Microsoft Corporation Bringing Game Mode to Windows to Enhance Gaming Performance

Also, you may want to change the wait time as it is set to 15 minutes by default. Similar features are present in other major browsers, but only Microsoft Edge has a full bar dedicated to previewing tab content. And the web notes also improved; it gives similar experience as Windows Ink.

Internally referred to as “Windows Goodbye”, the feature intelligently locks your device when you are away from your computer.

“For example, if you were working on a PowerPoint deck on your laptop, when you later return to your desktop, a link to that deck appears in Action Center”.

If you don’t read the patch notes for all those updates Microsoft makes you install, here’s a heads up: you really should.

The new feature is now part of the Xbox app but according to MSpoweruser, the setting will be moved elsewhere by the time it goes fully public.

Microsoft says in a blog on its website that it is committed to protecting consumers’ privacy with the product. They’ve also cleaned up the entire privacy setup experience, making it simpler to define user privacy parameters. A new Achievement tracking overlay, Gamerscore Leaderboard, new Cortana design, and background music controls round out the Xbox One updates.

Windows 10 collects a sweeping array of data-from programs run on the device to details about crashes-and transmits the information to Microsoft, where it’s analyzed, the company has maintained, to safeguard customers’ machines and to improve the operating system.

Microsoft has announced its new “Windows Developers Day” live stream on February 8 wherein developers will be able to get a closer look at some of the upcoming developer features that its Windows 10 Creators Update can offer.

Location: Various location activity is stored, as well as the last known location of your Windows devices. Microsoft has not detailed how the feature actually works; however, Windows Insiders will start to see some of the visual elements in Insider builds, with the feature being fully operational in builds shortly thereafter. Our friends at Windows Central found Dynamic Lock in build 15002, a service which tries to detect when you’re no longer sitting in front of your notebook so it can lock the system.

Microsoft continues to dish out new Windows 10 preview builds to Windows Insiders at a furious pace.