If a Windows update bricks your PC you should sue Microsoft, for a lot! I guess that was the mindset of an Albuquerque man who is suing the company because of a failed forced Windows 10 upgrade. In return the man is seeking 600 million in damages, yes SIX HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS!
In a recent blog post Microsoft detailed some new features that have become available for Microsoft's Inside Program fast ring users. The one that catches most attention is "Ultimate Performance Mode". This is a performance plan integrated into Windows, which more or less throws all of the power saving features out of the window to make sure your system is running at peak performance.
We told you about the new Windows customer SKUs yesterday that Microsoft intends to implement later this year, but it seems the changes keep on coming. Microsoft has just officially announced that Office 2019 will only work on machines with Windows 10 and the next LTSC release of Windows Server. This is of course to another effort to force Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 users to upgrade to 10.
Microsoft will soon be launching Windows 10 Redstone 4 and with it will come changes to how the company is positioning the software as well as pricing for its partners. From the information it looks like we will have 5 new SKUs for partners to use with their products. These SKUs are labeled as Entry ($25), Value ($45), Core ($65.45), Core+ ($86.66), and Advanced ($101).
This is a little odd, but Microsoft will soon be distributing Linux. Popular distributions like Ubuntu, Fedora, and SuSE, will soon be available through the Windows Store.
A wording change in the latest build of the upcoming Creators Update for Windows 10 might have some users on metered connections worried.
At its annual Surface Event, Microsoft's corporate vice president for Surface Computing Panos Panay announced a new addition to the company's Surface lineup: a 28-inch All-in-One which they are calling the Surface Studio. It is a 3:2 aspect ratio monitor Microsoft calls a "Pixel Sense Display", featuring a 4500x3000 resolution (with around 62% more pixels than 4K resolution, combining to provide about 192 pixels per inch), as well as 10-point touch and Microsoft Pen support.
Microsoft has just announced that Windows 10 in now installed on over 400 million devices. It only took Microsoft 14 months to hit this milestone! When Windows 10 was released it was installed on over 75 million PCs in its first four weeks. That number reached 200 million in under six months, 300 million after nine months, and now we have 400 million users in 14 months!
Microsoft's year-long free upgrade to Windows 10 from Windows 7 or 8.1 officially ended at Midnight on Friday (July 29th). This means that you would have to pay $119.99 for a copy of the operating system. Well a new found loophole will allow you to still have access to the free upgrade.
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