Yea this blog is wrong because they just removed the backup GUI. You can do a backup and image using powershell commands just like past Windows versions.
That's still user-hostile. Don't get me wrong, as a Windows sysadmin I love Powershell and use it daily to accomplish various tasks. I have no problem with rolling my own scheduled powershell script to perform a backup, but if if I have to write a script to back up my data I'm not actually using a 'built in system utility' so much as I'm .. y'know, writing a script to back up my files.
That's fine. As per windows since 2.0, you can copy files to another disk then using the GUI.
Can also confirm. It's just like in 8.0 - lower left corner of the backup dialog.
This doesn't automatically do it on a schedule.
Can't really comment as I'm still on 8.0.
For me it's enough that it's still there and can be scheduled as a PowerShell command (for files history I use Crashplan anyway) but I agree that if this is the case, it's pretty much hostile for consumer users.