- A new
approach to updates and upgrades : Participants in the preview
program can choose between two update speeds
- The
evolution of the Windows user experience : The Windows 10 Start menu
blends elements of its Windows 7 predecessor with Windows 8 live tiles
- User
accounts and synchronization : Signing in with a Microsoft account
instead of a local account provides tightly integrated support for cloud-based
services, along with easy synchronization of settings and apps between devices .
The list of settings that can be synchronized
includes the layout of the Start screen as well as apps you can link a Windows domain account with a
Microsoft account to allow robust security and effective network management .
- Windows apps
: Windows 10 includes support for virtually all desktop applications
that are compatible with Windows 7. It also supports the latest generation of
Windows apps
- Security
enhancements :
The most significant new Windows 10 security
feature involves a major improvement in authentication, based on biometric
factors.
Windows Hello This feature uses biometric authentication—facial
recognition, an iris scan, or a fingerprint—to unlock devices
Microsoft Passport The second feature is based on a new API that works in
conjunction with biometric authentication on an enrolled device to sign in to
any supported mobile service
Trusted boot : This feature protects the integrity of the remainder
of the boot process
Measured boot : On devices that include a Trusted Platform Module
(TPM)
Windows Defender : Previous Windows versions included a limited
antispyware feature called Windows Defender. Beginning with Windows 8, the same
name describes a full-featured antimalware program that is the successor to
Microsoft Security Essentials
Windows Smart
Screen : Windows Smart Screen is a
safety feature that uses application reputation-based technologies to help
protect Windows users from malicious software , The Windows Smart Screen app reputation
feature works with the Smart Screen feature in the default Windows browser
- Virtualization :
Windows 10 includes a
robust, built-in virtualization platform This feature, called Client Hyper-V
An overview of the
new Windows user experience
The left side contains
the following, from top to bottom:
-
An icon for the current user, which when clicked or tapped reveals a menu with
options to lock the PC, sign out, switch accounts, or change account settings
-
Shortcuts for File Explorer the current
user’s Documents folder, and the Settings app
-
Shortcuts to frequently used and recently added apps
-
An All Apps shortcut that replaces the left side of the Start menu with a
scrolling list of installed apps and saved shortcuts—everything that was on its own screen in Windows 8.1
- The Start menu
contains a Power button (Sleep, Shut Down, Restart)
The Settings app
That Settings shortcut
leads to the Windows 10 successor of Windows 8’s PC Settings
Notifications
Center and action buttons
Cortana
Cortana is one of the
signature features of Windows 10, adding a personality Essentially, Cortana
acts as a personal assistant, combining local and web search with the ability
to understand spoken commands and enough smarts to convert those commands into
tasks, appointments, or instructions
Modern apps
in resizable windows
modern apps can
now run in resizable windows that can be dragged around the desktop, minimized
to the taskbar, and otherwise managed just like Windows desktop applications helpfully displays
thumbnails of all other running windows alongside the one you just snapped
Tablet Mode
File Explorer
IT pros and power
users spend a disproportionate amount of time managing files, which is why it's
worth calling out some of the changes in File Explorer in Windows 10.
Cloud
connections
The long-term
roadmap for Windows 10 includes a unified sync client that combines access to
files stored on either or both of Microsoft’s cloud-based storage services
Compatibility
and preparation
To install Windows
10, you need sufficient free storage space (at least 16 GB for 32-bit versions
and 20 GB for 64-bit) and sufficient installed RAM (a minimum of 1 GB for
32-bit, 2 GB for 64-bit)
The following
device types are incompatible with Windows 10
- The Surface RT,
Surface 2, and other devices running Windows RT are not compatible with the
Windows 10
-Small tablets
with 32 GB or less of storage that were configured using WIMBoot were blocked
from upgrading to some releases of the Windows 10
- The Windows 10
Mobile operating system although closely related to Windows 10 in many
respects, is delivered separately. The Windows 10 Technical Preview bits that
are available for installation on PCs will not work on phones
Windows 10
installation options
using Windows
Update to initiate the Windows 10 upgrade is a perfectly reasonable choice To perform a clean
install, you need to boot from installation media Choosing an
account typeIn an upgrade,
Windows 10 preserves your existing user profile and prompts you to sign in
using the same credentials as on the upgraded device. On a clean install, you
need to create the first account from scratch. In Windows 10, you have three
options
Microsoft account This is the default option for a personal device that
isn’t joined to a domain. A Microsoft account
Work account As an IT pro, you’re probably intimately familiar with
domain accounts
Local account This account option is difficult to find in some
Windows setup configurations
Which
account type should you use?
