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The start menu of Windows 10 – MICROSOFT
Philippe Berry

The people wanted to start a menu and a windowed mode, Microsoft listened. Windows 10, freely available since Wednesday in both “technical preview” so performs a controlled after the excesses of Windows 8 after daily use coaster, the verdict is emerging: the OS itself as a modern evolution of Windows 7 . Efficient and predictable

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The good: The merger of both worlds

Windows 8 OS was a schizophrenic with duplicates galore between the classical world and “Metro”. It’s over. Windows 10 provides a single desktop, and start menu is back. The left side is similar to that proposed for XP. It is enriched by the right colored tiles of its programs and apps preferred. Bonus, turn off his PC is done in two clicks.

Windows 10 improves some good ideas from the previous version. The “snap” magnetize now allows up to four windows on the edges of the screen vis-à-vis. The adapted the storage can also play to their heart’s content with the system of virtual desktops. Finally, we found it much better in multitasking. For those who do not like the ALT + TAB shortcut, a dedicated button appeared, and another for research.

Microsoft has not forgotten tablet users. On Surface Pro 3, the continuum mode optimizes the interface for touch. But when a keyboard is detected, it returns to PC mode

means. Chilly a design

Windows 10 to Windows 7 offers a facelift rather successful. Icons modernize, transparency effects and transitions are less flashy and Mac OS X. The file browser, however, could do with a stroke of the knife to remove the horrible “menu Ribbon “polluted unreadable menus.

The cohabitation between the” old “programs and apps” modern “even scratched the retina. The Weather app would not spot on iPad while the calculator still resembles that of Windows XP

The bad:. Lack of innovation

Apple is developing complementarity between Mac OS and iOS, Google Android and Chrome OS between, for no transition experience regardless of screen. Windows 10, he seems more focused on the past than the future-even if such innovations as the assistant Cortana will be integrated by the final version in late 2015 in all, this edition is clearly aimed at users of Windows XP and 7 who had rejected Windows 8 remains to be seen if they still want to buy a PC.