However, Microsoft is now warning users that time is running out to get their free upgrade.
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Redmond first released Windows 10 as a free upgrade for Windows 7 and 8.1 users on July 29 a year ago. She relays that Microsoft has dropped the ability for Windows admins to keep blocking Store access in Windows 10 Pro.
Microsoft has said that it will start charging for Windows 10 upgrade beginning July 29. This means that the Surface phone project is stuck indefinitely until Microsoft finds a new processor which can enable Win32 apps to run on the Surface phone.
Microsoft has set a goal of having the operating system in use in more than a billion devices by 2018, which would put it on par with Apple, which said this year it has one billion active devices running iOS. After that, Windows 10’s home variant will cost $119.
Cortana, the virtual digital assistant that jumped from Windows Phone to Windows 10 on laptops and desktop PCs, has answered more than six billion questions since being made available on the OS, for instance. Over 9 billion hours of games have been played on Windows 10 since launch.
The free upgrade offer to Windows 10 was a first for Microsoft, helping people upgrade faster than ever before.
The company confirms in it that future upgrades like the upcoming Anniversary Update for Windows 10 will be free.
Microsoft last week outlined the timetable it will use to drop browser support for sites that secure traffic with SHA-1 certificates, part of an Internet-wide plan to rid the Internet of the weaker encryption.
Removing the software store, along with other bundled apps, from work machines is normally a good idea to prevent users from installing crap, breaking things and calling the help desk, and generally wasting time at their desks. Using the recovery media that you created is one way to do this, but you can also do it by going to Settings – Update & security – Recovery, as long as you do it within 30 days.
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In the future, most people will probably get Windows 10 the same way they got earlier versions of Windows: by purchasing a new computer.
