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Beard admits that it’s “still technically possible” for users to preserve their previous settings and defaults during the upgrade, including their choice of third-party browser, but argues that ‘the design of the whole upgrade experience and the default settings APIs have been changed to make this less obvious and more hard.
Still, features like Bitlocker remain, Windows Defender now runs in recovery mode, and the new Edge browser offers a number of significant security improvements that might be enough (coupled with improved performance) to convince you and your users to switch to Edge and leave Chrome (or Firefox) behind.
Microsoft will let consumers know when it’s time to upgrade. Most users will simply click “Next” in the Express Setup without diving into the details.
In a blog post, Beard elaborated on Mozilla’s displeasure with Windows 10’s upgrade behavior, and resurrected antitrust actions Microsoft’s faced, perhaps hinting at new complaints to regulators, if not in the U.S., then in the European Union (EU). The Windows 10 rollout is taking place in waves, starting with people who signed up for the company’s Windows Insiders.
In many ways, however, Windows 10 is merely moving closer towards what has become the new normal thanks to mobile operating systems. In the open letter, Beard said that Mozilla had concerns about not giving users the flexibility of choice when it comes to apps and wanted to talk with Microsoft on it. It would be a lot easier and faster if Microsoft provided some kind of tool that converted Windows 7/8 keys to Windows 10. Other issues involved downloading apps from the Windows Store or copying text in the operating system.
As at March 2015, Microsoft’s Windows OS has a combined 78.77% of the market share for computer OS globally.
You can configure your PC to boot from a USB drive from its boot menu; it can be triggered by pressing a button on your keyboard, right after powering it up (or restarting it). There were workarounds, but until a few of the kinks are worked out of the system, the possibility will always exist that you’ll come into the office on any given morning to find all your users gathered around your door with torches and pitchforks in hand. In general, however, she said that best practices for new software should make default choices straightforward. However, Microsoft executive in South Africa Anthony Doherty, Windows and Surface Business Group Lead at Microsoft SA, has given a tip. Instead, Windows 10 will be used across all Microsoft devices, including PCs, tablets and smartphones – as well as the Xbox games console and Microsoft’s holographic headset, HoloLens.
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Windows 10 also possesses the same native antivirus software known as Windows Defender that is present in Windows 8.
