Microsoft has revealed that Windows 10 will bring its voice-controlled assistant Cortana to PCs. It also unveiled a headset that it said would one day project the operating system over views of the real world. In addition, the firm announced that the OS upgrade would be offered free of charge for devices running Windows 8, Windows 7 and Windows Phone. The offer, which is limited to the Windows 10's first year of release, may aid its adoption. It marks a change in strategy from Microsoft

The Windows team shared more Windows 10 experiences and how Windows 10 will inspire new scenarios across the broadest range of devices, from big screens to small screens to no screens at all. You can catch the video on-demand presentation here.   Windows 10 is the first step to an era of more personal computing. This vision framed our work on Windows 10, where we are moving Windows from its heritage of enabling a single device – the PC – to a world that is more mobile, natural and grounded in

The next chapter of Windows 10 will be streamed live on January 21st and I'm sure we are all looking forward to seeing what is coming next and what has changed.     Microsoft has already tweeted this screenshot to get us alerted to how you can separate work and play with Windows 10     and this one to show how you can keep tabs on your apps     don't forget the date, January 21st.   Be there, or be square !   http://news.microsoft.com/windows10story/

Microsoft's head of Windows Insider program, Gabriel Aul, has confirmed that Windows 10 will require a fresh install on Windows devices older than Windows 7.   Revealed in a reply from his Twitter account, Aul wrote that there won't be any full upgrade paths as these will be solely available for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 users.     It makes sense given that some of them might be on older filesystems (e.g. FAT32). That's also assuming that Windows 10 will run on these systems, which althou

We want you as an Insider to be among the first to hear today's announcement about our January 21 event. We'll share more about the Windows vision and the great features and benefits of Windows 10. We'll be livestreaming portions of the event, and Blogging Windows will be carrying blog posts that you'll want to see. Use the Insider Hub app (more on that below) and keep reading these emails to stay current – and mark your calendar! The Insider Hub app Included in the latest build (9879) is

If you’re running Windows 10 Technical Preview on your computer, there’s no need to worry that you might lose all your files when the stable build of the OS comes out as Microsoft is working to make it possible to upgrade to RTM when it becomes available. Gabriel Aul, the Microsoftie who always keeps us up to date with everything related to Windows 10, revealed in a short tweet a couple of hours ago that upgrades to RTM from the Technical Preview branch were very likely to be possible n

Microsoft has released an out of band Critical Security Update for most versions of Windows which could allow an attacker to take control, of everything.     and I quote...   What might an attacker use the vulnerability to do? An attacker could use this vulnerability to elevate an unprivileged domain user account to a domain administrator account. An attacker that successfully exploited this vulnerability could impersonate any user on the domain, including domain administrators, and join

Microsoft has released a new build of Windows 10 to the insiders, you can get it by updating Windows 10 by clicking on the Start menu and type Windows Update Settings which will bring up the below     when Windows Update Settings opens up, click the Windows Update back arrow as shown above,   then select Preview Builds     change from Slow to Fast to get builds quicker than normal if you don't mind more bugs     then click on Check Now followed by Download Now     and off i