Windows 10 Lean

2018 the First version information Windows 10 Lean for cheap devices

At the end of April, 2018 it became known of the new version of Windows 10 intended for cheap smartphones, tablets and computers. It is about Windows 10 Lean which needs less memory and which is deprived of a set of traditional applications, including the Internet Explorer browser.

References of Windows 10 Lean are detected in test assembly of the operating system at number 17650. Light version "tens" is focused on inexpensive devices with an amount of memory up to 16 Gbytes and takes on 2 Gbytes less places in comparison with a standard distribution kit.

Microsoft will release the version of Lean of the version for Windows 10

For economy of the place on drives and RAM from Windows 10 Lean removed background images, the editor of the register (regedit), the Internet Explorer browser (its place was taken by Edge), the Windows Media Player player, the Mail e-mail client, the expanded PowerShell automation equipment and many other things.

The user of Twitter under the alias Lucan which tested Windows 10 Lean, noted that more than 50 thousand files which are present at the version of Windows 10 Pro are not in this OS.

At the same time the computer platform will not lose the main functionality necessary for normal operation of computers and gadgets. Moreover, features which were not in standard versions of Windows 10 are added: so, telephone API interfaces are by default activated, hinting that Windows 10 Lean can succeed Windows 10 Mobile in smartphones.

As notes the website TechRadar, for Microsoft aims at that devices quickly received the latests version of Windows 10 for what the company and prepared this edition. Also the company conducts work on that on devices to the installed Windows 10 Lean there was no rollback of updates. Perhaps, updates will be established more slowly, but at the same time failures will be less.

In Windows 10 Lean there is no "wall-paper"

It is expected that Microsoft will tell about parts of Windows 10 Lean at own Build 2018 conference which starts at the beginning of May. The cut-down Windows 10 OS debuts together with autumn updating of Redstone 5.^[1]

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