<P> Windows 10 includes DirectX 12, alongside WDDM 2.0 . Unveiled March 2014 at GDC, DirectX 12 aims to provide "console - level efficiency" with "closer to the metal" access to hardware resources, and reduced CPU and graphics driver overhead . Most of the performance improvements are achieved through low - level programming, which allow developers to use resources more efficiently and reduce single - threaded CPU bottlenecking caused by abstraction through higher level APIs . DirectX 12 will also feature support for vendor agnostic multi-GPU setups . WDDM 2.0 introduces a new virtual memory management and allocation system to reduce workload on the kernel - mode driver . </P> <P> Windows Media Center was discontinued, and is uninstalled when upgrading from a previous version of Windows . Upgraded Windows installations with Media Center will receive the paid app Windows DVD Player free of charge for a limited, but unspecified, time . Microsoft had previously relegated Media Center and integrated DVD playback support to a paid add - on beginning on Windows 8 due to the cost of licensing the required DVD playback related patents, and the increasing number of PC devices that have no optical drives . </P> <P> The OneDrive built - in sync client, which was introduced in Windows 8.1, no longer supports offline placeholders for online - only files in Windows 10 . This functionality was re-added in Windows 10 version 1709, under the name "OneDrive Files On - Demand". </P> <P> Users are no longer able to synchronize Start menu layouts across all devices associated with a Microsoft account . A Microsoft developer justified the change by explaining that a user may have different applications they want to emphasize on each device that they use, rather than use the same configuration across each device . The ability to automatically install a Windows Store app across all devices associated with an account was also removed . </P>

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