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Microsoft Takes Another Look At Mobile Payments

Microsoft has rolled out a new Windows 10 Mobile Insider Preview build today to those in the Fast Ring, bringing with it a ton of new features alongside significant performance and battery life improvements. Microsoft says that it’s fixed the issue in its internal builds, and that builds higher than 10575 should be able to update to the next build without the need for the user to revert back to Windows Phone 8.1 first. Here are five definitive pieces of evidence that Windows 10 is Microsoft’s endgame.

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Once the list of updates is showing, scroll down to the Microsoft Windows section.

It’s possible the “begging feature” will never appear in an official Windows 10 release.

Windows 8 was never meant to shake up the market.

There’s a lot of confusion and misinformation about what happens to your existing copy of Windows when you take advantage of the free upgrade to Windows 10.

Usually when a politician or executive leaves to spend more time with his or her family, it’s a code phrase for “I’ve been sacked”. Cash back promos help OEMs sell more of their latest Windows 10 notebooks and 2-in-1 products.

Devices that have updated from Windows Phone 8 to Windows Phone 8.1 may lose the ability to connect to Wi-Fi on Windows 10 Mobile Insider Preview builds or may fail to update to Windows 10 Mobile Insider Preview builds all together. You can then speak your message and have it sent to that person from your phone, without ever actually touching your phone. His comments suggest the company is exploring how best to use similar technologies to the ones on display in Windows Hello to make its payment system work smoothly.

Microsoft states Windows DVD Player will only be “free for a limited time”, but does not clarify when users can expect to shell out for the app.

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“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. Vaio’s Windows 10 offering is also expected to arrive in 2016.

Windows Phone has a new app problem