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MICROSOFT WINDOWS 10 - Also of Interest to Console Owners

21/1/2015

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Resembling a beautiful, exotic flower spreading its petals to reveal a trembling, hissing, vibrantly mauve stamen, Microsoft has parted its sexcloak of mystery to reveal some genuinely interesting details about its forthcoming Windows 10 operating system.

Wobble wobble. Hissssss.

Here is the first of those details: the company is pulling together the disparate strands of its PC and console divisions, like a novice magician hastily gathering up a premature eruption of sleeve-doves. 

Before we get lost in the obscurity of our own similes, here's what that sort of means: you will soon be able to stream Xbox One games to any system running Windows 10, via wifi. As if that wasn't electrifying enough, the firm is also launching universal Windows apps to run across computers, phones, tablets and its Xbox One console. Now pay rapt attention to this: an integral element of Windows 10 will be its Siri-esque, Halo-inspired, personal digital assistant Cortana. 

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TROLOHOLOLOL

And then this: the Xbox One and Windows 10 versions of 
Fable Legends - the upcoming co-operative role-playing game - will allow players from both systems to mingle with one another, like they're in some weird, pan-species, pick-up club, we'd imagine. 

And finally this: The Microsoft announcement also included details of something called Windows Holographic. Though still in early development, Holographic uses a Google Glass-style 'Hololens' headset to augment a user's surroundings - projecting game elements onto walls, or allowing them to interact with 3D graphs or models, or virtual puppies. 

So, not a hologram at all then - they might as well have called it Windows Guaranteed Time Travelling Wormhole Device - but still a pretty heady "jam".

Oh look! Here's a video showing you what we're talking about...

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Hello, everyone. Batman here. Something a lot of people don't know about 
me is that, when I'm not fighting crime, I like sending Facebook 
friend requests to people with the same name as me. I'm now friends with
over 47 Batmans from all over the world...
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Gaijintendo
21/1/2015 03:12:46 pm

I wanted to visit Batman, but my partner thinks it is too close to Syria.

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Stuart N. Hardy
21/1/2015 04:10:52 pm

I'll only be upgrading from Windows 7 if there's an option to disable that Metro touchscreen guff and bring back the old start button. And the whole digital assistant thing doesn't sound convincing... did they learn nothing from that bloody paperclip? Hololens seems impressive and it's a bit closer to how I imagined 2015 should be - would have preferred some sort of hoverboard announcement though.

Sigh, back to waiting yet another 2 months to play GTA V on PC. "Master race" indeed, we're more like a bunch of sweaty, game starved tramps.

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Chris link
21/1/2015 04:53:15 pm

I hope you really are Stuart.

I'm reliably informed the Metro nonsense is gone when you run Win 10 on a desktop.

There's also a free upgrade option for Win 7/8 users - although I suspect that won't extend to the OEM version, which means I won't be bothering (or benefiting).

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George
21/1/2015 09:00:18 pm

I am quite excited about Windows 10, not least because it will allow copy/paste from apps to the terminal 30 years after other operating systems. Woohoo! Rock and/or Roll!

But! I digress. That holodeck thingy looks cool, yet it still requires a clunky headset. Let's make a quick list of consumer headsets that captured sizeable market share:

...

And now a list of some notable failures:

--80s arcade VR
--Nintendo Virtual Boy
--3D TVs (nobody wants them)
--Google Glass (nobody can buy it)
--Occulus Rift (it's a developer toy)

Do you see?

Until AR is grafted onto my body Deus Ex style I'm simply not interested.

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FEoD link
22/1/2015 12:21:00 am

Oh NOW Batman is a Digitiser character... Where was this article when the Brown Trumpet competition was launched, eh?

This PC/XBone crossover nonsense sounds like some red headed stepchild of the godawful GFWL. Why would I want to play against prepubescent American children with foul mouths and no grasp of biology Microsoft?

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