The first day on Windows 10: 14 million units and a few surprises

Microsoft Reports to the successes: in the first day of the release of a new, tenth version of Windows, install it on the 14 millions of computers . Within a few weeks the automatic update will be available for everyone to upgrade owners 7th and 8th versions OSes. In parallel, Microsoft releases patches fixes to bugs that were found in recent days.

Windows 10 the first version of the OS , which Microsoft provides legal owners of previous versions for free. This, coupled with the fact that the "top ten" very much "finished" since the "Group of Eight", which suggests that users will upgrade the system much faster than it happened with previous versions of OSes.

From the surprises that awaited the new users of the system are the following.

Updates (patches) can now be downloaded by the decision of the operating system - the system no longer offers to download them by the user. Perhaps this was done to improve the safety of the users. However, experienced users can configure it through Group Policy (gpedit.msc).

Download Windows distribution system made peer2peer - so Microsoft hedge against overload their servers. This system, which was first submitted the protocol BitTorrent, has long been used by different companies for the distribution of digital content (for example, purchased digital versions of games). If for some reason you feel sorry for your outbound traffic, this feature is turned off in the settings.



About an unpleasant surprise сообщил Fund Mozilla , develops, among other products, the browser Firefox. In Windows 10 appeared appointment system default programs for different tasks, and the default browser is now also need to configure a special menu.



This adjustment can be done during installation, or at any time during operation. At the same time the browser itself can not make themselves the default browser - probably, again for security reasons. If the user agrees to the proposal to establish its main browser, the system opens the menu for general settings, default programs, where the user has to find the section «Web» and change to the desired program.

This situation has angered the command Mozilla, and how to блоге, and in an open letter to Microsoft, director of the foundation, Chris Byrd called this move "aggressive" and aims to simplify the procedure for changing the browser for a more just, in his view, the relationship with the user. Microsoft's response letter described the situation in the way that the user settings if you want to be able to change yourself - and if the statistics on the use of OSes that will gather the company, tell her about the need to change the interface, it will do it.

Source: geektimes.ru/post/259610/