Microsoft to webcast Build keynote Wednesday morning

Two-and-a-half hour presentation begins at 8:30 a.m. PT, 11:30 a.m. ET

Microsoft will live stream the opening keynote address of its Build developers conference on Wednesday starting at 8:30 PT (11:30 ET).

The webcast can be viewed from the Build news website and Microsoft's Channel 9.

Microsoft, as usual, has not listed the keynote speakers, but undoubtedly CEO Satya Nadella will participate -- probably as the opening act before handing off demos and other bits to executives like Terry Myerson, who leads the operating systems group; Joe Belfiore, chief of Windows' design; and Julie White, lead on Office product management. Those three have been prominent speakers at recent Microsoft press events.

Build 2015 runs through Friday at San Francisco's Moscone Center, the locale for the third straight year.

Microsoft is expected to spend much of its time tomorrow talking up Windows 10 and the next generation of Office, both the semi-cloud Office 365 and the on-premises Office 2016, as well as development tools for apps on all three platforms. The Redmond, Wash. company will also probably tout -- again -- the benefits of creating desktop applications and mobile apps for Windows 10.

Microsoft has so far painted its Windows 10 monetization plan in only the broadest terms: Tomorrow would be a good time to have that conversation, as the company must persuade developers that it's in their financial interest to jump on the bandwagon.

It's possible that Microsoft will use the conference keynote to flesh out Windows 10, including a more specific release date. Other information, however, ranging from support timeline to details on the two update tempos offered enterprises, will probably be left for another day.

Executives typically focus on the topic at hand, in this case, development, rather than stray into those other subjects.

Build in general, and the keynote in particular, will be one of the most important pre-launch opportunities for Microsoft to make the Windows 10 case to the media and non-developer enthusiasts, not only for personal computers -- which have been in a sales slump since 2012's June quarter -- but also for mobile.

Gartner last month laid out Microsoft's problem when it estimated that Windows' device operating system share will slip slightly this year to 13.3%, and climb only a percentage point or so -- to 14.4% -- by the end of 2017.

Microsoft has scheduled the Build keynote to run two and a half hours.

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How Connecticut set itself up to be the first gigabit state

Connecticut is moving ahead with a statewide gigabit broadband initiative after resolving a surprisingly simple, but common, issue standing in the way of fiber deployment.

Connecticut needed this. Lately, the only noteworthy contribution my home state has made to the national news is Aaron Hernandez, an apparent psychopath who earned millions of dollars playing football while (allegedly) murdering anyone who looked at him the wrong way.

But it looks like the third smallest state in the country is on its way to becoming the first to offer ubiquitous 1-Gigabit internet to its residents. The website EfficientGov.com has a pretty comprehensive breakdown on the project: 46 municipalities that make up about half of the state's population have agreed to endorse a plan for public/private partnerships to expand 1-Gig broadband internet access.

The "pubic/private partnerships" part of the plan likely makes it more achievable. In other areas, attempts at municipal-run broadband projects have created mountains of debt in their worst cases and have led to heated legislative battles in their best.

Chattanooga, Tennessee, is a good example of how difficult municipal broadband can be. The city's broadband is among the fastest in the country, and its network was built and operated by the city after it had difficulty attracting investment from private ISPs. When the city looked to expand its 1-Gig service to other regions, state lawmakers imposed strict regulations, ultimately culminating in the state of Tennessee filing a lawsuit against the FCC late last month.

The Connecticut State Broadband Initiative attempts to side step the messy political issues by paving the way for private companies to lay the fiber throughout the state and allowing ISPs to use it to provide services.

"It's like building the road — and anyone can drive their cars on it," Connecticut's consumer counsel Elin Katz recently told Backchannel.

It's not always that simple, though. What's different about the Connecticut plan is how it handled what Backchannel contributor Susan Crawford called "the unbelievably difficult issue of attaching wires to poles." She briefly explained how Connecticut addressed this issue:

"Rather than letting pole owners hold up every requestor by creating delays and making demands for special payments (seriously: pole-attachment scuffles are the long-running soap operas of telecom), Connecticut requires pole owners to obey a Single Pole Administrator, adhere to uniform pricing agreements, and act to make way for new wires in a set time. Dramatic stuff. And Connecticut already had passed a statute giving municipalities the right to use a part of a pole, or 'gain,' for any purpose. These two elements made Connecticut an extremely attractive place to string a network."

