Inventory Win10 is better than Win8

1. Start menu return

Of course, the Windows 10 start menu is not the same as the start menu that you have been used to, more like the Windows 7 start menu and The combination of the Windows 8 start screen is full of Live Tiles and Windows Store applications. Some reviews suggest that the Windows 10 Start Menu is more like a dashboard than a launcher.

In any case, the start menu did return. If you don't catch a real-time block on the full screen, you can take them all down and then put some shortcuts to the traditional desktop software for the start menu.

2. Windows Store Application Improvements

The absence of the Start Menu is just one of the many major mistakes in Windows 8. The design of the Windows Store app is another mistake.

These ugly things have abandoned all the beauty of desktop computing to satisfy the touch-friendly slogan. Once opened, the Windows 8 app expands to fill the entire screen and even engulfs the taskbar. To make matters worse, they used all these spaces in exchange for amazing inefficiencies, leaving a lot of unused space for placing huge, blank bars, resulting in a lack of information density and a lot of unnecessary scrolling of the mouse.

Fortunately, these situations will no longer appear on Windows 10.

On Windows 10, Microsoft plugged these Windows Store apps into multiple, mobile, and resizable desktop windows, allowing users to integrate these applications more seamlessly into their own In the workflow. The hidden Charms bar is gone, instead of a suitable menu bar, and the new "unified" Windows app gives a more natural feel.

3.Metro integration comprehensive improvement

In Windows 10, the Metro interface achieves a more seamless integration.

Although in Windows 8, the desktop and Metro are like two incompatible interfaces, but now Windows 10 has become complementary to each other, largely because of the improved Windows Store application just mentioned. Program and start menu regression. Abandoning the bad Charms bar is also a solid step in the right direction.

4. The right device with the right interface

If you are using a Windows 10 Phone or a tablet, you can only forget the benefits mentioned above. A modified version of Windows 10 to display an interface that best fits each screen size. In fact, the Windows 10 tablet mode looks very much like the Windows 8 start screen.

Microsoft tried to market Windows 8 as an operating system for all devices, but the company tried to force the tablet and PC to use the same interface. Windows 10 slightly adjusted this equation, let the PC continue to do the PC, and let the tablet continue to be a tablet. This strategy is more conducive to the system.

5. DirectX 12

Not all improvements made by Windows 10 are focused on putting a band-aid on Windows 8's poor design. With the introduction of DirectX 12, Microsoft hopes to attract players who stick to Windows 7 to Windows 10. DirectX 12 can be considered a turbo version of Windows' popular image API technology.

DirectX 12, like AMD's Mantle, can dramatically increase CPU utilization in game scenarios and give developers a deeper understanding of graphics hardware. As a result, Intel and Microsoft announced that the same application runs at DX12 with a frame rate that is more than 50% higher than when running DX11, which in turn can say that energy consumption can be reduced by 50%.

6.Virtual Desktop

Windows 8 treats the Windows desktop as another application. Windows 10 brings more desktops to users through a new virtual desktop technology.

Windows 10 has no limit on the number of supported virtual desktops, and can reach the limit of hardware processing. Users can manage individual desktops and applications on the desktop through Windows 10's very smooth Task View.

Virtual desktops can bring a lot of convenience, especially if the user doesn't have multiple monitors. Users can use one desktop for social tools, one for work applications, and the third for PC games, so users won't be distracted by other apps when they're working hard.

7. More useful user tips

Windows 10 adds more intimate usage tips, from display adjustments to greatly improved command prompts (copy, paste) to screen four The corners show four different windows.

8. Operations Center

Windows 8 Windows Store apps may not be too smooth to use, but one of the key advantages is surprising to many people, that is, notifications throughout the system. If the user receives a new email or if there is new activity in the Weibo account, the Windows Store app will pop up a notification in the upper right corner of the screen to remind the user.

However, if the user does not pay attention, this notification will disappear forever and will not appear or display again. Of course, in theory, users can view missed notifications through real-time tiles on the start screen of each application, but who will stay in that interface?

Windows 10 has a new Action Center to solve this problem, which is located on the right hand side of the taskbar. Missed notifications will remain there until the user revokes them. In the operation center, users can also find some shortcut keys to quickly manage WiFi, Bluetooth, and enter tablet mode.

9. Cortana Voice Assistant

The search function of Windows 8.1 has collected information from the Internet through the help of Bing, but the results are usually some useless web search. . Without third-party software, users have no way to quickly search on the desktop.

The voice assistant Cortana first appeared on Windows Phone 8.1, and now has replaced the search function in Windows 10 and offers a high quality experience that is completely better than Windows 8.1 search. First, Cortana's search bar is on the right side of the desktop taskbar - this is a huge improvement.

Cortana is also driven by Bing, but uses machine learning to provide a personalized summary of the calendar details and news that she thinks you will be interested in. Cortana can handle voice commands as easily as text instructions, and also understand natural language instructions. For example, you can ask Cortana to "find photos from June" and the assistant will even display the files you have stored in OneDrive in the results. Simply put, Cortana is great - if you don't mind giving your personal information to Microsoft.

10. Windows Hello

Windows 8 has common authentication options - PIN code, password, etc. In other words, although nothing worse, there is no surprise.

Windows 10 takes things to the next level: Added support for two-factor authentication and biometric authentication, the most prominent of which is the Windows Hello feature, which uses a depth-sensing camera to automate users. Unlock.

MarkWorld's Mark Hachman, after testing the Windows Hello feature, made the following comment:

"Hello is very good, you just need to let the PC camera face you. You can 'train' the machine in a matter of seconds. After that, if you sit in front of the PC, it will recognize you and automatically log in to your account - you don't need any effort. If you share a PC with your family, It also recognizes them, automatically logs in to their account, and reverts to their pre-departure state."

Face recognition is not new, but Hello's features sound very special. But unfortunately, when Windows 10 was officially launched, this feature was only available for a small number of PC models.