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New Windows 10 Preview For PCs With Bash, Cross-Device Cortana Released

Posted by msmash on from the microsoft-camp dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Microsoft has released a new Windows 10 preview for PCs. The preview, dubbed build 14316, comes with a range of features including support for Bash, which Microsoft had announced at its developer conference Build last week. Users interested in it can enable the feature by turning on Developer Mode (detailed instructions here), searching for "Windows Features," choosing "Turn Windows features on or off," and enable Windows Subsystem for Linux (Beta). To get Bash installed, open Command Prompt and type in "bash" (without the quotes.) Other features included in the new build include low battery notification, find my phone (ring my phone), and the ability to share map directions across devices. Additionally, the company has also released a new universal Skype app.

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  1. Typical Microsoft by U2xhc2hkb3QgU3Vja3M · · Score: 3, Informative

    Users interested in it can enable the feature by turning on Developer Mode (Settings - Update - Security - For developers)

    Let me get this straight: to enable Developer Mode, you need to go into settings (okay), update (wait, what?), security (why?), for developers (could be named a bit better IMHO).

    No wonder I always feel lost when I use Microsoft products. They can't even make a proper navigation tree.

    1. Re:Typical Microsoft by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      As apposed to Androids completely intuitive:

      Settings->About Device->Click on the build number 10 times->Go back to Settings->Click the now visible Developer Options->Enable Developer Options

  2. Re:trumpet winsock:win95:cygwin bash:win10 by squiggleslash · · Score: 4, Informative

    Pedantic note:

    No it didn't. Even if you count from Windows 1.0, and start counting from 1983 despite it not really being available to the public until 1985, that'd be 12 years until Windows 95, or 11 until Wolverine (the official Microsoft Windows for Workgroups extension.)

    But in practice there wasn't really a high demand for TCP/IP until well after 1990.

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  3. They Did? -- "Windows PowerShell ISE" by CrashNBrn · · Score: 4, Informative

    Windows PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE):
    ---> C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell_ise.exe

    Or you can launch PowerShell via the console:
    ---> C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe