What has changed in the past half year of Win10 release?

Computer store news: Since Microsoft officially released Win10 at the end of July, the global installation of Win10 has already exceeded 100 million, and it is now the fastest operating system after Win7, and still Gradually reduce the gap with Win7. From this point it can be seen that Win10 has gained user recognition.

As an operating system, the impact will be the entire ecosystem environment, and Win10 wants to achieve, but it is a whole integrated product ecology, which is the road that Microsoft has been emphasizing.

Through the Win10 bridge, Microsoft has opened up PCs, mobile phones, tablets, Xbox game consoles, wearable devices and even virtual reality devices to provide users with an integrated product experience.

Win10

In this Win10, Microsoft continues to consolidate the traditional X86 architecture platform ecosystem, and more importantly, strengthen the application development of the UWP platform. Perhaps many users have not realized that the software they use is actually the UWP platform architecture, not the traditional software, which is an improvement. Pre-installed in Win10 such as mail, calendar, music and video players are actually UWP applications.

This change actually started from Win8, but Win8's UWP application was resisted by users, and Win10 is much better in this regard. On the one hand, Win10's UWP is consistent with traditional software in terms of performance and usage. On the other hand, its function is not behind the traditional software, but it saves resources.

We have done a comparison between the traditional NetEase cloud music client and the UWP client. There is almost no difference between the two, and the UWP version has fewer resources and a more beautiful interface. This is enough to illustrate some of the problems.

UWP Netease Music

Another important breakthrough in Win10 is voice and search. The addition of Cortana adds a new dimension to the use of Win10, which is not just a superficial change in the way voice control is controlled (although we must say that Cortana's speech recognition is really superb), it is also a manifestation of intelligence. For example, when we search for an address, we will directly give us the route of travel. When we ask about the weather, we will display it directly instead of giving you a URL. Even if there is a weather disaster, we will take the initiative to notify you. Recently, the author will receive a warning of PM2.5 exceeding the standard every day.

The search system built into Win10 is actually an artificial intelligence product that can learn to evolve. It will provide users with services such as news information, weather forecast, restaurant query, schedule management, etc. according to the user's usage habits. This is what it really does.

Cortana route planning function

Finally, the growth of Win10 is even more amazing in terms of games. According to the data of Steam (the world's largest game sales platform), just 10 months after the release of Win10, the number of users on the Steam platform has been only a percentage point compared with Win7, which has dominated for several years. The speed of Win10's share of Win7 is amazing. This shows that Win10 is a more advantageous system than Win7 in terms of game users.

Win10's exclusive support for DX12 is one of the major reasons for gamers to look at the system, and this feature will become more apparent with the launch of a large number of DX12 games next year.

Streaming Xbox games

And under the communication of Win10, the connection between PC and Xbox is almost one. After the release of the Redstone version early next year, in addition to the Xbox games that can be played in tandem on a PC, you can also play PC games in tandem on the Xbox. At the same time, the Xbox game area in the Win10 store is also being improved.

It can be said that Win10 is a system worthy of replacing Win7, whether it is in daily use or in the game environment. This is an important step in Microsoft's layout. We will continue to look forward to Microsoft's next year's action, as well as more listings of Win10 products, to perfect this huge ecosystem.