Microsoft Windows 10 Will Be Available In 190 Countries And 111 Languages By This Summer

Forbes ^ | 03/19/2015 | Amit Chowdry

[SeekAndFind]

At the Windows Hardware Engineering Community (WinHEC) event in Shenzhen, China, Microsoft announced that Windows 10 will be available this summer in 190 countries and 111 languages. Windows is currently used by over 1.5 billion users around the world. Windows 10 will be offered as a free upgrade to customers who have Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1 for the first year after it is released. Microsoft Windows head Terry Myerson told Reuters that the free upgrade to Windows 10 is available for all qualified PCs, genuine and non-genuine.

Microsoft has partnered with Lenovo , Tencent and Qihu 360 to “spur adoption of Windows 10 worldwide.” Lenovo will be offering Windows 10 upgrade services at 2,500 service centers and retail stores in China along with selling Windows phones through China Mobile .

Tencent will launch its QQ app and many of its popular PC games like “League of Legends,” “Cross Fire” and “Dungeon & Fighter” for Windows 10. Internet security company Qihu 360 will offer Windows 10 for free to their customers in China. And Xiaomi will be setting up a group of Mi 4 smartphone “power users” with a program to help test Windows 10.

Microsoft’s deal with Xiaomi — which is known as the Windows Insider Program — is interesting because Xiaomi’s flagship products are Android-based smartphones. How will Xiaomi Mi4 users be able to replace the Android-based operating system with Windows? Apparently Microsoft created a custom-based ROM to overwrite the Android operating system in the Mi4 with Windows. This is similar to the way that CyanogenMod offers a customized version of Android that replaces the default Android operating system that ships with a device.

[a fool in paradise]

Will Austrian be one of them? < /Obama >

[the_individual2014]

Well I better get to crackin on looking at the new OS, maybe taking another MS Certification on top the the MCP cert I have and maybe seeing if I can put in Virtual Box or MS Hyper V to play around with it, my main question are they going to use or allow an windows 7 type GUI on there or not.

[SeekAndFind]

my main question are they going to use or allow an windows 7 type GUI on there or not.

SEE HERE:

Windows 10: Return of the traditional desktop experience could finally redeem Microsoft

[Resettozero]

Stick with 7 or even 8.1 as long as possible, even if 10 is offered for free.

My two-cents worth.

[tacticalogic]

windows 7 type GUI

Real geeks load server core :).

[molson209]

Will you get a Product Key with the free Upgrade ?

[American in Israel]

Err, what happened to windows 9?

[SeekAndFind]

This article might explain it:

Why is it called Windows 10 not Windows 9?

[OneWingedShark]

Given that it's not a formally proven OS [much less Type-safe OS] and Win 7 is adequate for my needs, why should I upgrade?

[the_individual2014]

Agreed I will still have 7 for a while longer, windows 7 professional 64-bit works wonders for me and I have a gaming PC so I do not see a need to change it for the next couple of years maybe and I do not see win 10 hitting a very large scale enterprise environment that I work in for at least a around half a decade to a decade, and that’s a huge maybe, I will still play with it though.

[mykroar]

That alot of blue screens.

[NorthMountain]

I have been running “Windows 10” along with Windows 7 (different machines) since November 2014.

I don’t agree with your advice.

Folks who want to try “Windows 10” can download it, right now, from Microsoft. It’s officially “Beta” software, but I haven’t run into any serious glitches since January. Microsoft pushes updates regularly.

[RayChuang88]

The most important thing about Windows 10 is that on desktop and "conventional" laptop machines, it goes back to the Desktop user interface by default, not that weird Modern tiled interface that drove users crazy. So far, the response by end users using the public test versions have been pretty positive; I think unlike the unloved Windows 8 (but to a lesser extent Windows 8.1), Windows 10 will be a surprisingly large success for Microsoft and we could see many government and corporate end users upgrade to it (or buy new computers with Windows 10 preinstalled).

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Given that it’s not a formally proven OS [much less Type-safe OS] and Win 7 is adequate for my needs, why should I upgrade?

My advise, DON’T. After it is released, wait at least another 9 months and see...

[Resettozero]

Yes, I ran the Technical Evaluation incomplete version of 10 for months until the end of February this year then removed it from my test machine.

As I posted previously on FR, Microsoft seems intent on copying Apple in everything and every way and I am not pleased with the places either one of the corporate giants is planning to take individual users such as I.

[NorthMountain]

This time last year, I ran one operating system: Windows 7.

Now I run three: Win7, “Win10”, and Ubuntu.

Something for Microshaft to think about.

[Resettozero]

Instead of Ubuntu, or in addition to it, I suggest Linux Mint 17.

[tacticalogic]

Something for Microshaft to think about.

I think they've already started.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2014/05/19/announcing-windows-powershell-desired-state-configuration-for-linux.aspx

[Scrambler Bob]

windows 9?

Number nine ... number nine ... number nine ...

Beatles?