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Microsoft’s Windows is still the world’s number one desktop operating system, holding a massive 90.45% of market share across its different versions. The newly launched Windows 10 has been slow on the uptake, but is gradually picking up speed in 2017. “Migration to Windows 10 is expected to be faster than previous operating system (OS) adoption,…
Highly regarded research firm Gartner says that Windows 10 adoption in the enterprise segment will start to grow in at a significant pace. Gartner’s predictions show that Windows 10 usage in the business segment will reach 50% this year (2017) and 100% by 2019. That’s a little hard to digest…until you look at the name of…
In a short period of one year, Microsoft Windows 10 install base on gaming PCs and tablets has gone up from 23% in August 2015 to 71% in August 2016. Where is that kind of Windows 10 adoption coming from? What is the motivation for gamers to move en masse to the new operating system?…
Almost a year after Microsoft claimed to have closed the doors on free Windows 10 upgrades, the company is still offering the option to users of assistive technologies. In fact, you can get the latest Windows 10 Creators Update absolutely free right now, as long as you have an existing licensed version of Windows 7…
Google has announced that, effective tomorrow (February 8, 2017), it will show a support stoppage notification for Gmail users who are on Google Chrome 53 and lower. In a blog post earlier this month, Google said that Gmail support would no longer be available for versions lower than Google Chrome 54. In a notice to…
We’ve been keeping an eye on Microsoft’s free Windows 10 upgrade offer for assistive technology users for a while now, and there’s no sign that the company is going to end the offer any time soon. Though the company has said in the past that they’re keen that users with disabilities continue to have access…
At the bottom of this article are links to sources that will show you how to get a free Windows 10 upgrade from Microsoft even now. Windows 10 seems to have had not too bad a month as usage crept upwards a notch. As of the end of November, Windows 10 covered 23.72% of the PC…
If you’re wondering whether you can still get a free Windows 10 upgrade, you can! We’ve just verified that Microsoft’s Accessibility page on its site still has a valid download link for those with genuine Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 licenses. On July 29, Microsoft had officially closed the doors to the Windows 10 free…
Microsoft has just released the second biggest Windows 10 update of the year, the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update. The free Windows 10 upgrade brings a ton of features to the W10 environment, not the least of which is its Fluent Design philosophy that we saw evidence of in Windows 10 Creators Update earlier this…
After 32 years of being the default bitmap application for Windows, Microsoft Paint (MS Paint) is finally being deprecated in the next major version of Windows: Windows 10 Fall Creators Update. Its successor is Paint 3D, which first featured on earlier versions of Windows 10. With the introduction of Paint 3D and Print 3D, Microsoft…
The Chinese government is paranoid about security. That’s a gross understatement. And that’s even the reason the government banned the use of Windows on government computers back in 2014. But Microsoft has been sidling up to the Chinese government, and has developed a special edition of Windows 10 to put their minds at ease about…
The Windows ecosystem took a major hit over the past ten days because of the WannaCry ransomware worm that affected over 200,000 machines in 150 countries, but it is Windows that will benefit from the widespread attack in the end. One version was hit the most – Windows 7 – while another was not even targeted…
We’ve been talking for some time about how there won’t ever be a device called Surface Phone coming out of Microsoft’s stables, but that the Cellular PC concept was essentially aimed at delivering the same experience that Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has had in mind all along for an “ultimate mobile device.” We’ve also discussed…
At Microsoft Build 2017 today, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella proudly announced that the Windows 10 user base count has now hit 500 million around the world. While that’s encouraging news for the company, which hit 400 million back in July 2017 after they stopped offering Windows 10 upgrades for free, it’s still far, far away…
