Microsoft Windows 10, New Features

5 Great New Features in Windows 10

With the new Windows 10 on its way we thought we would share a little bit of our research, by giving you 5 great features that are going to be in Windows 10

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1. There’s loads of stuff for touch, but it’s different stuff

Designed to appeal to experts and novices alike, Microsoft was at pains to point out that it hasn’t given up on touch with the new OS. The Charms bar remains for the moment although we expect it to die if you’re using a non-touch PC (check out Continum below).

Microsoft says it wants to support touch users who have persevered with Windows 8 and “evolve” the touch UI. (Translated: That means it is changing quite a bit.) The task switching will no longer work on the left. So with that and the charms going, that’s goodbye to most of the problem with Windows 8 – and a whole philosophy down the pan.

2. It’s BACK!

The wonderful start menu has made a return!

3. Another new Task View (the Windows 8 flippy thing has gone)

Now the Windows 8 task switcher has been unceremoniously dumped, there’s a new Task View in Windows 10, too, so users can switch between virtual desktops.That’sause Microsoft now recognises that novice users use the taskbar rather than switching in other, cleverer, ways such as Alt+Tab (which also now switches between desktops).

4. Snap Assist helps you snap windows

A new Snap Assist feature also helps users work out which way is best to snap apps to. You can snap windows into new screens and tile Windows – just as you’ve been able to since Windows 2.0 or maybe 3.0.

5. The Command Prompt enters the 21st Century

Another quite amazing feature for those of us that use it is that the command prompt is now getting keyboard shortcuts! So you will be able to paste in your commands! Hardly groundbreaking, but actually pretty exciting.

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Shocking iPhone 6 Plus Bends!

It is quite clear to say that almost everyone would of been hearing the claims that the new expensive iPhone 6 Plus phone is bending in peoples pockets. This seemed like a crazy, unlikely thing to happen so we did a little bit of searching on YouTube and the evidence is everywhere

Here is a decent video by the YouTube user Unbox Therapy which clearly shows that with a little force it is way to easy to bend this device

Amazon to buy Twitch for $970 million

Amazon is buying video game streaming giant Twitch, the companies announced Monday.

“Amazon and Twitch optimize for our customers first and are both believers in the future of gaming,” Twitch CEO Emmett Shear said about the sale.

“Being part of Amazon will let us do even more for our community,” he continued. “We will be able to create tools and services faster than we could have independently. This change will mean great things for our community, and will let us bring Twitch to even more people around the world.”

The news comes after The Information and Wall Street Journal reported Amazon was closing in on a deal to acquire the video game streaming firm. The Journal’s initial report had the price of sale at more than $1 billion (about £600m, AU$1.07b), but according to the release Amazon will buy all outstanding Twitch shares for approximately $970 million (about £585m, AU$1.04b) in cash.

App Frenzy – Are some apps over-valued?

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Apps have never been so popular, with some attracting hundreds of thousands of downloads in a matter of days and offering growth that you just can’t achieve with a website.

Growth attracts investors; hunger for a quick return on their cash and this is initially what led up to the dotcom crash back in 2000. Is the same fate on the horizon for the app ecosystem?

The answer is we don’t know, investors don’t know and app developers don’t know. If we look back to the dotcom bubble, it was caused by a combination of market confidence that the companies would EVENTUALLY return future profits that would be significant. Venture capital companies got greedy, started to speculate (which inflated stock prices higher) and with so many people caught up in the hype, traditional metrics for valuing a company were overlooked.

Is this happening with some apps? The most difficult aspect for any app developer driving significant downloads – making money from it then comes second as they hope that they will find a way to make money from their huge user-base. Many turn to in-app ads and the freemium model – essentially providing a free version, which can then be upgraded.

Others turn to subscription models, whilst others try native advertising (including relevant adds and text links within the content).

In many cases it works, returning huge returns for the venture capitalists prepared to take a risk and invest, as well as for the app developer who’s spent month’s of their life on 4 hours sleep a night.

In other cases though, hype starts to drop, downloads remain static and it becomes pretty clear that the userbase can’t be used to make money. The investors then have nowhere to turn, but to their healthier investments to prop-up the bank balance.

Yo App Valued at $1 million

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This article was written because of a recent article about a potential security flaw with the increasingly popular ‘Yo’ app, which within months of launch has received investment and is now valued at $1 million. The app is simple to say the least, simply sending a ‘Yo’ message (text and voice recording) to a user.

Arbel, the founder, claimed it took him eight hours to create – not bad going if you can create such value in the space of a day and something millions of us can only dream of.

Unsurprisingly, Arbel has big plans for future development of the Yo app, with Yo’s already being sent as alerts for each World Cup goal scored.

It’s a simple, clever idea – but is an app like this that can be duplicated and copied so quickly worth $1m? We’d be really interested to get your thoughts below by adding a comment

article by https://www.appnews.co.uk/