In fact, the obstacles that pole owners can create for projects like fiber deployment have been well-documented. An article published last May at BroadbandLawAdvisor.com provides detailed instructions on how to deal with pole owners who maybe imposing "fees and charges that are not permitted or exceed permitted regulated levels."

The FCC's National Broadband Plan includes a section that warns that "delays can also result from existing attachers' action (or inaction) to move equipment to accommodate a new attacher, potentially a competitor." Basically, those who own the utility poles can levy fees on any company or organization that tries to work on them, or they can just flat out deny access. The FCC acknowledged that reform is needed in how access to poles is handled.

Connecticut may be an example of how to implement this reform. A Request for Qualifications issued in September explained how the state accomplished this:

"All the utility poles across the state are subject to the central statutory jurisdiction of the Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority," the RFQ read, according to BroadbandAndBreakfast.com. "The established and firm timelines for the entire pole attachment process that the Connecticut regulator has ordered and manages … thus facilitat[es] the deployment of broadband."

Of course, Connecticut faces the same kinds of pushback seen in the states that are embroiled in legal battles over municipal broadband, i.e. lobbyist groups highlighting the risks and occasionally stepping into propaganda territory to sway public opinion. But, as Backchannel's Crawford pointed out, the initiative has already garnered majority support in the state, and it is designed to facilitate competition between private companies, rather than to threaten competition from the state. When pro-business lobbyists argue against a pro-business plan, few people are going to bother listening.

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10 young security companies to watch in 2015

One common thread is helping to make detection and remediation easier

A wealth of young security companies is trying to capitalize on businesses moving toward security platforms that help them respond more quickly when they suffer successful cyberattacks in hopes of limiting the damage they do.

These firms take varying approaches to cybersecurity, including analyzing suspected attacks, automating responses, encrypting to make data theft more difficult, and sorting through alerts triggered by other security platforms to help prioritize responses.

These startups are plowing fertile ground, with corporate customers eager to avoid destructive attacks that can hurt their brand names. At the same time customers are fighting ever more inventive adversaries whose exploits require new defensive approaches.

So they are willing to open their wallets, with 46% of respondents to a Computerworld survey of IT leaders saying their spending on security this year will show double-digit increases while at the same time overall IT spending increases only 4.3% - so security is definitely a priority. In fact it has been for the past 10 years, Computerworld says, getting double-digit boosts in each year.

Here are 10 startups worth watching this year because they bring fresh eyes, talent and investment to problems that continue to plague security executives

Fun fact: John Thompson, Microsoft’s chairman, sits on Illumio’s board.
Why we’re following it: Illumio’s Adaptive Security Platform enforces policies about what specific ports on what machines are allowed to talk to what other ports on what other machines in order to limit that damage a compromised machine can do by limiting what it is capable of doing. This is a valuable asset at a time when breaches are accepted as inevitable. The platform also sends alerts when machines try to violate policies so staff can remediate the problem.

Fun fact: Founders Engel and Mumcuoglu served in the Israeli Defense Force
Why we’re following it: LightCyber’s Magna Breach Detection Platform provides agentless monitoring and analysis of endpoint machines as it looks for signs of possible intrusions. It winnows out incidents that are most likely intrusions and sends alerts, prioritizing and greatly reducing the number of incidents that have to be checked out by human analysts. The company is methodically going about adding integration with other security platforms so Magna Breach has a mechanism for automatically blocking detected threats. Integration partners so far include Palo Alto, Check Point, RSA Arcsight, FortKnox and Microsoft (Active Directory).

Fun fact: The company name comes from its algorithms that look for events that are statistical outliers.
Why we’re following it: Outlier’s detection and forensic tools are designed to help analysts respond to compromises more quickly, making the analysts more efficient. The system passively analyzes endpoints through data gathered by Windows Network Services and Windows Management Instrumentation and triggers alerts when it detects suspicious behavior. The alerts are accompanied by a compilation of the data that led the platform to conclude there was an intrusion, giving analysts a jump on where to check for compromised machines and figure out what action to take.

