02 June 2015

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Know Windows 10 free upgrade Limitations No Cortana for India users

Know Windows 10 free upgrade Limitations No Cortana for India users

Microsoft will release Windows 10, an upgrade to its operating system, on 29 July 2015.

The upgrade will be offered free to users running Windows 7 and Windows 8.1.

The free offer will be available for the first year after it is released.

Following are the limitations or what you will lose when you upgrade to windows 10 operating system

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If you have Windows 7 Home Premium, Windows 7 Professional, Windows 7 Ultimate, Windows 8 Pro with Media Center, or Windows 8.1 Pro with Media Center and you install Windows 10, Windows Media Center will be removed.

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Watching DVDs requires separate playback software

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Windows 7 desktop gadgets will be removed as part of installing Windows 10.

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Windows 10 Home users will have updates from Windows Update automatically available. Windows 10 Pro and Windows 10 Enterprise users will have the ability to defer updates.

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Solitaire, Minesweeper, and Hearts Games that come pre-installed on Windows 7 will be removed as part of installing the Windows 10 upgrade. Microsoft has released our version of Solitaire and Minesweeper called the “Microsoft Solitaire Collection” and “Microsoft Minesweeper.”

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If you have a USB floppy drive, you will need to download the latest driver from Windows Update or from the manufacturer's website.

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If you have Windows Live Essentials installed on your system, the OneDrive application is removed and replaced with the inbox version of OneDrive.

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Cortana is only currently available on Windows 10 for the United States, United Kingdom, China, France, Italy, Germany, and Spain.
This means No Cortana for India users in current upgrade

What is Cortana? Know 8 features of Cortana personal assistant, virtual assistant

With Windows 10, Microsoft is bringing its personal digital assistant, Cortana, to the desktop
Already available on Windows Phone 8.1, Cortana comes to Windows 10 using the same continuum design language

Cortana is referred as She

Features of Cortana –

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You can interact with Cortana by just typing into her search field located on the taskbar

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You can just start talking to her and ask her to write emails

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You can order her to set reminders for you.

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You can even ask her questions if you wanted to, and tell her to stop looking at the information you're handling if it's something private.

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Cortana is also designed to learn what you like over time, meaning that she can offer helpful suggestions for useful apps or perhaps productivity tips.

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She can also translate documents or speech into 25 different languages.

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Cortana also becomes the default search on Windows Phones and Windows 10 desktops—you can simply hit F5 to summon her for this.

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Cortana is more than just a question answering or reminder creation tool: Cortana pops up your Daily Glance, a digest that includes things like sports results for teams you follow, news stories based on your interests, and local weather.

Source – Microsoft

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Tuesday, June 02, 2015

Tags – Windows 10 Limitations Free Upgrade

2 comments:

Destination Infinity June 02, 2015  

Interesting. I hope Windows 10 will have more productivity features than Windows 8.1. Let's see. I just wish they also release a basic version of MS Word and MS Excel for free, along with Win 10. But even otherwise, LibreOffice is there, so no problem :)

Destination Infinity