Ars Technica takes you on a walk through the upcoming Creators Update for Windows 10, which will start being installed on machines in just under two weeks. Starting with the good, there are some interesting new features, such as Edge now being able to display EPUB titles natively even if you will not have the ability to mark up those pages as you can websites. It also sees the inclusion of Windows Holographic API, though as of yet nothing apart from MSPaint seems to benefit from this addition. Game Mode will also appear for users, with support for both win32 and UWP applications, though you will have to adjust settings in the non-UWP to enable the new feature.
There is a long list of other changes, for both better and worse, which you can check out in the full article.
"The next big update to Windows 10 is nearly upon us: Windows 10 version 1703, known as the Creators Update, will be published to Windows Update next Patch Tuesday, on April 11th."
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Do you have to be logged in
Do you have to be logged in via windows 10’s cloud log-in to set your privacy settings?
“Game Mode will also appear for users, with support for both win32 and UWP applications, though you will have to adjust settings in the non-UWP to enable the new feature”
So non UWP is disabled by default and how much longer until there is no options at all for any other than UWP usage for games, or even other software.
If I serch may private desktop/system I do not want that search everywhere to go out over the interwebs an blab, blab, blab what I just searched for on my desktop/system.
I think that Vulkan/Windows 7, or 8.1 and Vulkan/Linux will be necessary after 2020-2023. So I’m going for other options than windows 10, Including Web Browsers with VPN services included to keep my Internet Providor out of my personal business.
Windows 7 is just as bad as
Windows 7 is just as bad as Windows 10. The Feds have access to all modern Operating Systems.