White House making it easier to get an L-1 visa
Uber's Amsterdam office raided by Dutch authorities
Cisco patches autonomic networking flaws in IOS routers and switches

Leaders: Executive Chairman Steven Chen, President Jeffrey H. Reed, CTO Carlos R. Aguayo
Fun fact: The technology comes from research at Virginia Tech funded by the Department of Defense, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and the Department of Homeland Security that sought a way to identify whether software-defined radios have unauthorized software running on them

Why we’re following it: PFP’s system monitors CPUs to establish baseline radio-frequency activity when devices are known to be performing legitimate tasks. Its analysis engine can detect anomalies from that baseline that indicate the device is running unauthorized processes that could indicate a breach. Its reliance on hardware cues and its physical separation from the devices it monitors make it difficult for attackers to circumvent. It can be used to detect infections on devices delivered from the factory as well as those in the field.

Fun fact: Chief Security Office Justin Harvey has worked for successful security vendors - FireEye/Mandiant and Hewlett-Packard/ArcSight
Why we’re following it: Resolution1’s endpoint agent can identify and verify malicious behavior then automate the resolution workflow. It integrates with third-party security systems to validate alerts they send in order to reduce the number of false-positives security teams have to chase down.

Fun fact: The company says a supercomputer making 19 quadrillion calculations per second would have to work for about 30 times the age of the universe to crack its encryption.
Why we’re following it: Secure Channels offers a platform that enables flexibly encryption parameters that give customers great leeway in determining the strength and complexity of the encryption. Secure Channels’ encryption for data at rest or data in motion quickly breaks it in to varying sized chunks and encrypts each chunk with its own key. The technology gives users the option to first encrypt an entire document, then further encrypt that in chunks so that even when a chunk is decrypted, it doesn’t appear as plain text. Its encryption schemes work with whatever encryption algorithms a business has on hand. The software runs entirely in RAM and randomizes its use of processor clock cycles to disguise patterns in the underlying data.

Fun fact: The company started life under the name Foresight.
Why we’re following it: Sentrix mirrors customers’ Web sites in Amazon Web Services and Azure clouds where it dynamically expands site resources during distributed denial-of-service attacks to keep the sites running until attackers exhaust their resources, give up or move on to easier targets. Data requests that get delivered to customers’ actual Web server back-ends are limited to those seeking the business-logic of the sites, not static content. This is a unique service that supplements other defenses and can keep sites up and running during a range of attack types including distributed denial-of-service, cross-site scripting, cross-site request forgery, SQL injection and website defacement.

Fun fact: The name Swimlane comes from a term used in security operations centers meaning a person’s area of responsibility.
Why we’re following it: Swimlane makes it simpler to gather data from its customers’ various security platforms, evaluate alerts and automate responses and puts all this in the context of faster response time and saving money. It gives each customer flexibility in what security platforms it deploys and reduces the time analysts have to spend figuring out what the current threat is. While other startups may have more money and bigger names, Swimlane is trying to address a real problem expressed by specific customers, which could be a recipe for success.

Fun fact: Tempered’s technology stems from a project at Boeing to secure its manufacturing systems.
Why we’re following it: Tempered’s appliances can create multiple overlay networks within existing network infrastructure, securing traffic in each from all the others, giving businesses the capability to isolate sensitive devices from the Internet, for example, without having to re-architect the entire network. Its founders, Hussey and Mattes, have impressive credentials and have attracted investments of credible venture capital firms.

Fun fact: Evers and Flowers have worked together three times before at nCircle, kozoru and Inquisit.
Why we’re following it: The company uses patented technology to create lightweight malware markers called behavior expressions that can detect all known attacks using a relatively small library of these markers as opposed to traditional signature libraries. For example, it says it can identify all known viruses using just 14 sets of behavior expressions. The company claims that in two years of testing attackers have never been able to compromise its platform protects. It can protect systems against attacks trying to exploit newly found vulnerabilities, so the company has issued its first version for Windows XP machines, which Microsoft no longer patches. It plans to support other Windows operating systems, Linux and Macs by the end of 2015.

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600-211 Implementing Cisco Service Provider Mobility CDMA Networks (SPCDMA)

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QUESTION 1
Which interface carries signaling information between PCF and PDSN?

A. A8
B. A9
C. A10
D. A11

Answer: D

Explanation:

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QUESTION 2
Which underlying protocol is used for RADIUS messages in CDMA?

