Windows 10 Anniversary Update

Windows 10 have released their second big update.. But whats new?

Cortana Becomes a Whole Lot Smarter

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Cortana can make proactive suggestions for you. If you receive email confirmation of flight details, it’ll add them to your calendar. If you promised David you’d send him that PowerPoint in an email, Cortana will know, and remind you to fulfill that commitment later on.

Windows 10 Interacts with Your Android Phone (or Windows Phone)

Cortana on Windows 10 will now integrate with the Cortana application on your Android or Windows smartphone. You’ll just need to install the Cortana Android app and sign in with the same Microsoft account on both devices. iPhone users are out of luck, as iOS is too locked down for Microsoft to integrate with it as deeply. This just works between Windows 10 PCs and Windows Mobile 10 phones running the latest software. It now works between Android phones and Windows 10 PCs, too–just be sure you have the latest Cortana app installed from Google Play.

The Start Menu Has Been Redesigned

Microsoft has changed the way Windows 10’s Start menu works. The “All Apps” option is now gone–you’ll just see a full list of installed applications at the left side of your Start menu. Your most frequently used and recently added applications will appear at the top of this list. It’ll show the three most recently added applications instead of a single one, and you can expand this list to see more applications sorted by when you installed them.

Important buttons like the File Explorer, Settings, and Shut Down buttons are now always located at the left side of the Start menu.

OneDrive users will be happy to know that they can now search all their files–both files on the PC and files stored online in OneDrive–from the Start menu.

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