Microsoft appears not intent to perk up PC sales with the Windows 10 because, for the first time, the Redmondian company released a new operating system and then offered it to consumers for a free update, particularly those PCs that are capable of running the software, details Re/code.
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Unless you are actively reading, checking and carefully choosing your options during the installation, the operating system will swap any rival browsers you’d set as the default on Windows 7 or 8.1 to Microsoft Edge.
“It now takes more than twice the number of mouse clicks, scrolling through content and a few technical sophistication for people to reassert the choices they had previously made in earlier versions of Windows”, said Chris Beard, CEO of the Mozilla Foundation, which develops Firefox, in a blog post published shortly after Windows 10 was released in late July.
Although Microsoft is offering Windows 10 for free – for a limited time, at least – not all of us on Windows 7 or 8 and 8.1 are ready and willing to upgrade.
Have you been seeing build 10572 available on your Windows 10 Mobile device?
I wonder how many of us could say that? The newly announced flagships – the Lumia 950 and Lumia 950 XL will be the only handsets to come pre-loaded with the OS out-of-the-box, while existing Windows phones will be getting the update starting in December.
“Windows is going to have a wallet concept”, Belfiore said. The public didn’t receive Windows 8 well, and it tarnished Microsoft’s branding.
According to TIME magazine, who first unearthed the new charges, this is not the first time Microsoft has tried to push users to pay for Solitaire. It even introduced a laptop with an innovative hinge design that packs a lot into a small and light enclosure. Microsoft topped it all off with a keynote packed with the enthusiasm that you expect from an Apple event.
Meanwhile the outdated and infamously infuriating Internet Explorer accounts for a meagre 5 per cent of traffic from Windows 10 users. Every device in the ecosystem works with a cohesiveness like never before. Windows 10 phones can become full-fledged PCs with the help of a dock.
The pieces all fell into place.
Microsoft is moving Windows 10 to a new “Windows as a service” model. Competitors like Samsung Pay, Android Pay and Apple Pay ask users to scan their fingerprint when the device is near an NFC terminal, but Belfiore cited the Windows Hello authentication system as an example of the “kind of technology we’ll build into devices for authentication to make… payments better”.
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Whether Continuum will find takers and give the Windows 10 Mobile platform a push remains to be seen. With a booming ecosytem, a fast adoption rate and interoperability, Windows 10 is the culmination of Microsoft’s vision.
