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Chapter 12. Tablets, Laptops &

Hybrids

If its recent experiments with Windows show anything at all, it’s that
Microsoft is betting on the future of mobile. Fewer and fewer computers
will be tethered to desks. More and more will be carried around—and most

of them will have touchscreens. Microsoft believes that so strongly that it’s
designing all its new apps to have big, fat, widely spaced buttons for finger

touches.

But touchscreen friendliness isn’t the only nod Windows 10 makes to
easing the lives of road warriors. This chapter covers a motley collection of

additional tools for anyone who travels.

Battery Saver

It’s common for smartphones to have a battery-saver mode. That’s where
the phone, upon dropping to a low level of battery remaining, switches off a
lot of nonessential background activities and features to save power. The

screen dims, there are fewer animations, email and Facebook don’t get
checked in the background—all in the name of extending your phone’s
battery long enough to get you through the day.

And now the same feature comes to Windows laptops and tablets.

You can turn it on manually by opening the Action Center ( +A, or tap
on the taskbar, or swipe in from the right on a touchscreen) and hitting

“Battery saver.”

Or you can wait until your battery hits 20 percent remaining, which is when
Battery Saver kicks in automatically.