A. TCP
B. SCTP
C. UDP
D. ICMP

Answer: C

Explanation:

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QUESTION 3
Which protocol is used during PPP negotiation to assign an IP address to the mobile device for a
simple IP call?

A. LCP
B. IPCP
C. CHAP
D. EAP

Answer: B

Explanation:

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QUESTION 4
Which is an attribute in MIP RRQ?

A. Correlation ID
B. NAS-Identifier
C. Framed-IP-Address
D. Care-of-Address
E. Framed-Interface-ID

Answer: D

Explanation:

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QUESTION 5
Which bit in HA Registration Revocation message is used by PDSN/FA to determine Mobile
notification?

A. 'A' bit
B. 'I' bit
C. 'M' bit
D. 'R' bit

Answer: B

Explanation:

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7 critical things to cover in your disaster-recovery plan

As always, you never know when a disaster will strike, so better to have a checklist on hand so that panic doesn’t set in when the network goes down.

1. Creating a plan
Cloud services company Evolve IP has created a list of suggestions for executives to evaluate their current disaster avoidance plans or, should a plan not exist, provide directional measures to protect their information and communications systems.

2. Establish a disaster recovery functional team
Elect one spokesperson from the group for communication. In the event of a multi-location organization each location should have a core team or representative that works with the corporate entity.

3. Risk assessment
Identify risks in the following areas:

Information – What information and information systems are most vital to continue to run the business at an acceptable level?

Communication Infrastructure – What communications (email, toll free lines, call centers, VPNs, Terminal Services) are most vital to continue to run the business at an acceptable level?

Access and Authorization – Who needs to access the above systems and in what secure manner (VPN, SSL, DR Site) in the event of a disaster?

Physical Work Environment – What is necessary to conduct business in an emergency should the affected location not be available?

Internal and External Communication – Who do we need to contact in the event of an emergency and with what information?

4. Cloud-based data centers and applications
Create a written recovery plan that is hosted remotely in a secure and redundant data center. Schedule and test your plan at least once per year or in accordance with regulatory/compliance requirements. Ensure employees can access the hosted environment (both from within the business confines and remotely) during fail-over mode from the designated locations.

5. Premise-based data centers
Produce a written recovery plan that is stored remotely. Identify water entry areas throughout the building and have sandbags available. Install VESDA smoke detection and thermal detectors. Have a fail-safe alarm system. Place high-temperature sensors on fire sprinkler heads if non-water based fire-suppression is unavailable. Keep your data center above street level. If you are in a single-floor building, raise your racks from the floor. Employ multiple Internet service/data providers and test for failover regularly.

6. Data back-up
Tape back-ups should be removed daily and stored in a secure, easily accessed public building with at least 2-3 individuals having keys to the location. Back-up data to a geographically distant location, either electronically, or ensure physical media is in a diverse location.

7. Hosted telephony systems
Employ multiple Internet providers and test for failover regularly. Verify that critical phone numbers have the ability to call forward in an unreachable condition.

8. Call center
Identify key business applications required and how call center staff will access these applications from alternative locations. Identify critical call types that must be answered and determine mechanism to segregate those calls. Identify alternative locations to house the staff with the appropriate systems, phones, and work environment. Ensure administrative staff has the ability to remotely change call routing, messaging, and related call center functionality.

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600-503 Designing with Cisco Network Programmability

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QUESTION 1
Which two advantages of an overlay network that consists of virtual switches on supervisors
compare with those of physical networks? (Choose two.)

A. Ability to change the logical network topology more easily.
B. Ability to experience higher performance of traffic forwarding.
C. Overlay networks integrate with virtual machines more closely
D. They can support more routing protocols.
E. They are more secure.

Answer: A,C

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QUESTION 2
Which two options are challenges to migrate a traditional network to an SDN type of network?
(Choose two.)

A. would cost to replace traditional network devices to new devices
B. would need more operators to run a more complicated network
C. would need operators with more programming skill
D. would need more bandwidth to secure redundant paths
E. would need to remove existing network management tools

Answer: A,C

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QUESTION 3
Which statement is an example of a requirement that is not well-formed?

