{"id":173374,"date":"2016-07-26T08:03:13","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T06:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=173374"},"modified":"2016-07-26T08:05:25","modified_gmt":"2016-07-26T06:05:25","slug":"windows-10-anniversary-update-the-new-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/173374-windows-10-anniversary-update-the-new-features.html","title":{"rendered":"Windows 10 Anniversary update &#8211; the new features"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Windows 10 Anniversary Update will be available for free from 2 August 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0update promises to bring a number of new features to Microsoft\u2019s operating system, including those highly requested by users.<\/p>\n<p>International publications have released their reviews of the operating system&#8217;s update, and detailed the new features which come with it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2016\/7\/25\/12269736\/microsoft-windows-10-anniversary-update-features-review\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Verge<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/07\/25\/windows-10-anniversary-update\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Engadget<\/strong><\/a> listed the new features users can expect come 2 August, as detailed below.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Windows Ink <\/strong>&#8211; provides support for a user&#8217;s stylus and a central location for built-in and third-party apps. Includes updated sticky notes and sketchpad.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Microsoft Edge extensions<\/strong> &#8211; support for extensions in Edge, which will work similarly to Chrome extensions.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cortana update<\/strong> &#8211; more functionality from Cortana and improved intelligence.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Improved UI<\/strong> &#8211; improvements to the operating system&#8217;s user interface, including a new dark theme.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Automatic time zone setting<\/strong> &#8211; the PC&#8217;s clock automatically adjusts when travelling.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Windows Hello<\/strong> &#8211; use your face to log into Windows via your camera, with new integration for apps and websites.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Windows 10 apps on Xbox One<\/strong> &#8211; the Xbox One will get Windows apps, including Cortana support.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bash support<\/strong> &#8211; will\u00a0integrate the Bash command line shell and support for Ubuntu Linux binaries into Windows 10.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Project to PC<\/strong> &#8211; &#8220;similar to remote desktop&#8221;, project to a PC from your phone or another PC.<\/li>\n<li><strong>New Skype app<\/strong> &#8211; a universal Skype app.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Windows 10<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/172606-10-settings-in-windows-10-you-should-disable.html\">10 settings in Windows 10 you should disable<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/172798-windows-10-collects-excessive-personal-data.html\">Windows 10 collects excessive personal data<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Windows 10 Anniversary Update will be available from 2 August 2016 &#8211; here&#8217;s what to expect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":127880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[36,38236,26970],"class_list":["post-173374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-active","tag-anniversary-update","tag-windows-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173374"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173376,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173374\/revisions\/173376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}