Fixing Windows 10: New build tweaks Edge, sucks in Skype

[tangor]

Microsoft's latest preview release of Windows 10, build 10565, adds several features and refinements as the company works towards a major update for all users.

The new build is available to anyone signed up for the Windows Insider preview scheme.

Microsoft is now bundling three communications apps with Windows 10: Skype Video, Phone, and Messaging. Three apps seems overkill, but these are universal apps and their simplicity is well suited to mobile devices. This build integrates the Skype apps with the Action Center, so that if you miss a call, for example, you can call back or send a message via quick links.

[theregister.co.uk...]

More than Edge in this. Skype, Cortana, etc. Even Printers.

[bill]

It's good to see MS taking advantage of their investment in Skype. I thought they should have been busy integrating this a lot earlier.

After Mr. Snowden revealed that Skype security was no better than a sieve I don't use it much myself, but there are times it comes in handy.

[IanCP]

but these are universal apps and their simplicity is well suited to mobile devices

Probably why I haven't noticed it on the Laptop or Desktop PC.

[tangor]

This SETTING THE PRINTER DEFAULT is my happy point.

I wish I could get happy with Win 10. Parts of it are creepy, but the whole thing seems so... so ... unfinished.

This move to "service" as opposed to "license" gives me the jitters.