the best choice is
a Microsoft account . it allows you to turn on Bit Locker encryption for the
test device and save the recovery key to secure storage using the alias you
created
Security in
Windows 10
Securing hardware
: The first layer of protection for a Windows 10 device is the hardware itself
- Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) : the PC BIOS has finally been retired. Its replacement
is UEFI
- Trusted
Platform Module (TPM) : A TPM is a
hardware chip
In addition, Windows
10 offers support for hardware devices that allows users to identify themselves
using biometric information such as a fingerprint recognition, facial
recognition, or an iris scan
-Securing the boot
process: The best way to avoid having
to deal with it is to secure the boot process so that it’s protected from the
very start
Secure Boot
Early Launch
Antimalware (ELAM)
Trusted Boot
Measured Boot
Locking down enterprise PCs
Device Guard is a
new feature that allows IT pros to lock down a device so tightly that it is
incapable of running untrusted software
Securing
data on local storage devices
Windows 10
incorporates robust data-encryption options that encompass a full range of
devices
Device
encryption
On any device that supports the InstantGo data is encrypted by default
BitLocker
Drive Encryption
From a
technological standpoint, Device Encryption and BitLocker are identical. Both
device encryption and BitLocker default to 128-bit Advanced Encryption Standard
(AES), but BitLocker can be configured to use AES-256
BitLocker uses
software-based encryption to protect the contents of Windows operating-system
and data volumes. On devices without hardware encryption With BitLocker in
Windows 10, you can choose to encrypt only the used space on a disk instead of
the entire disk
- Fixed Data Drives\Enforce drive encryption type on fixed data drives
- Operating System Drives\Enforce drive encryption type on operating system drives
- Removable Data Drives\Enforce drive encryption type on removable data drives
Remote
business data removal
administrators can
mark and encrypt corporate content to distinguish it from ordinary user data.
When the relationship between the organization and the user ends, the encrypted
corporate data can be wiped on command using Exchange ActiveSync
Securing
identities
Windows 10 includes
fundamental architectural changes designed to fundamentally prevent both forms
of attack
Windows 10
supports existing fingerprint readers for authentication
The first two
features are designed to protect against exploits that use vulnerabilities such
as buffer overruns in the operating system and in applications:
- Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR)
This feature randomizes how and where important data is stored in memory
- Data Execution
Prevention (DEP) This feature substantially reduces the range of memory that
code
Windows
Defender
is designed to be
unobtrusive, updating automatically and providing messages only when required
to do so. It is intended primarily for use in unmanaged PCs
SmartScreen
and phishing protection
The basic security
principle behind SmartScreen it’s much more effective to stop malicious code
from running in the first place than to remove it after it has already secured
a foothold on the system
Windows
SmartScreen technology is particularly effective at preventing untrained users
from running files of unknown provenance that have a greater-than-normal chance
of being malicious
Deploying
and managing Windows Store apps
All editions of
Windows 10 include a selection of Microsoft-authored universal apps that
demonstrate these principles while also performing useful functions: the
Calculator and Alarms & Clock apps offer excellent examples of this
adaptive user experienceWindows 10
universal apps also include support for natural user inputs, such as speech,
inking, gestures, and even user gaze
Web
browsing and Windows 10
Edge HTML
Windows 10
networking
Wireless
networking enhancement
The single biggest change under the
hood in Windows 10 is a new Wireless Driver Interface (WDI) driver model This
feature allows for a universal WLAN driver package that supports native
functionality in both desktop and mobile versions of Windows 10 It also offers greater reliability There are
also enhancements for Bluetooth devices The new driver model also supports MAC
address randomization to increase security and privacy :
Near field communication
(NFC) introduced tap-to-pair printing
support, which allows laptops and mobile devices that include NFC support to
connect to an NFC-enabled enterprise printer with a simple tap
Wi-Fi Direct This is a relatively new
standard that allows devices to connect to one another over a wireless network
in peer-to-peer fashion, without requiring an access point
Miracast
wireless display another standard that uses Wi-Fi Direct
to stream audio and video from a device to a Miracast-enabled display or
projector
Connecting
to remote corporate networks
Windows 10
includes improvements in the ability to automatically trigger VPN connections
when you select an app or resource that requires the VPN
Managing
network connections
in Windows 10 The
venerable Netsh command-line utility is still available in Windows 10, but it’s
being phased out in favor of Power Shell cmd lets.
