Windows 10 Build 14371 for PC released by Microsoft

The trend of the past six months or so shows Windows 10 growing at around two percentage points every month (occasionally more) and Windows 7 dropping by a comparable amount.

And in addition Microsoft added Lumia Icon to the Windows 10 family.

In fact, the company delivered a couple of updates this week, one for the Windows 10 Mobile version, and the other for PCs that delivered a handy tool to fix problems with activating Windows. If you dislike it, remove the upgrade in that time period.

Project Centennial allows developers of classic Win32 programs to easily convert their programs to a packageable app that can be uploaded to the Windows Store; if you’d like to find out more about the bridge, check out our What is Project Centennial? article.

When you have switched back to Windows 7 or 8.1, your next step should be to ensure that Windows 10 does not install itself again automatically.

As you’d expect in Windows 10 universal apps, the new Roku app features Cortana integration for improved search.

Windows 8 users will need to upgrade to Windows 8.1 first and then they will be eligible for Windows 10, and Windows 7 users will be able to upgrade. The update is reported to enable the digital aide to understand natural-language requests of the Windows 10 users.

This build has no new feature but has performance improvements.

While some may still be wary about gaming in Windows 10, Microsoft is on the case offering more benefits for those that choose to take the risk and update. The compatibility mode will trick any incompatible game (or any application in general) into thinking they’re running on an older, compatible version of Windows. Joe also explains that customers who claim their free Windows 10 upgrade before the July 29 end date will receive updates and support “forever”. “Clip the web pages you want to keep”. Should others upgrade to Windows 10?

Windows 10 has the new user interface (formerly called Metro) but shrunk down so that it attaches to the windows start menu we have all come to know and love.

Nvidia’s G-Sync and AMD’s Freesync technology helps to provide gamers with smooth gameplay by synchronising the display refresh rates to the GPU, which should eliminate screen tearing while minimising input lag and display stutter (although the display you use also has an effect on this).