As the January end-of-support deadline for the aged OS approaches, Microsoft is ramping up efforts to get users to move to Windows 10. Microsoft will soon begin nagging users running Windows 7 Professional to remind them that the operating system is soon to be shelved. “We are now extending the notifications … to Windows 7 … Read more
The newly renamed ‘Windows 10 November 2019 Update’ is nearing release. But given the company’s past naming conventions, it might not show up until November. Microsoft now says the year’s second Windows 10 feature upgrade would be released shortly and has given it the guileless name of “Windows 10 November 2019 Update.” “We believe that … Read more
The company first unveiled the latest version of its desktop OS at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference in June. It arrived for all users on Monday. Apple released 2019’s free upgrade to macOS 10.15, aka “Catalina.” Available from the Mac App Store, where the upgrade was tagged at nearly 5GB or as an even larger … Read more
Windows 10’s share of all PCs rose 1.4 percentage points in September as users continued to shift away from Windows 7 ahead of a January end-of-support deadline. Windows 10 last month continued to shove its ancestor out into traffic so it can steal Windows 7’s share. According to analytics vendor Net Applications, Windows 10’s share … Read more
More than three years after Microsoft’s free upgrade offer officially ended, people are still reporting successful Windows 10 upgrades from older machines. Here’s the latest extremely unofficial report. In January 2017, I wrote a post titled “Here’s how you can still get a free Windows 10 upgrade.” It has become the single most popular post I’ve … Read more
The company’s decision to extend support for the fall editions of Windows 10 Enterprise and Education reflects an upgrade cadence companies have already been following. When Microsoft extended support for Windows 10 Enterprise and Education – making it much easier for organizations to upgrade the OS just once a year – it simply bowed to … Read more
IT admins will be able to use the policies to manage, deploy and update the new browser to their corporate workforce. Microsoft has published the template and documentation that will be required to manage updates of the not-yet-finalized “full-Chromium” Edge browser, making good on a promise of earlier this summer. When Microsoft first pounded the Edge-for-enterprise … Read more
In July’s patches, Win7 basks in telemetry, the Win10 1903 RST upgrade block casts an unintentionally wide net, and we see problems with Visual Studio. Also: yet another fervent call to block the BlueKeep hole. This month, Microsoft Patch Land looks like a stranger Stranger ThingsUpside Down, where Security-only patches carry loads of telemetry, Visual Studio … Read more
The company’s changes to support timelines and its plans for each spring and fall Windows 10 upgrade will affect how often and when companies and consumers update their PCs. Here’s how things could shake out. Microsoft’s latest update upheaval will have long-term impact on Windows 10, affecting enterprise and small business upgrade scheduling and pushing … Read more
Chrome 75 includes patches for 42 security flaws and adds a “Reader Mode” that strips ads and nonessential content from web pages. Google last week refreshed Chrome, upgrading it to version 75 by patching 42 security vulnerabilities and adding a basic “reader” view that rips ads and nonessential non-text content from pages. The company paid … Read more