A. The application should provide status messages every 60 seconds.
B. The application user interface must be easy to use.
C. The application must validate that the IP addresses that are input by users are valid IPv4 or
IPv6 addresses.
D. The application must be available for end users between 8am and 8pm EST/EDT, Monday
through Friday.
E. The application should restart within 15 seconds.

Answer: B

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QUESTION 4
Which option is a requirement represented in an Agile software development methodology?

A. interviews
B. product functions
C. product requirements document
D. user stories
E. home stenographer

Answer: D

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QUESTION 5
Which four components should be considered when gathering business requirements for a
customer project? (Choose four.)

A. alignment to corporate goals
B. compliance regulations
C. development team location
D. commitments to customers
E. supplier capabilities
F. business unit providing the developers

Answer: A,B,D,E

Explanation:

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Windows 10: The best tips, tricks, and tweaks

Windows 10 may still be in beta, but it already has some fun and handy, hidden new features worth exploring. Check 'em out here.

Digging deep into Windows 10
Despite still being very much an early preview, Windows 10 is already brimming with dozens of handy tweaks and tricks—and, because the operating is still in preview, a handful of those tricks unlock powerful functionality hidden to everyday users.

Others, though, simply let you mold some of Windows 10’s new features into the shape you see fit. Here are some of the most useful Windows 10 tweaks, tricks, and tips we’ve found. Be warned: Some of these may break as the operating system evolves, though we plan to update this article over time. Got any tricks of your own? Share them in the comments!

This is(n't quite) Sparta(n)
Let’s start by unlocking one of those powerful new features. Microsoft’s building a lightweight new browser for Windows 10: Project Spartan. And while Spartan isn’t available in the latest Windows 10 builds yet, you can enable its experimental Edge rendering engine in Windows 10’s Internet Explorer 11.

Just open IE11 and type about:flags in the address bar. In the page that appears, simply set “Experimental Web Platform Features” to Enabled, then restart the browser. Setting the “Custom User Agent” string to Enabled as well will trick websites that nerf the old IE engine into using Spartan Edge.

The Edge engine is considerably faster than IE11’s default engine in tests, but be warned: It’s flagged as experimental for a reason.

Revamped clock and calendar
While we’re enabling new features, let’s activate Windows 10’s sleek new clock and calendar. Here’s how, as first discovered by Winbeta. It requires a (simple) registry edit, so be sure to make a backup first.

Right-click on the Start button and select Run. In the window that appears, type regedit and then press Enter. Navigate through the file system to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > Software > Microsoft > Windows > CurrentVersion > ImmersiveShell, then right-click in an empty portion of the main windows and select New > DWORD (32-bit) Value. Name it "UseWin32TrayClockExperience" and boom! You’re done. Just open the calendar from the taskbar as normal and bask in the sleek, new look.

Make Cortana's ears perk up
Cortana’s finally made the leap to the PC in Windows 10, assuming many of the operating system’s search functions, even though her first iteration could still use some polish. (That’s what Previews are for!) But by default, she doesn’t listen for your commands.

If you’d like to be able to just bark commands at your PC, open Cortana by clicking the search field in the taskbar and select the three-lined options menu in the upper-left corner. Select Settings for the list, then simply enable the “Let Cortana respond when you say ‘Hey Cortana’” option. You’ll need an active microphone for this to work, of course.

While you’re poking around Cortana’s options, you can dive into the Notebook menu to fine-tune exactly what personal data Microsoft’s digital assistant can access. Remember, however, that like Google Now, Cortana’s effectiveness is directly related to how much she knows about you.

Turn off File Explorer's Quick Access view
When you open File Explorer in Windows 10, it defaults to a new Quick Access view that shows your most frequently accessed folders and recently viewed files. I love it, personally, but if you’d rather File Explorer defaulted to the “This PC” view found in Windows 8, here’s how.

Open File Explorer, then select View > Options from the Ribbon. A Folder Options window will open. Click the “Open File Explorer” drop-down menu at top, then select the “This PC” option. Click OK and you’re done!

Declutter your taskbar
Two of Windows 10’s standout features are its Cortana search integration and newly added virtual desktop support—but they claim a sizeable chunk of your taskbar. If you don’t care about either (or don’t mind using Windows key + Tab to leap through virtual desktops) you can reclaim that onscreen real estate.

