Microsoft begins roll out of Windows 10 free upgrade

Commenting on the launch of Windows 10, Bhaskar Pramanik, Chairman, Microsoft India said, “Windows 10 is the best Windows ever”. Since Windows 10 looks familiar to the previous versions of Windows, you will recognize the desktop and taskbar, but the icons, colors, backgrounds and lock screens appear modern and fresh.

For more info on upgrading, here is the official source.

Since Windows 10 is being said to be rolled out in a staged process, the new OS will be delivered to a batch of devices classified on the basis of hardware they are running. Windows 10 is coming to PCs and tablets first. Even with the changes that were introduced as part of 8.1, adoption has been low. Microsoft and major PC makers are planning a global ad campaign that will extend into the crucial holiday shopping season.

If a user has reserved a copy of Windows 10, Lenovo says the operating system will be downloaded onto their system, and to give users consistent experiences across devices and operating systems, the preloads include a suite of Lenovo-written applications. Truth be told, Microsoft caused enormous pain with the Windows 8/Windows 8.1 experiment, and the company needed a surefire thing to bring excitement back to users.

The new Office Mobile apps are now available for Windows 10 tablets in the form of Word, Excel, OneNote and PowerPoint.

He says the company will sell a minimum of 275 million PCs with Windows 10 installed over the next three years.

These are bold predictions considering Windows 10 just launched today.

One of the main new features of Windows 10, a voice-based assistant named Cortana (of Halo games fame) is now not available in the Middle East.

“I can’t start a review of Windows 10 without heralding the return of the Start menu“, USA Today’s Edward Baig wrote.

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Apple has always been known for their human-friendly advertisements where they focus more on how people use their products and not on its technical specifications.

Jeff Barney, who runs Toshiba’s consumer PC business, said the new software is easier to use than Windows 8 and will complement Toshiba’s newest machines.

Dell and Toshiba seemed to have made the biggest push, both with multiple Windows 10 models available.