PC World - USA (2020-03)

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from the Microsoft Store app, either. As long
as the app is trusted, it can be downloaded
from a website, USB key, or another location.
That’s a big change from Windows 10 S.
All this is going to have interesting
follow-on effects, including:

WINDOWS 10X WON’T
REQUIRE ANTI-MALWARE
As with Windows 10 S, Microsoft believes
that relying on signed and trusted
applications will remove the need for anti-
malware applications, even possibly including
Windows Defender. That means the
performance overhead that anti-malware
requires can be re-allocated to other areas

within the OS, Microsoft executives said.

WINDOWS UPDATES WILL

TA K E 9 0 S E CO N DS

According to Andrew Clinick, a Microsoft

partner group program manager, Windows

10X won’t require more than 90 seconds to

update your PC. How? For one, they’ll take

place in the background. Clinick also said that

Windows 10X will operate a bit differently

than Windows 10, in that the operating

system will be downloaded as a separate

state, presumably as a patched copy of the

OS that will exist entirely separate from the

unpatched OS. You’ll apparently have one

version of Windows 10X running in the

Windows apps like Photos will be the most commonly used within Windows 10X, certainly.