Tag: Windows 10

October 9, 2019

Windows 10 represents a major upgrade from Windows 7. For enterprises, it provides a substantial improvement in the ability to manage Windows devices. However, comprehensive endpoint management requires additional capabilities beyond what Windows 10 alone can provide. In particular, new […]

February 22, 2017

Microsoft this month reaffirmed that it will issue two Windows 10 upgrades this year, twice the number of 2016 but still shy of the firm’s original target. In a presentation 11 days ago at a Microsoft technical conference held in […]

February 10, 2017

Microsoft has been stuck on the 400 million mark for Windows 10 for more than four months, as the head of the company’s operating systems group yesterday repeated the milestone when he spoke to developers. “We now have over 400 […]

January 30, 2017

The next major upgrade for Windows 10, dubbed the Creators Update, will be released in April. It will add new programs for creating content (like new music composing and painting apps), but there will be many additions addressing the ways […]

January 6, 2017

We heard last November that Microsoft was working to overhaul its design language for Windows 10’s interface as well as for first- and third-party apps on the platform. Now, MSPoweruser has obtained leaked images of that program, dubbed Project NEON. […]

October 11, 2016

One of Windows 10’s biggest internal changes is support for management and security APIs à la enterprise mobile management (EMM). It uses APIs similar to those in iOS, Android, and MacOS. But Windows 10’s EMM policies are limited compared to […]

September 29, 2016

IT administrators trying to figure out how to move their organizations to Windows 10 have a new tool that might change the game. This week, Microsoft released the Windows Upgrade Analytics Service, designed to make it easier to decide whether […]

September 27, 2016

Microsoft today acknowledged that the Windows 10 adoption pace had slowed when it claimed the new operating system was running on approximately 400 million devices. The company reset the Windows 10 uptake status on the same day it kicked off […]

August 9, 2016

There are widespread reports of significant bugs in the update, and they’re causing systems to freeze, browsers to misbehave, and peripherals — including Xbox One controllers — to malfunction. Two major antivirus companies also warn that incompatibilities with Windows 10 […]

August 1, 2016

For a year after its launch, Microsoft allowed users of previous versions of its desktop OS to upgrade to Windows 10 for free. That offer ended last week on July 29. If you’ve missed the boat, you’ll be interested to […]