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- [Voiceover] Hey there guys, Zach here for Windows Central,
and welcome back to another video.
Now today we're taking a look at Windows 10 build 15002.
This build includes a number of features and enhancements,
over the last public preview build, which was 14986.
Now, this build is very similar
to the leaked preview build
that came out around Christmas, build 14997,
so if you've seen that video,
this video's gonna be pretty similar, feature wise.
However, there are some new additions,
that weren't in that build,
that we'll be demoing today,
including things that I missed in that build,
such as contact menus, and live folders, and whatnot.
So, definitely, stick around and watch this one,
even if you have seen saw the other one.
Just saying, that there will be
some similarities between the two.
So, diving straight in,
the first noteworthy change, is with Microsoft Edge.
Microsoft has been working hard
on Microsoft Edge, and have now included
a new feature called setting tabs aside,
now what this allows you to do,
is, as it says on the tin, set tabs aside.
Now this will be very useful,
for those of you who are constantly using lots of tabs
for a specific reason.
So say if you're doing a report,
and you're researching pages with Microsoft Edge,
here I've got Windows Central open,
and say I've got Bing open as well,
and maybe, Netflix, that's usually a good
selection of things to research, not really.
But say I'm doing my research,
and I decide I no longer want to be doing my research,
but I need to save these tabs for another time.
Instead of minimizing the window,
and opening a new Edge experience,
I can simply just set these tabs aside,
and they'll be put into a menu for later.
I can now begin browsing Amazon,
and buying things to my delight.
But, when I need to start researching again,
I can click up here and restore this session,
and all of my tabs will be put back
where I expect them to be,
and I can now load them all up again,
and continue researching where I left off.
That's an excellent feature,
that I'm pretty sure many people,
especially students, are going to adore.
There's no way to turn off these buttons yet,
I don't believe, yeah, so I can't hide these,
so if you are someone who won't be using this,
you can't turn it off just yet,
I assume you will be able to at some point,
but that's not a feature in this build.
If we jump into settings here,
I don't think there's anything new in settings,
per say, it doesn't look like it.
I could be wrong, I don't remember.
But yes there are some behind the scenes improvements
to Edge as well.
So in this build Edge should perform better,
it shouldn't crash as much or hang as much,
which is something many insiders seem to experience.
Not only that, there's now a web payments,
which will be built into Edge,
which basically hooks up to your Microsoft Wallet,
and if you're at a website that supports it,
instead of having to type in your details,
Edge would just be like, hey,
I can see that there's a form here,
that requires credit card details.
Would you like me to insert the ones from your wallet?
And you can just say yes, click that, and,
it will just process the payment for you.
Very nice, can't demo that, obviously, since I don't
want to show my bank details, and card details,
and whatnot, but yes, that is a feature in this build.
I don't think it's actually working yet,
I think it's only for developers right now,
but it will be there when the creators update launchers,
in 2017, April 2017, I believe.
Not only that, if I right-click the Edge icon,
you can see here, there are options,
to jump into a new window, or new in-private window.
These are things that should have been there
since day one, but they weren't, they're there now,
so instead of opening Edge, going up here,
and then selecting new and private window,
I can do it directly from the icon now,
which is fantastic indeed.
Now, there are plenty other Edge improvements,
that I won't be walking through,
most of them are under the hood, that's why.
But, the overall Edge experience,
in this build is a lot better,
much better than it is in the anniversary update,
currently, which is very nice.
Now, moving on to the start menu,
you can see that the start menu now has
live folders, similar to the live folders on Windows Phone.
If I drop an icon over another icon,
sorry, a tile over another tile,
it will put itself into a folder.
So you see I've done one here for this,
I can do another one, see, if I drop news onto that one,
I've now made another folder,
and I can resize them much like you would expect,
and they will operate much
the same as they do on Windows Phone.
So that's very nice, opens the door
to much more customization options,
on the start menu, and the tablet mode
start screen as well, which they do work here,
as well as you would expect,
very very nice indeed.
Now if we move on to the share UI,
the share UI has been redesigned,
so if we launch a website here,
let's go to this one, and I hit share,
you will notice that the share UI
is now in the middle of the screen,
rather than slides out from the right,
which was very Windows 8 era design.
This is much more like Windows 10,
and I can select one, select mail,
and I would then be able to send this web page
off in an email, which is very nice indeed.
Now there's also the option to take a screen shot,
and copy it straight to your clip board.
This wasn't the case before, it would always go into,
If you do a print screen shot,
and that'll just save a screenshot
into your screenshots folder, but now,
if you press the windows key, shift, and S,
I can now crop a specific area of the screen,
and that will save directly to my clipboard,
and I can paste that into a document,
or a web page, or whatever,
and that will just copy that specific clipping,
rather than the whole screen.
Which is much preferred, especially if you're trying
to censor out specific information,
or just want to show off a specific thing on your screen.