Everything starts by right-clicking an empty section of your taskbar. In the menu that appears, deselecting “Show Task View” eliminates the Task View (virtual desktop) icon, while selecting Search > Disabled removes Cortana’s “Ask me anything” box.

Secret, powerful new command line tools
Windows 10 packs a slew of nifty new command line features, including—hallelujah!—the ability to copy and paste inside the command prompt with Crtl + C and Crtl + V.

To activate the goodies, open the command prompt. Right-click its title bar, then select Properties. You can find and enable the new features under the Experimental tab.

Fresh keyboard shortcuts!
Windows 10 packs a handful of fresh keyboard shortcuts, all tied to newfound abilities inside the revamped operating system. There are many more than we can list here, so head over to PCWorld’s guide to Windows 10’s keyboard shortcuts to learn all about them.

Move open programs between virtual desktops
Virtual desktops let you segregate your open apps into discrete areas—literally multiple, virtualized versions of your PC’s desktops. Switching between open virtual desktops is easy enough using Task View or Windows key + Tab, while Alt + Tab jumps you between open apps across all desktops. There’s also a way to actually shift an open app from one virtual desktop to another if you’d like to shuffle things around.

Simply open the virtual desktop housing the open app in question. Click the Task View button in your taskbar—it looks like two papers in front of one another—to bring up an overarching view of your open desktops as well as the open apps inside this virtual desktop. Right-click the program you’d like to move, then select Move to > Desktop [desired virtual desktop number]. Done!

Disable the Photos app's auto-enhance
Windows 10’s Photos app has been rebuilt as a universal app that scales across device types. It’s still more than a bit buggy, but one notable feature already stands out: It will automatically auto-enhance your pictures for clarity and punch.

If you’d rather Photos left your pictures alone, open the app’s Settings—symbolized by a gear in the left-hand column. Under the Viewing & Editing section, simply disable the “Automatically enhance my photos when they can be improved” option.

Offline Maps
Speaking of apps, the revamped universal Maps app, like any maps tool worth using (and unlike the Windows 8 Maps app), packs an offline maps feature. Click the Settings (gear) icon in Maps, then select Download or update maps under the “Offline maps” header.

You’ll be bounced to the Settings app, where you’ll be able to select which continent, then country whose offline map you’d like to download. (If you’re downloading a U.S. map, you'll also have to select which state you need.) Helpfully, Windows tells you how large the download will be before you start scraping the maps.

Enable tablet mode
Windows 10’s Continuum, which dynamically switches from the traditional desktop to a more Metro-like interface when you’re using a touchscreen, is supposed to kick into action when you connect or disconnect a keyboard from your Windows hybrid or tablet. But what if you’re using a standard PC and just plain love full-screen apps and the Live-Tile-strewn Start screen, rather than the Start menu?

Easy! Activate tablet mode. Open up Windows 10’s new Action Center—the small icon that looks like a comic-book word bubble in your system tray—and click the Tablet Mode button. It’ll turn blue, the desktop will darken, and Cortana’s desktop box will shrink to an icon to indicate you’ve made the switch. Now bask in the full-screen apps and Start menu, since that's obviously your thing.

Expand the Start menu to full-screen
If you like the look of the full-screen Start menu but still rock a mouse and want to stick to windowed Metro apps, fear not: You can have your cake and eat it too. Simply open the Start menu, then click the “Expand Start” button in the upper-right corner to have it mimic the Windows 8 Start screen (and the picture in the previous slide) every time you click the Start button. The rest of the desktop continues to behave normally.

Customize your Start menu
Finally, don’t forget to make the Start menu your own. If you appreciate the blend of the traditional interface with the Live Tiles, note that you can right-click on any tile and select Resize to alter the tile’s dimensions—just like on the Windows 8 Start screen.

Alternatively, if you loathe Live Tiles and the Metro interface with the ferocity of a thousand suns, you can also right-click on every one of the defaults in the Start menu and select Uninstall to wipe them from your system. Repopulate them with desktop software of your choosing—you can right-click any app or program and select Pin to Start—and before you know it, it’ll be like the Windows 7 Start menu all over again.

Try it yourself!
Still with me, and wondering how to get in on all this cutting-edge action yourself? Check out PCWorld’s guide on how to install the Windows 10 Preview for all the nitty-gritty information you need to know to start using—or silencing—Cortana today.

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