scheme of the text password.

Optimizing Windows 10 allowed developers to the new operating system to reduce its size to 1.5 GB in the case of the 32-bit version of the system, and 2 GB - 64-bit. And, more significantly, Windows 10 get rid from a separate recovery partition, which will save up to an additional 12 GB of disk space.

In addition, in Microsoft shifted the timing and release. Typically, users receive an update in September or October, and now Windows 10 will be available this summer. And given all the improvements, it is possible that the novelty naturally repeat the success of Windows 7 and XP.