This is very similar to the One Note option,
that One Note had in One Notes 2016 app,
so fantastic to see that built into Windows 10 now.
Now, this is a big feature to me at least,
this won't be something many people notice, but,
resizing windows, now actually performs like you
would expect, now I know that sounds weird,
cause resizing windows has been a thing,
since Windows 95, and it seems to have worked
fine since then.
It did, but it wasn't perfect.
You would resize the window,
and you would always find graphical glitches,
up here, for the file it's for,
for example, or in note pad from the
whole right side of the page,
or the window when resizing it,
you would see this black tearing,
and just horrible stuff that you've probably tuned out,
by now since it's been so long.
Since this bug showed up, I think,
over a decade at this point.
So yeah It's been fixed in this build.
If I resize the window really fast,
you'll notice that it doesn't happen, at all,
it's just perfect, look at it,
it just seems and looks perfect.
Now like I said, this isn't something
most people are going to notice,
and to be fair, if you don't know what I'm talking about,
you probably don't see any difference,
so this is a definitely a thing,
for those of you who pay attention
to UI problems, it has now been fixed,
and it is pretty fantastic.
So, excellent to see Microsoft,
looking at the small details there,
paints a good picture for other imrpovements
that will be coming down the line,
I'm very excited indeed.
Now, if we jump into Windows Inc,
Windows Inc has some improvements, not many.
If you go into the, that one, (laughs)
the eraser tool, you can see,
there's now options, for different kinds of eraser.
Microsoft has also updated the task bar logic,
so if you have the Windows Inc icon
on the taskbar, that shows up on every monitor,
if you have multiple monitors of course,
rather than just the main one,
which is fantastic.
Now we move down to Cortana,
Cortana has some new stuff apparently.
If we go into options here,
we can see going, enabling this option,
the windows key and C,
will now make her listen automatically,
so if I do that (keyboard clicks)
"What's the weather like today?"
- [Cortana] The forecast shows mostly
sunny skies, with a high of 49, and a low of 47.
- [Voiceover] That's the case, now Cortana,
is now showing up in more areas of the system,
including the out of box experience.
Now, I've already done a video on this,
you can click the annotation on screen now
to check that out, that showed her from build
14907, and basically, Cortana is there,
and helps you walk through the set up experience,
when setting up a new Windows 10 PC.
It's pretty great,
it doesn't work entirely just yet,
Microsoft is still making improvements to it,
however it is there,
and it is working in this build,
and it's pretty nice so make sure,
you check out that video after this one.
Now if we go into the settings app,
settings has also received a number of improvements,
including new categorized areas,
and improved layouts of the whole settings app itself,
so there's a new apps area here,
which incorporates apps and features,
default apps, offline maps and apps or websites,
none of these are new options, by any means,
they have just been moved from other areas,
in the settings app.
If we jump into settings here, there's less options
in here now, and that's very nice,
they're cleaning up and reorganizing settings,
so they fit more nicely into categories.
And if you noticed here,
there's also new options for blue light.
Now this is a feature that if you use your F flux,
or flux, I'm not entirely sure what they call them selves,
it basically dims the screen gives it a much more
warmer color, during the evening and night time.
Now why would you want this?
Well, we're gonna go scientific for a second here,
Well, looking at at screen
we're going to go scientific for a second here.
now normal screens emit something called a blue light,
which trick your brain into thinking it's
looking at daylight,
now this is a problem if you're using PCs
late into the night,
because your brain still thinks it's daytime,
so when you shut off the PC and go to bed,
your brain has trouble turning off.
Enabling this option here,
will kind of help with that,
by giving the screen a much more warmish color,
so your brain thinks it's looking
at something \other than sunlight,
perhaps a nice warm lamp, or whatever,
and it just helps with getting your brain
settled for the night.
So this is something that will
only benefit you if you use Pcs during the evening,
or when it's dark outside,
otherwise this won't be something for you,
so you can have the option to turn it off automatically,
or turn it on automatically,
and you can also adjust,
the temperature at night,
now this isn't something that you can see,
because it does affect the actual screen,
I don't think it's showing up in this recording at all,
but it is actually changing here,
if I just go down here,
my screen gets much more yellow and orange
than it is normally.
So that's something that you'll want
to check out for yourself.
Now if we move down here to cross device experiences,
now this isn't a new feature by any means,
it showed up in the anniversary update,
it's just been renamed,
and given a much more prime position
in the settings app,
I believe this showed up in the privacy
area before but what this basically
allows developers to do,
is to let users open apps on other devices,
send messages between them
and invite others to use apps with me.
No developers are actually using this yet,
as far as I know, so I can't demo it.
It does sound great,
but until developers start picking this up
I can't really do anything with it to show you.
But that description there should be enough
alone to kind of give you an idea
of what Microsoft has planned for this feature,
which is fantastic.
You may notice also here that some of the ares
have been sort of redesigned and re laid out
so no longer do you get that weird preview,
they just got drop down menus for,
resizing dpi, and resolution stuff.
