On 29 July, a free upgrade offer for Windows users with earlier versions of the operating system will come to an end.
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Last week Microsoft unveiled their latest momentum numbers for Windows 10 and announced that the almost 10-month old operating system is now running on 300 million active devices.
The most eagerly awaited extension of all for Microsoft’s Edge browser has finally arrived for preview releases of Windows 10. “Core to delivering our more personal computing vision, Windows 10 offers experiences that are familiar, safer and more secure, and more personal and productive – enabling innovative new experiences”. “The free upgrade promotion is now slated to end on July 29 and we encourage all of our customers to take advantage of it while it is still active”.
Starting out with Translator and Reddit Extensions, Microsoft extended the support to Pinterest and OneNote in the following update.
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For most of the Steve Ballmer era at Microsoft, Microsoft’s revenue growth was sporadic – there would be big jumps whenever the company had new versions of Windows and Office, followed by lulls.
Windows 10 is created to provide a familiar experience to users with the menu, taskbar and desktop similar to previous versions.
At the point when Microsoft propelled Windows 10 the previous summer, it made an offer that a huge number of Windows users couldn’t miss upgrading from Windows 7 or Windows 8/8.1 inside the principal year and it will be free.
That’s right, the plain old vanilla professional version of the operating system no longer allows Windows Store blockage. However, he added that users can continue to “use your search engine and browser of choice on Windows 10”. One of the most-requested features and browser plugins, AdBlock and AdBlock Plus are now available for Microsoft Edge users.
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The app that somehow still ended up in the Windows Store is called Torrenty and can be used to download torrents. Once users have downloaded and installed AdBlock or AdBlock Plus, they just need to restart Edge and adjust any settings in the browser’s extensions section. Recently the app alerted users that an update was available.
