Window 10 launch: Five things you MUST do before you upgrade

While the new features are laudable, the big deal is that Microsoft is going back to the future by restoring the Start menu that Windows users had become accustomed to.

Safe to say a lot of these issues can be prevented if you were to surf the web smartly, like not open emails with suspicious attachments, and avoiding websites that requires you to download and install a file without really explaining why. When the upgrade is ready, you will receive a notification.

Ratings and reviews in the Windows 8 and Windows Phone Stores will be visible to Windows 10 users, but those from Windows 10 users will not be visible to customers using an earlier OS.

Windows 7, 8, and 8.1, on the other hand, account for over 77% of the global PC market.

With Microsoft’s latest version of its operating system nearing its launch date, battery concerns have been found within its system.

With just five days to go to the official Windows 10 launch, Microsoft is rolling out updates for Windows 10 build 10240 like insane. Though, consumer fulfillment of those USB upgrades isn’t for a full month after Windows 10 rolls out.

However, if you have an old netbook running Windows 7 Starter, it may struggle to run Windows 10 as smoothly as you’d like. Did you reserve your copy or are you holding out? But this should remind you that with any new hardware or operating system, bugs can do more than cause visual glitches-they can affect the performance of your system.

What started with a simple blue background with a bright blue user interface has probably moved on to a more classic version with Windows 10.

The ability to send chat messages via Skype or your phone by using your Windows 10 PC would be a great new option, significantly simplifying the whole messaging process.

It appears to be very similar to the functionality demonstrated back in January for the Phone, which is not all that surprising considering that Microsoft plans to unify its platforms as much as it can.

The two updates released late Thursday include a security update with the Microsoft Knowledge Base number of KB3074679 and a new driver for Intel HD graphics.

Microsoft has high hopes for Windows 10, which it wants to see installed in a billion devices around the world by 2018. It’s a rough rule, as some new mobile chips run at speeds lower than 2GHz, but can boost to higher speeds when they need to.