On Thursday Microsoft has released a new insider Preview of Windows 10th The most important innovation: The Edge Browser is capable of streaming. With just one click, users will soon be able to send to the TV pictures, videos or music from your PC.
Microsoft Edge browser makes increasing pressure on Google Chrome. With a new insider Preview of Windows 10 that Microsoft released on Thursday, the browser gets streaming capabilities. The "Cast media to device" feature allows future, YouTube videos to stream to your TV Facebook photos, music and more from your PC. The big advantage over Google's cast extrension for Chrome: Under Windows 10 separate hardware such as Google Chrome Cast Streaming Stick for transmission is necessary.
No additional hardware required
Prerequisite for streaming from Windows 10 PC via Microsoft Edge are DLNA or Miracast-enabled devices - such as a TV or the Xbox One - on the receiver side on the same network. The transmission is then easily work: The Edge Browser on the menu click, click "Cast media to device" and select a suitable network device.
Microsoft Edge streams no protected content
A large hook has 10 built-in streaming capability over the competition, however, even in Windows: transferred Up to now, no protected contents. So the moment can be, for example, no videos from Netflix or Hulu stream. We can only hope that Microsoft will change this with a later version of its current operating system. Then it would be an attractive alternative to streaming sticks and boxes.
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