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Desktop
- Task view has been added
- Suppport for multiple desktops
- Task view replaced the App Switcher
- Windows Apps apps now can run on the desktop
- Aero Snap has been updated
- You can now snap up to 4 windows
- When you snap a window and resize it, then snap another window to the other side, it will fill up the left screen instead of half the screen
- When snapping an app, Windows will prompt a overview of other running apps to snap along with Snap Assist
- Windows Apps now can create a shortcut on the desktop or any ohter folder
- You can now pin the Recycle Bin to the taskbar
- You can now scroll in windows by pointing the cursor to it
- When used on a touch enabled device, the icons in the notification area have more space
- Windows has a new iconset
- You can now choose to display all active apps from all desktops in the taskbar, or only the apps that are on the current desktop
- The Action Center icon has been added to the taskbar
- There is now a search bar and Task View button on the taskbar by default
- Multiple animations have been altered
- There are new default wallpapers
Start
- The start menu has been added with support for Live Tiles
- Continuum is now available
- The Start grid has been improved
- The Start screen grid now scrolls vertically
- Tiles no longer use a gradient and border
- It is now possible to resize the start menu
- It's now possible for Windows Apps to have a tile color that matches the accent color
- Tiles for Win32 apps no longer take a color based on the icon of that tile, but follows the accent color
- The start menu now can be made transparent
- Support for jumplists
- You can now click on a letter to show all letters and navigate faster
- You can now pin tiles by draging apps from the "All apps" list to the start screen
- You can now put the PC to sleep with the power button in start
- Folders now have an arrow to indicate that they contain a dropdown
- Recently installed apps are now displayed on the top of the all apps list
- Tiles can now be changed (format, etc) with touch, similar to Windows Phone
Interface
- The Windows interface has been redesigned
- Dialogs in WinRT are now windowed
- The Charms bar has been removed
- The start button now has a smaller Windows logo and a new hover design
- When clicking on the network icon, a new window shows up to manage your connection
- The battery status popup has been updated
- The login screen has been redesigned
- Loading screens for Restarting, Shutting down, etc. have been redesigned
- The taskbar is now dark by default
- You can now enable and disable the color of the taskbar and startscreen
- There is a new calendar fly-out for the system tray
- The notification center now takes on the color you've choosen for windows and the taskbar
- Windows no longer take on a color and are now always gray
- Properties windows have received a visual update
Features
- Action Center
- The Action Center has been added
- You can now change quick settings in the Action Center
- Notifications now can contain actions
- A swipe from the right now opens the Action Center
- Quick settings can now contain more settings
- Notifications have received a new design
- Cortana has been added
- Windows + C now opens Cortana instead of the Charms bar
- OneDrive now uses selective sync, no more Smart Files
- The virtual keyboard now shows AutoComplete suggestions
- It's easier to connect to wireless audio and video devices
- ALT+TAB now opens a view that's merged with the Task View
- Classic Calculator has been removed
- Backup & restore has been readded from Windows 7
- "Play to" has been renamed "Cast to Device"
- Command prompt
- Standarized key shortcuts
- Selecting text is now possible
- Past from clipboard is now possible
- Text wrap can be altered on resize
- Leading zeros can now be trimmed in selections
- You can alter the opacity of the window between 30 and 100 procent
- Touch gestures on a touchpad are now build in and universal across all Windows devices
- Improvements to multi monitor support have been made
- "System compression" has been added to Disk Cleanup as a new option
- You can now choose the default folder for File Explorer
- You can now print to PDF natively
- Windows Hello
- Support for loging in with face recognition
- Support for loging in with fingerprints
- Support for loging in with eye scan
- "Passport" will replace passwords
- Win32 apps can no longer ask to change the default app for any file format and have to use the methode used by Windows Apps
- You can now install apps from and move apps to an SD card
- Context menus now have a touch-friendly design when using a touch screen (and a redesign in general)
- The Text Input canvas has been improved
File Explorer
- Home is the new default location
- An "Add to favorites" button has been added under "Start" in the ribbon
- An "Share" button has been added under "Share" in the ribbon
- You can now share files from within the File Explorer with compatible Windows Apps
Microsoft Edge
- Microsoft Edge is the new default browser, replacing Internet Explorer
- You can now draw on web-pages
- Comments can now be added to web-pages (like Office)
- Reading Mode is now build-in for desktops
- Reading List is now build-in
- Cortana is now build-in
- Support for HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript (ECMAScript 2015) has been improved
- Support for HTTP/2 has been added
- You can now find your downloads in the download manager
- You can now open Internet Explorer from within Edge
- The "Add to" dialogue has been improved
- You can now save PDFs you opened in the browser
- Improved performance for the Chakra Javascript-engine
- Public Suffix List is now used for interoperable Top Level Domain parsing
- Experimental Features Dashboard has been added under about:flags
- There is a new Internet Explorer-like New tabs page
- There is a new MSN.com-like New tabs page
- Pages that are using sound now show this in their tab
- The User Agent String has been altered
- F12 developer tools
- New and improved Network Tools
- HTML and CSS Pretty Printing support
- Async Callstacks for Events and Timers
- Sourcemaps for Styles and in the Memory Profiler
- Find references and Go To Definitions
- And many other changes
Touch
- Touching a textbox in the desktop will now auto start the onscreen keyboard
- Swiping down from the screens edge will show an apps titlebar
- Win32 apps now also use gestures
- When tablet mode is enabled, the Windows, Search/Cortana and Task view icons get bigger (the actual icons, not just the space arround them)
- The taskbar is now always visible by default
Technologies
- Build-in mkv-file support
- Build-in hvec-file support
- System-wide support for the FLAC & ALAC audio formats
Installation
- The installation and OOBE UI have been updated
- The installation now shows a percentage that is a total of the full installation, rather then a percentage for each step
- Cortana, Edge, Groove and other apps now gets introduced during installation
- It's now more clear how to make a new Microsoft Account, or how to use a local account
Build-in apps
And futher
- The Windows kernel major version number changed from version 6.3 to 10.0
- IE is no longer a default pinned item on the taskbar and is replaced by "Project Spartan"'s globe icon
- Support for the Persian calendar
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