Windows 10 All you need to know!

Windows have announced that its new version of windows will be shipped this summer not just for desktops but also for all other devices from smart phones to laptops.

Good news is that windows will be free for previous windows 8.1 and windows 7 users. And it is been said that it will also be available for free for pirated versions of windows.

Microsoft is trying to balance it for everyone.

Here’s a look of new windows 10.

What’s new?

There a lot of new features in the new windows

The amazing feature is the personal assistant Cortana.

The old Start is back. But you can switch to the full screen start menu if you want to.

All the store apps will open in the desktop mode with title bars and maximize and minimize buttons.

The charms haven’t been removed.

The Long ignored command prompt is also been improved.

The New Track pad Gestures 

Microsoft has worked also on the track pad gestures to improve the input methods.
as on laptops track pad is the basic input device and to make it easy to use Microsoft has added new gestures for precision track pads 
which are shown in the image.

The System Requirements for windows 10 desktop version will be as follows

1 GHz CPU

1 GB of RAM for 32 bit and 2 GB for 64 bit

16GB of storage space

The system requirements for smartphones and tablets will be as follows

3 Inch of minimum screen size

512 MB of RAM

4 GB of internal storage (at this limit also a microSD card slot)

Support for DirectX 9

The higher the resolution the higher the ram required will be.

If your device has 480 by 800 or 480 by 854 you will require at least 512 mb of RAM

For a 900 by 1,440 and 1,200 by 1,920 display resolution you will need at least 2GB of RAM and for a device having a 2k display will need 3GB of Ram.

Physical hardware buttons for power, volume up and volume down (in case of the lowest-supported-resolution -- 480 by 800 -- start, back and search buttons -- capacitive, given current designs -- are also needed)

The hardware requirements for buttons are consistent with those for Windows Phones.

Want to try it early?

The Technical preview of windows 10 is available here to download.

If you can run windows 8.1 or 8 without any problem then you can run windows 10 as well. This is just a technical preview by Microsoft and it is not a finished product it is sort of rough in some areas although mot of the functionality is implemented and a lot is to come. It is recommended that you backup everything first and then install the technical preview as It may crash while installing and may delete some of the files.

In order to use Cortana you must install the technical preview with US English Language.

The download instructions are in the link given above. 

Nokia Promises Its Amber Update Will Come To All Windows Phone 8 Lumia Devices By The End Of September.

Today Nokia promised owners of its Lumia Windows Phone 8 devices that its "Amber" update will reach all phones by the end of September. The Amber upgrade is a mix of feature improvements that will improve Nokia's handsets, further setting them apart from devices built by other smartphone OEMs.

Amber contains a photo-editing tool, improved image processing, the ability to snag motion in sequence with "Action Shot," the acceptance of double-tap input to wake the phone, and improved internal storage reporting.

However, the most important new piece delivered by Amber is "Glance Screen," a tool that makes your phone's inactive state more interesting. When your handset is inactive, it will display a clock and battery information. So, you can more quickly interact with your phone without having to do anything at all. You can turn off Glance, of course, or have it switch off after a set amount of time.

In past years, we would now discuss how Amber puts Nokia ahead of Samsung, HTC, and other Windows Phone OEMs (remember Dell?). We don't have to do that anymore, as Nokia controls essentially the entire Windows Phone market. Thus, the changes are not as much changes to Nokia's Windows Phone handsets as they are adaptations to the Windows Phone platform itself. Given that Nokia sells nearly 90 percent of Windows Phone devices, any changes that it makes become de facto official changes.

This is a problem for Microsoft, as it initially ceded flexibility to make changes to Nokia in partial exchange for it adopting the platform. This saved Microsoft's mobile life, but in the process cost it control: If Nokia can essentially skin Windows Phone to its own contentment, Microsoft is in a material way not in charge of the Windows Phone user experience and design.

I doubt that sits well in Redmond. Thus, Microsoft either builds a phone itself (there have been rumors), or it bolsters HTC (the only remaining OEM partner with more than a scrape of market share that isn't Nokia) to get a better grip on its platform.

Whatever the case, if you are a Nokia handset owner, the Amber update will be rolling out depending on your handset and country and likely carrier over the next month. Get ready.