With a month to go, Microsoft issues new Windows 10 build with Edge browser brand
Microsoft on Monday released another build of Windows 10, the first with the Edge browser branding.
Microsoft on Monday released another build of Windows 10, the first with the Edge browser branding.
Microsoft has changed its "Get Windows 10" advertisement displayed on Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 devices to tout the value of the free upgrade in dollars and cents.
Samsung yesterday denied it had blocked a Windows update on its hardware but acknowledged that it was manipulating Microsoft's Windows Update, a charge leveled Tuesday by a researcher.
Microsoft on Friday said Windows 10 beta testers will receive a free copy of the operating system's stable build next month then almost immediately tweaked its statement, again muddying the waters.
Microsoft on Friday said it would soon tweak the Windows 10 preview program as its engineers push toward the July 29 launch of the final code to customers.
Windows 8 users have a little less than seven months to move to Windows 8.1 or be severed from Microsoft's security update stream.
Windows 10's launch is less than six weeks away, but questions -- lots of questions -- still remain about the new operating system, from when it will be taken to the bosom of enterprise to whether some of Microsoft's moves leading up to it were premeditated.
With Windows 10 about to ship and Windows 8 largely panned, it's not a surprise that Gartner has recommended that enterprises skip the latter and migrate directly to the former from Windows 7.
Microsoft today shuffled its executive ranks, giving Windows chief Terry Myerson more responsibilities and casting out former Nokia CEO Stephen Elop.
Microsoft has confirmed that it will use security updates - or more accurately, the refusal to serve them to customers - as the stick to keep businesses in line with Windows 10's accelerated tempo of feature and functionality upgrades.
The ACT government's 2015-16 budget sets aside $8.46 million over four years to carry out a whole-of-government software upgrade program.
Microsoft's Windows 10 upgrade "nag" campaign -- an effort to convince customers running Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 to upgrade to the new OS -- began today, with users reporting that they'd seen the ad-like screens.
Microsoft today set July 29 as the launch date for Windows 10, saying that customers could begin installing the free upgrade on existing PCs, 2-in-1s and large tablets that Wednesday.
Online retailer <em>Newegg.com</em> this weekend revealed some Windows 10 pricing information, and began taking pre-orders for the operating system, even though Microsoft hasn't disclosed a release date.
A long-time leaker of Microsoft secrets today said that the company would declare Windows 10 finished in July, and ship the new OS to device makers that same month.