We jump into Bluetooth here,
the Bluetooth area, too, has also been
slightly redesigned, although it's not really
doing anything, cause I have no Bluetooth devices
nearby which is odd, cause I usually do,
perhaps it's not working.
Not only that, there's this side bar here,
which actually is contextual,
so you may have noticed a minute ago,
there was nothing here,
but now there is, and if I click on one of these,
I should be taken straight into another area here,
for example, if I go into device and printers,
which should open up my control panel,
and that's all fine and dandy.
Jumping into personalization,
there's a new theme-ing option, now Microsoft,
is working to build themes into the Window's Store,
which you'll be able to download and just install
with one click, and they will change,
they background, color, sounds and mouse cursor,
of your machine, which is very nice indeed.
There are a few themes installed by default here, this one,
and this one.
And they've all got images and stuff that are turning
every thirty seconds or whatever, which is very nice,
you can also customize individual elements,
so I can also change the color of my accent theme if I want.
Not only that, there is now an option for recent colors,
and down here has been changed slightly as well,
instead of these options being a toggle,
just like this one, they're now tick boxes,
which makes much more sense, if you think about it.
Moving into settings, Windows Update,
has been given some improvements as well,
there's now this pretty cool icon,
which actually gives you a nice green tick,
when there's updates installed,
no updates to be installed, sorry.
And if you go into advanced options here,
you'll see that there's now an option to pause updates.
Now this is a thing many people have been asking for
since Windows 10 came out in 2015.
You can now finally temporarily
pause updates for up to 35 days.
Now this will be beneficial to you
if you work in a business that isn't managed by
a workspace, or whatever,
and you just are worried about updates
breaking your machine, you can pause them for up to 35 days.
Get the all clear from other people who've
installed the update and say, yes,
there's nothing wrong with it, you can install an update.
Also great for people like streamers,
who are needing to use their PCs to stream video games live
and you can just sometimes
an update will be ready to install,
and Windows, more often then not go hey,
it's time to install this update now,
there's nothing you can say about it.
But now you can obviously pause that,
which is fantastic.
And there's that little green icon like I said there was.
Now it would also be an option to make sure
Windows Update doesn't install drivers,
which it'll be great for those of you,
who have a machine, that has drivers,
that are breaking something on your machine, so,
I can't show that here, because that's only
for Windows 10 Pro and above, this is Windows 10 Home,
but yeah, that would be an option as well.
Now if we move on to the Windows Defender App,
the Windows Defender App has been given
a few more improvements here.
There we go, there's now a new device performance and health
option area here, which gives you an overview,
of what's wrong or what's right on your machine.
You can see here that it thinks I am using
my screen brightness too high, which affects battery life.
I can also refresh Windows directly from
the Defender app, which is pretty great,
and do quick scan, or whatever else.
This is a very nice app actually,
I'm very excited to see this roll out
to everybody in April,
so yes, very nice update to Windows Defender,
not only that, there's also an improvement
to the Windows Holographic app.
Now I can't actually demo the Holographic UI
'cause none of the VR machines that support
this are out yet, but there's now a nice new background
here which is slightly animated.
If you take a close look,
you can see the tree here is slightly moving.
And it's pretty nice.
But if you click get started here,
it won't let me continue because
apparently I don't have a USB 3.0
on this device, even though I do.
So, keep that in mind,
when VR comes out, we'll be doing a whole
separate video on the VR experience
with Windows 10, it'll be pretty cool.
but until then, stay tuned at Windows Central.
And I believe that's basically it,
for all the most noteworthy changes in this build.
The blue screen of death is now green,
I can't show that obviously,
since I'm actually using a machine,
to record the desktop,
but picture the blue screen of death
and then make it green,
that's what it looks like, it's pretty great.
Then there is also,
that's it...
That's all it is, there's nothing else,
everything else, is just much smaller enhancements.
Now, everything I've demoed here,
isn't everything in this build,
there's a lot more smaller imrpovements
that just aren't worth showing
because they're just so small, or insignificant,
or just under the hood, so,
make sure you download this build
and check it out for yourself,
not on a primary machine, cause,
although this build is pretty much feature complete,
there's still a few more features actually coming,
but even though this build is almost feature complete,
there are a lot of known issues.
Mostly referring to Cortana, such as
syncing notifications across devices no longer works,
that's a big deal to me,
as well as Windows Hello will sometimes
not work properly on the lock screen,
which again, might be a big deal to some of you,
as well, so keep that in mind.
However, this is a pretty interesting build.
Definitely one that resembles what
the final creators update will look like.
We are still missing a couple things,
such as My People,
which will be showing up in the task bar at some point,
but yes, a very exciting time if you're a Windows insider,
stay tuned at Windows Central for more
regarding Windows 10 and the creators' update,
thanks so much for watching,
and I shall see you in the next one, bye bye
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