Are you and your technology ready for Back-to-School?
Check out everything you need to know about the Windows 10 upgrade!
- July 29th marked the start of global availability for Windows 10, available as a FREE upgrade for the very first time! Windows 10 represents an entirely new Windows and is the first step to an era of more personal computing, built by our customers, for our customers.
- As a Windows 8.1 user, you’ll love the familiar, fun, and productive Windows 10 features, including:
- The personal digital assistant goes beyond your phone: Cortana, the world’s most personal digital assistant is now available on the PC (and all of your Windows devices). Now on the PC, you can ask her to find files for you, send an email on your behalf, turn on your music, pull up photos, find apps and more.
- Make the web your personal sketchbook:The new browser for Windows 10, Microsoft Edge, lets you write on the web with built-in note taking, sharing and integration with Cortana. Plus there’s a reading pane for no distractions.
- Play more: Your games, friends, achievements and more will follow you across Xbox One and Windows 10 devices. Xbox Live is built into Windows 10 giving you access to the greatest gaming community in the world no matter where you are. Windows 10 extends the Xbox experience with game streaming. Play your Xbox One games on a desktop, laptop, or tablet in your home on your local Wi-Fi.
- The start menu is back! Everything you came to know and love about the start menu is back and integrated with the live tile touch experience.
Are you ready to update your devices to Windows 10?
- We seek to inspire and empower people around the world – to not just upgrade Windows, but also to upgrade the world. This year, we strive to make the most important upgrades. We’d love for you to join us by celebrating people and organizations who upgrade the world every day. In line with the Windows 10 launch, we launched a year-long initiative, called Upgrade Your World, to celebrate those who inspire and empower others. Led by our vision to help people achieve more through technology and in celebration of the Windows 10 launch, Microsoft is donating $10 million to more than 100 nonprofits worldwide.
- As a part of this initiative, Microsoft is partnering with 10 global and 100 national nonprofits, including CARE, Code.org, Keep a Child Alive, Malala Fund, Pencils of Promise, Save the Children, Special Olympics, The Global Poverty Project, and The Nature Conversancy.
- And, now YOU have a chance to help your favorite nonprofit get a donation from Microsoft by voting for our 10th global partner!
- Simply share the nonprofit that you’d like to nominate on Twitter or Instagram and tag with #upgradeyourworld #vote @[insert charity].
- Please join us! Whether it’s something big or small, we invite you to upgrade someone’s day or make an impact in your community and tweet it using #UpgradeYourWorld.
