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what's up guys Brian song here I build 2015 and I brought a friend of mine Brian Roper with product marketing here at Microsoft mr. Roper in the house I like that cool man yet happy to be here excellent so we're here to see kind of some of the tweaks and the latest things you guys will be showing off here at Build 2015 with Windows 10 obviously there's going to be some improvements or some new things that we may not have seen yet and we kind of wanted to do to show us some of things that you really wanted to showcase a feature here awesome for sure one of the coolest things that I'm excited about is all the work that we've done based on the feedback from our windows insiders so they're giving us tips and tricks like hey we love this tweak this 3 million people doing that so you're going to see just a lot of things first off in the shell things we just evolved in become a lot cleaner we've done some stuff like move the power button right next to the start menu so you don't have to move your mouse super far to get there when you maximize this to have a full screen start experience if you want to do that you totally can and it's senator looking good also in the task switcher view which i'm going to show you Spartan here in a second are multiple desktops yes that whole switching experience is a lot smoother now we've done some tweaks there to be able to easily move between those desktops the UI is looking good another thing that folks asked for is to be able to actually move things around between different desktops so if i have this file explorer here i just want to grab this and move it to another desktop i could or i could actually make a brand new desktop with it and that's all based off of feedback from that insiders program so you guys looking smooth we've acted on some things that folks recommended Cortana's popping up really good if you type stuff like whether she'll pop right down if you have either certain bar Yeah right there certain Bing answers she'll come right up and let you know so she's and she's sitting there in Spartan real nice have you seen her integrate with websites and stuff I would like you to show I'll should I check it I have not seen that so here's like a sample restaurant right actual it's a real restaurant but it's a good example of this Cortana can pop up and let you know hey I know some stuff about this page and if you click her she will let you know like hey here's where it is the phone number the hours the menu all this kind of good stuff this is a lot of integration with Cortana when we first saw the demo I'm at 121 like we we saw how Joe interacted with Cortana but now you're showing me Cortana really integrated on different levels within windows more than what we've seen before right absolutely yeah and the really cool thing too is when you think about Cortana being this personal assistant who knows the stuff that is going to help you do stuff that you want to do it makes sense that she's kind of integrated throughout the platform and what you'll see today some super new stuff with Cortana is her helping you find things that she'll probably be into doing and also helping you with your piece about PC so imagine the day when you're stuck you forget a keyboard shortcut or something and literally you can just come down here and ask for something like how do i project my screen the keyboard shortcut to project is Windows key + P so she can tell you just like that how many times have somebody been stalker is there a better way to do this and you can just ask her and in addition to all of other fun being answers the fun one I like to do is ask for something just crazy like how many centimeters in a light year here's your answer like that's crazy there you go but but but it's there like stuff like that she can do device searches so you'll see her pop-up a lot what we're super excited about here at build is getting our developers excited and one thing we're going to announce today is the fact that this Cortana platform the way that she is an extensive bility platform on phone and has been for a while that functionality is now on PC so you can you can actually use her as a platform to build your app to integrate so for example we've done that with viber so you can say something really natural to her like start a chat with Terry Myerson using viber starting a chat with Terry Myerson so with that natural language you can actually connect to the app you know I spoke really i didn't say viber do the pitch just told her you're gone with your flow yeah totally between stuff like this email dictation there's a lot that she could do to make a real natural personal experience it's cortana really kind of the rock star of Windows 10 I mean now we're seeing it integrated on a whole new level within apps third-party apps right in the browser on the fly what you know where is she kind of one of those centerpieces or temples and windows I think she's definitely super important but I mean when you think of this notion of more personal computing she's definitely a core part of that experience to light things up across all the different platforms windows is going to offer I mean really a lot of stuff for doing man the two-in-one story continuum stuff Jeff there's a lot of rock stars but she's definitely up there I I will Brian oh we can't wait to get our hands on this and really build 2015 to showcase all this to the developers for cnet.com i'm brian Tong