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this episode of TechnoBuffalo is brought to you by the all new G flex 2 from LG life's good hey what's going on guys the markings hanging from technobuffalo and today we'll be taking a look at the latest technical build for Windows 10 now we saw a lot of cool stuff at Microsoft's event in January like the hollow lens Windows 10 on mobile and new features come to the Xbox one that will allow users to stream to Windows 10 devices now that we got the latest build of windows 10 up and running let's go ahead and see what it looks like in action now there are a lot of new features that were add to the latest build of windows 10 and probably one of the more exciting one is Cortana Microsoft's own personal assistant now crotona on Windows 10 works surprisingly well especially for an early build you can activate Cortana by clicking on a microphone icon or by saying hey Cortana and you can ask her what the weather is for today or who won the Super Bowl all that good stuff and she'll reply to you just like how she would on a Windows Phone the interface the voice and how crotona interacts with you is a really nice touch and I think Microsoft did the right thing putting Cortana on Windows unfortunately Cortana is only available for the US and in English right now but hopefully in the coming months other countries and languages will have curtana and one of the other things that I noticed with Windows 10 is Action Center it's basically like the Notification Center for Mac OS 10 you'll be able to see your notifications here whether it's from a nap or Windows directly and right below that you have your quick action buttons like tablet mode if you have a windows laptop that has a touchscreen and you also have your basic settings like Wi-Fi display and airplane mode now another new thing that Microsoft added into this build was the ability to run store apps in window mode which is super convenient nobody to keep swiping to a new screen to access the full screen store app it's in window mode which means you can drag anywhere on the screen minimize it or maximize it and taking a look at the new Xbox app for the Windows 10 it's running in a window mode I can maximize the app put it in full screen and digging even deeper in the app you can check what your friends are up to check your achievements and more and there's also the new settings app which combines the good old control panel in Windows XP and Windows 8 Settings app in one now you'll be able to access various settings from this app like your Wi-Fi settings your screen resolution and even check how much storage your hard drive has left there's also the search field at the upper right corner to search for certain keywords if for example you don't know where the Bluetooth settings are you can search for it and access the settings through the search field which makes everything so much easier now file explorer also got a little redesigned interface the icons look much flatter than before and overall you I feels and looks much better than previous builds we tried there's also a quick access menu on the left hand side which shows you which folders or files you've accessed recently and talking a bit about the new start menu first it's back but with a little twist we have the familiar start menu we all know and love but on the right hand side we have the usual windows 8 live tiles that we can access right away you can move the towels around remove them resize them however you'd like but what they added into this build of windows 10 was the ability to go fullscreen if you're used to using Windows 8 and the Start screen you'll be able to use the Start menu in full screen just like how you did in Windows 8 now of course we're still using an early build of windows 10 so not everything is working one hundred percent but for the most part everything seems to be pretty solid microsoft also announced project Spartan a new browser that will be an alternative to Internet Explorer and there are a bunch of new features like the ability to jot down notes on any web page and there's also a new reading mode and integration with Cortana so you can quickly pull up the weather upcoming flights and more from inside the browser search bar now unfortunately project Spartan didn't come with this build of windows 10 but when it does come out we'll be sure to make a video about it microsoft also mentioned that windows 10 on pc smartphones and tablets will sync across devices making it much easier to bounce between devices and windows 10 will be a free upgrade whether you're using windows 7 8 or 8.1 computer or Windows Phone 8.1 device as long as you upgrade within the first year you should be good there's still no word when Windows 10 will actually become available but we'll let you know as soon as that news is announced anyways a suit for this quick video guys make sure to check us out at TechnoBuffalo calm for the latest and greatest tech news I'm märklin sangan from TechnoBuffalo I'll see you guys in 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