While many analysts believe Windows 8 made sagging PC sales even worse, it's unclear if Windows 10 will spur the industry back to growth. Microsoft skipped the name Windows 9, as if to distance itself further from the last release. Microsoft and PC makers want to erase the memory of the last big update, 2012's Windows 8, which alienated many with its jarring, unwieldy design. Still, the company insists Windows 10 will seem familiar to users of Windows 7, the six-year-old operating system still running on most PCs. Microsoft boss Satya Nadella described HoloLens as 'magical' but wouldn't say how much it will cost It has new features, a streamlined Web browser called Edge and a desktop version of Cortana, the online assistant that is Microsoft's answer to Google Now and Apple's Siri. The firm also showed off an augmented reality headset called HoloLens (pictured) running the software.
Experts say the feature was an understandable one to try and include - but a disaster in practise. 'But it does allow anyone in your Skype or Outlook or Hotmail contacts lists to waltz onto your Wi-Fi network - should they ever wander within range of it or visit your home (or hop onto it secretly from hundreds of yards away).' 'For networks you choose to share access to, the password is sent over an encrypted connection and stored in an encrypted file on a Microsoft server, and then sent over a secure connection to your contacts' phone if they use Wi-Fi Sense and they're in range of the Wi-Fi network you shared,' Microsoft says. And you're always in control with it-you choose whether to get on Wi-Fi, stay on, or jump off.' The Krebs on Security blog says the feature is 'an accident waiting to happen' 'This brilliant new feature, which Microsoft has dubbed Wi-Fi Sense, doesn't share your WiFi network password per se - it shares an encrypted version of that password. 'It can do a lot things for you to get you connected to the Internet using Wi-Fi, so you don't have to.
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