Windows 10 is an operating system with several SKUs, but that’s not enough for Microsoft because the company wants to introduce another SKU. First, the operating system was released as a free upgrade for many users of Windows 7 and Windows 8. As the company had promised past year, Windows 10 free upgrade offer will end on July 29.
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Microsoft did not reveal the upgrade price after July 29, 2016 but the price is usually cheaper than the retail price.
The new Windows 10 mobile devices were expected to bail out Microsoft’s phone business after the software giant had written off billions of dollars on the Lumia business. This summer, with the planned release of the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, users should see signs that the weak cryptographic hash function is being phased out. It works on Windows 7, Windows 8/8.1 and Windows 10.
“I think Microsoft is proving to everybody that Windows 10 is a third viable platform”, said Moorhead.
The 300 million represents new computers and devices with Windows 10 installed, as well as upgrades of existing gadgets. Now that you have a Windows 10 license tied to your PC, you can go ahead and reinstall the version that came with your PC. This would equate 1% with roughly 20 million devices.
My translation: to maintain complete control over your Windows deployments, don’t buy the retail-oriented Windows 10 Pro. Edge saw more than 63 billion minutes use in March, which is apparently a 50-percent increase in time over the previous quarter. Since launch, Cortana, Microsoft’s digital assistant, has answered six billion questions.
Microsoft’s Continuum feature on Windows Mobile phones is a great idea that coud be even better if Microsoft phones ran full Windows PC apps, but Intel’s decision not to launch a next-generation Atom chip for mobile devices means that might not happen.
It’s also the fastest way to get an update, as Microsoft tends to wait a bit before releasing the ISO installation package, which allows users to install the update manually.
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Before today’s announcement, many had assumed that Microsoft would keep the free upgrade for at least this year, pushing the growth rate further.
