Microsoft ; announced that it will soon offer the free upgrade to of Windows 10 to each & every, i.e both honest customers as well as pirates, The operating system is to be released this summer.
"If you are using Windows 7 or 8 already, you will get its free upgrade, what so ever if you have paid for it or not," a Stuff.co.nz report quotes a company spokesman as saying.
"Anyone with the well qualified device can easily upgrade the Windows 10, as including those with pirated copies of Windows previous versions," the spokesperson said.
Microsoft will launch the new OS this mid summer in all 190 countries and with 111 languages. The actual date for its launch has not been shared with people yet.
The Microsoft has decided not to block pirates from receiving there upgrade as part of move aimed at turning them into honest customers and educating users on the benefits that come with legitimate software, like easy updates and access to all popular software suites like Office and many more.
The recent studies had also shown that the all three quarters of all PC software in China was unlicensed.
Apart from bringing back the "Start" menu and introducing friendlier desktop options, Windows 10 will also offer more storage space. Microsoft in a recent blog post described Windows 10's storage requireme
nts to have some "impressive" space-saving techniques.
Using file compression, the tech company has managed to squeeze around 1.5GB of storage for 32-bit systems and 2.6GB on 64-bit machines. The same savings and compression will also apply to phones running Windows 10 in future.
Also, Windows 10's refresh and reset options will not use a separate recovery image that's usually preinstalled by PC makers, saving about 4GB to 12 GB of storage space depending on the particular PC make and model, so a total of nearly 15GB of storage space will be freed on some machines.
LOGIN USING FACE RECOGNITION
Microsoft will do away with PIN or password requirement to unlock Windows 10 devices. Instead, Windows Hello will scan your face, iris, or fingerprint to allow you access to your own machine.
While most current machines won't be able to use Windows Hello face recognition, Microsoft will support existing fingerprint readers.
According to a report by The Verge, the new Windows 10 PCs that support the face recognition feature will ship with Intel's RealSense infrared 3D camera that will scan your face.
Microsoft says the privacy and security around the new Windows Hello feature are "enterprise-grade" and will meet requirements of organizations that adhere to strict regulations.
"If you are using Windows 7 or 8 already, you will get its free upgrade, what so ever if you have paid for it or not," a Stuff.co.nz report quotes a company spokesman as saying.
Microsoft will launch the new OS this mid summer in all 190 countries and with 111 languages. The actual date for its launch has not been shared with people yet.
The Microsoft has decided not to block pirates from receiving there upgrade as part of move aimed at turning them into honest customers and educating users on the benefits that come with legitimate software, like easy updates and access to all popular software suites like Office and many more.
The recent studies had also shown that the all three quarters of all PC software in China was unlicensed.
Apart from bringing back the "Start" menu and introducing friendlier desktop options, Windows 10 will also offer more storage space. Microsoft in a recent blog post described Windows 10's storage requireme
nts to have some "impressive" space-saving techniques.
Using file compression, the tech company has managed to squeeze around 1.5GB of storage for 32-bit systems and 2.6GB on 64-bit machines. The same savings and compression will also apply to phones running Windows 10 in future.
Also, Windows 10's refresh and reset options will not use a separate recovery image that's usually preinstalled by PC makers, saving about 4GB to 12 GB of storage space depending on the particular PC make and model, so a total of nearly 15GB of storage space will be freed on some machines.
LOGIN USING FACE RECOGNITION
Microsoft will do away with PIN or password requirement to unlock Windows 10 devices. Instead, Windows Hello will scan your face, iris, or fingerprint to allow you access to your own machine.While most current machines won't be able to use Windows Hello face recognition, Microsoft will support existing fingerprint readers.
According to a report by The Verge, the new Windows 10 PCs that support the face recognition feature will ship with Intel's RealSense infrared 3D camera that will scan your face.
Microsoft says the privacy and security around the new Windows Hello feature are "enterprise-grade" and will meet requirements of organizations that adhere to strict regulations.
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