Virtualization
and remote access
VMs system
To enable Client
Hyper-V, follow these steps:
1.From the desktop Control Panel, click Programs, and
then select Programs And Features.
2.Select Turn Windows Features On Or Off.
3.Select the Hyper-V
option, and make sure that the additional items beneath it are selected as
well, as shown in Figure 8-2. Click OK, and then restart the PC to enable the
features.
Desktop
virtualization options
Rich experience Remote FX uses a built-in software graphics processing
unit (GPU) or hardware GPU on the server to provide 3-D graphics and a rich multimedia
experience
Lower cost Fair Share ensures high system performance by
distributing system resources dynamically
Streamlined
management A simplified wizard makes
setting up desktop virtualization easier with automatic configuration of VMs
Session-based
desktops
Personal VMs
Pooled VMs
Personalization
Application
compatibility
User density
Image count
Cost
Application
virtualization
Microsoft offers
two solutions for application virtualization
- The first is
Remote App, a feature that is based on session virtualization. It enables you to
provision applications remotely through RDS. Applications run on IT-managed
hardware in the data center. By moving them from the endpoint to the data
center, you can better manage the security and continuity of confidential data
- The second
solution is App-V, which is part of MDOP. It works by packaging apps that can
be streamed from a server and run without requiring an application
installation. Users can access their applications dynamically from almost
anywhere on any authorized PC just by clicking and running a package
User
Experience Virtualization (UE-V)
debuted in MDOP
along with Windows 8. This enterprise feature allows administrators to
centralize applications and Windows settings in the data center, enabling users
to access their desktop applications virtually anywhere, on their choice of
devices
A new feature
called Work Folders, introduced in Windows 8.1, offers significant improvements
over Folder Redirection and Offline Files.
Backup and
recovery options in
Windows 10
lists the functions available from the Advanced
Options menu
OPTION
|
DESCRIPTION
|
System
Restore
|
Allows you to
choose a restore point created earlier and restore the system configuration.
|
System Image
Recovery
|
Replaces
everything on the computer with a system image created using the Windows
Backup utility from Windows 7 or later. (In the April update to Windows 10
Technical Preview, this utility is available in the desktop Control Panel,
via the System Image Backup link, at the bottom of the File History option.)
|
Startup
Repair
|
If you choose
this option, Windows attempts to diagnose and automatically correct common
boot problems.
|
Command
Prompt
|
Opens an
administrative command prompt, where you can use command-line tools such as
Bootrec and Bcdedit.
|
UEFI Firmware
Settings
|
Allows you to
change startup settings such as boot device order and Secure Boot. On an
older PC with a legacy BIOS, this option leads to the Startup Settings menu
instead
|
push-button
reset options
Microsoft
Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset
The Diagnostics
and Recovery Toolset (DaRT) is part of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization
Package (MDOP), which is available by subscription for volume-license customers
with Software Assurance. It also can be acquired for evaluation purposes
through Microsoft MSDN subscriptions
Installing the Windows 10
Technical Preview for phones
There are two
requirements to evaluate Windows 10 Technical Preview on a phone.
Next, you need
to install the Windows Insider app from the Store and sign in using the same
Microsoft account you used to enroll in the desktop preview program
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