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Windows 10: Charms Bar Removed, No Start Screen For Desktops
jones_supa writes Late last week, Microsoft pushed out a new build (9926) of Windows 10 to those of you who are running the Technical Preview. The latest version comes with many new features, some easily accessible, others bubbling under, but two big changes are now certain: the Charms bar is dead, and Start Screen for large devices is no more. Replacing the Charms bar is the Action Center, which has many of the same shortcuts as the Charms bar, but also has a plethora of other information too. Notifications are now bundled into the Action Center and the shortcuts to individual settings are still easily accessible from this window. The Start Screen is no longer present for desktop users, the options for opening it are gone. Continuum is the future, and it has taken over what the Start Screen initiated with Windows 8.
Apple already came out with "Continuity". So Microsoft's "Continuum" sounds pretty similar. You might just have to knuckle down and live with a new term for seamless transitions between phone+tablet and laptop+desktop devices. Of all the terms they could have chosen, "Continu*" don't seem too bad.
But in Apple's case, it was used not to refer to a "contin*" between the "look and feel" of the OS on different devices; but rather an actual, functional, feature (being able to start a document on one device, and then seamlessly (and automagically) transfer it to another class of device.
But that's ok, it has been a LONG time since MS had an "original" thought that didn't didn't actually originate in Cupertino.
$10 says that the so called free upgrade to windows 10 from windows 7 will entail a mandatory subscription a year after installing.
lol, you are a fucking idiot.