Windows 10 Free For Users Of Windows 7 And 8.1

Windows 10, Microsoft will make available free of charge for users of Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1, so the software giant has tonight during a special event let you know. The upgrade to the operating system a year after launch free download. According to Microsoft, this involves more than a "one-time upgrade." Once a machine has been upgraded to Windows 10, Microsoft will continue to support operating system on the machine free of charge for the lifetime of the device.

Windows 10 will release the software giant new features sooner rather that it will wait for a new version of Windows. "We consider it as a Windows Service," said Microsoft's Terry Myerson. Therefore it would soon no longer make use of the device Windows, which would be good news for developers. Companies and business users, however, will have a choice whether they want to receive these consumer-oriented updates or important business rather shielding systems so that only receive critical patches and security updates.

One of the new additions to Windows 10 is an entirely new browser called "Project Spartan". The browser is specially designed for Windows 10 and should provide better interoperability, reliability and traceability. This would include reading articles should be improved and the voice assistant Cortana will be integrated into the browser, so users can find and do things faster. According to Microsoft's Jim alkove Spartan will be safer than ever.

Microsoft also showed tonight that already 1.7 million people in the pilot program of Windows 10 to participate and the software giant has already received 800,000 comments on the operating system. In addition, Windows 7 users were advised to install Internet Explorer 11 already, so they simply can upgrade to Windows 10 as the operating system is available.