Start and Action center
- You can now show either 3 or 4 medium tiles per group
- The letters in the app list now take less space when "Show more tiles" is enabled
- Tiles now can have jumplists
- The context menus for tiles have been reorganized and provide quick links to share and review apps
- Desktop app tiles now can have their own color
- Start now supports up to 2048 tiles (up from 512)
- The start context menus have been updated to display icons and contain the app's jumplist
Cortana and search
- Cortana now works on local accounts
- Cortana can now understand your inked notes
- Cortana can now track your movies and ticketed events
- Cortana can now warn you for missed phone calls
- Cortana can now save energy when you're away
Desktop
- Task View now allows to snap apps to the screen or replace apps
- When you snap a window and select another window to snap beside it, you can resize both windows at once (only horizontal)
User Interface
- When colors for start, taskbar and Action center are enabled, title bars will now also be affected
- Context menus now have a more consistent design
- Improved dark and light theming
- The look for dropdowns has been changed system wide
- Windows Apps now have an opening and closing animation
- Jumplists have a new design
- Some icons have been replaced (including the Registry Editor)
- The title bar of WinRT apps will now take the color of the splash screen while starting
- The text that is shown while preparing your account has been updated
Microsoft Edge
- Edge has been updated from version 20.10240 to version 25.10586 with the following updates
- You can now open proxy settings from within the Microsoft Edge settings
- Edge has a new First start-home page
- You can now share media to other screens
- When a page is properly paginated, the next button will light up to go to the next page
- Tabs won't resize when you're closing tabs until your mouse leaves the tab bar
- Edge now shows previews of tabs
- You can now sync your favorites and reading list
- Middle-clicking the Edge-icon will now launch a new window
- The F12 tools can now be docked into the window
- The search engine setting now has its own pane
- The note feature has a new icon
- You can now use "Ask Cortana" when reading a PDF
- EdgeHTML has been updated from version 12.10240 to version 12.10586 with the following updates
- Base for Object RTC support
- Improved support for ECMAScript 6.0 and 7.0
- Extended support for HTML5 and CSS3
- Support for new input types
- Support for Pointer Lock
- Support for Canvas blending modes
- Support for the download-attribute in an anchor
- Support for the picture-element
- Support for :in-range, :out-of-range, :read-only and :read-write
- Support for font-size-adjust
- Support for input type=datetime-local
- Support for ellipses
- Support for Object RTC
- Support for HTML Templates
- Support for CSS initial and unset
- The following flags have been added
- The experimental Javascript functions option is now functional
Settings
- New panels, settings and options
- Colors for start, the taskbar and Action center now also apply to title bars
- Windows Spotlight can now be set as the lock screen for Pro users
- You can now disable the background for the logon screen
- You can now (dis)allow apps to access your call history
- You can now (dis)allow apps to access and send emails
- You can now make Windows select the correct time zone automatically
- You can now choose to shuffel backgrounds when using a slideshow
- You can let Windows notify you when there are issues with any USB-connected device
- The Insider settings now show your account details and allow you to stop receiving builds for a limited amount of days
- The Control Panel's Theme Settings have been extended, back to the state from Windows 8.1
- There is a new system in place to warn you for common issues when using the Insider Preview
- Installing apps to another drive has been enabled again
- You can now change where Windows stores offline maps
- Changing the scalling settings will now go in effect when changed, without clicking "Apply"
- You can now locate your device with GPS and location tracking in "Find my device"
- The Activation-screen no longer shows a product ID and key but the status if you've been digitally entitled
- The default apps are now marked as "Recommended for Windows 10" on the Default apps page
- There is a new "Learn more" link in Windows Update that is supposed to give you info on the latest updates
- Visual updates and others
- The Settings-icon on the taskbar no longer has a background color
- The Settings-tile is now transparent for non-fresh installs too
- The "Storage" tab now has icons for each file format
- The settings app splash screen now uses the user's accent color
- The About page now shows the Windows 10 logo in the user's accent color
- The Windows Insider Ring now has to be set with a slider instead of a dropdown
System
- Improved memory management
- Your default printer is now the last printer you've used
- You can now activate Windows 10 with a Windows 7, 8 or 8.1 key
- The build number of a public build no longer has to be dividable by 16
- WebM and VP9 support has been removed (will return in a later build)
- Improvements to localization text UI in various languages
Apps
- You can now share feedback more easily from Windows Feedback
- Windows Apps can now have jumplists
- Skype Video has been added as a default app
- Messaging has been added as a default app
- Phone has been added as a default app
- Sway has been added as a default app
Other features
- Improvements to the text input panel, including expanding when more space is required and punctuation improvements
- New emojis have been added
- The "Environmental Variables" window has been reworked
- You can now use Hyper-V within another Hyper-V guest machine
- Improved performance for running Hyper-V machines within each other
And further
- Windows will now claim to be version 1511, which stands for its November 2015 release date
- The copyright has been changed to 2016
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