How to Prepare Your PC for a Successful Windows 10 Upgrade

It can also re-stabilize your PC if you were the victim of Microsoft’s week-long “it was a mistake” campaign to surreptitiously check the “Upgrade to Windows 10” optional Windows Update patch.

Microsoft is really pushing to have at least one billion installs of Windows 10 within the next three years.

Dynamic Live Tiles for the Windows 10 apps can now be designed using Windows App Studio. In August – the first full month Windows 10 was available – its share was 13.95 per cent, and in October, it fell slightly to 13.22 per cent. While this figure is never likely to rise, Windows 8.1 has around 10.68% of market share.

Net Applications’ numbers could also be used to render the slight slowdown in a different way: During October, an average of 706,000 devices were added to Windows 10’s rolls daily. The number is higher than the Windows 10 raw user share number because only 90.4 percent – not 100 percent – of all systems tallied by Net Applications during the month were powered by Windows 10 OS.

By demanding that users switch from, say, IE 8 to IE11, Microsoft opened the door to alternatives. It’s the default search choice in Edge and Cortana, and you can even use its image of the day as the wallpaper for your lock screen via the Windows Spotlight feature. The OS’ global share gained 5% in first month of its launch, but in the subsequent months, it managed to grow by just around 1% over the previous period.

Chrome also seems to have impacted the user share of Apple’s Safari, a browser that in the personal computer arena runs nearly exlusively on OS X-powered Macs.

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Microsoft has updated its App Studio to let you develop Window 10 apps without using any code. Once listed as a recommended update, the upgrade process will begin automatically for any users who have the automatic upgrade option activated. Windows for years has included built-in utilities that can fix most of these common problems. With Windows 8 failing to make a difference, everyone expected Microsoft’s platform to go down, as more people were interested in alternatives such as Linux and OS X.