Windows 10 debuts on Wednesday, but no one's expected to line up overnight for the new Microsoft operating systems the way people did 20 years ago for Windows 95.Microsoft said Windows 10 will seem ...

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Windows 10 will be available as a free upgrade to users of Windows 8.1 and Windows 7. If you have recently downloaded and installed all the latest Windows Updates and restarted your Windows computer, ...

Right now Windows 10 is gearing up to break Internet traffic records. Later today download speeds are expected to top 40 terabytes per second (that’s 40M megabytes per second) as millions of users ...

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For users with computers running on Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 who procrastinated on downloading and installing the free upgrade to Windows 10, the sad news is that the offer has been ended by Microsoft ...

For more than seven years, it's been one of the worst-kept secrets in personal computing. Officially, Microsoft's free upgrade offer ended in 2016, but no one in Redmond bothered to reset the ...

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Do you know what’s the single biggest driver in Windows 10 adoption? That it is Free. Truly, completely, 100% free as long as you own a genuine copy of Windows 7 or Windows 8 Home or Professional. Do ...