Your PC Is About To Automatically Download And Install Windows 10

And while Windows 10 has been out since last summer, devices running some version of Windows 8 still account for the majority of Windows Store downloads.

Businesses also appear to be more eager to upgrade to Windows 10 than they were to Windows 8 when the latter was released. Most of the initial activity was at a consumer level and the impact on the commercial world was fairly limited.

Microsoft keeps a backup of your system for a month.

The front-facing camera is unusable on PCs with Intel RealSense resulting in being unable to use Windows Hello or any other apps that utilize the front-facing camera.

For the channel the opportunity around Windows 10 is the questions they can help answer that are thrown up by a migration to a new OS. Do you think this means I will receive updates until that date? Just turn off the automatic updates in the settings under Windows Update.

Again, if you’re a game developer, it’s worth looking at the above chart in conjunction with which game subcategories get the most downloads. A survey previous year by Gartner Inc. found that BYOD policies will be implemented by 38 percent of businesses in 2016 and at least 50 percent by 2017, suggesting an extremely quick adoption of Windows 10 by most enterprise-level organizations. The US is leading the way with slightly higher levels of usage but Emea is not far behind. But the process won’t be quick, as the cloud-based directory and identity service doesn’t blend well with legacy and near-legacy editions of Windows, like Windows 7, and the user profiles that power settings-and-more synchronization there. The monkey is in honor of Chinese New Year, which arrives on February 8… unless you’re trapped in a Guangzhou train station with 100,000 other revelers.

Windows 10 is now on over 200 million machines, according to Microsoft, and its market share has hit double figures for the first time to jump over Windows XP which has remained stubbornly static at just over 10 percent.

IT pros can set up the Enterprise State Roaming service for Windows 10 clients using the Azure Admin Portal.

Bassam Khan, vice president of product marketing at AppSense, said that the attraction for users was the removal of risk from a migration.

If you work for a large company, your system administrators are likely monitoring these updates, so Windows 10 won’t automatically download without their OK. You have to change the Update settings if you don’t wish to host Microsoft’s update files for strangers. Few use the iPhone 5 now, nearly none still with the 4.

A report says that the Lumia 650 will be the last Lumia to see the light of day, and it led to people speculating about the arrival of a new line of Microsoft smartphones called the Surface Phone. Get over it and upgrade already. I can go on and on.