The next major update to Windows 10 will be known as Redstone, and so effectively will be more like Windows 10.1. Most of the initial activity was at a consumer level and the impact on the commercial world was fairly limited.
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Something about Windows 95, one of the most popular operating systems ever, continues to excite people to go back to it. A few months ago, we saw someone run the operating system on the Samsung Gear smartwatch.
That encompasses all the PCs, tablets and other mobile devices in the worldwide Windows ecosystem, and while it evinces an ongoing trend – games have long dominated the download and revenue charts on Android and iOS as well – it’s a fun fact for developers who put in the effort to port their games to the Windows Store.
For Windows 8 users, move your cursor to the right edge of the screen if you’ve got a mouse or swipe right if you’ve got a touchscreen device. You should pay for Windows when it’s new.
If you want to avoid Windows 10, you will have to turn off automatic updates.
The firm had already predicted that 40% of businesses would adopt Win 10 by this summer and when it checked last October 11% had already done so. But as the older OSes age out and Windows 10 becomes dominant, Miller expects Azure AD – and its feature set – to become more attractive to enterprises. The US is leading the way with slightly higher levels of usage but Emea is not far behind. Google is abandoning support for the Chrome browser on Windows XP and Vista in April 2016 – at which time it’s also scrapping updates for Chrome on Mac OS X 10.8 “Mountain Lion”.
Similar to the cat, the monkey is here to celebrate the Windows Insider program, but it’s also born on a special occasion: it comes just in time for the Chinese New Year, so it celebrates the Year of the Monkey. The software giant also promised to be more strict on which apps would pass its quality checks, but it appears Microsoft isn’t really keeping its promise. The OS may belong to Microsoft.
Given this, it doesn’t make sense to return the Windows 10 upgrade to the paid model from the past.
Bassam Khan, vice president of product marketing at AppSense, said that the attraction for users was the removal of risk from a migration.
Either way, it will be interesting to watch Windows 10’s market share numbers over the next six months, now that Microsoft has made it a recommended installation in Windows Update. But the machines belong to ME!
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Spiceworks reports that North America leads the corporate adoption rate at 19.3% – APAC lags with 14.4%. The line in the sand for nearly all hardware compatibility is now anything built post 2005 but the question is should you still be using a 10-year-old device? Yet people don’t want the newest pc with better capabilities?
