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Online Maik

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Replacement Windows
« on: Wednesday, 18 March, 2015 @ 15:57:48 »
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Microsoft has announced that Windows 10, the latest version of the operating system which has a claimed 1.5 billion users around the world, will launch this summer.

The news came from... China on Wednesday morning. The company has not responded to requests from the Telegraph for a more specific date.

In China, summer starts around May 5, meaning that a launch could come within weeks.

Windows 10 will be made available simultaneously in 190 countries and 111 languages.

As announced by the company in January, it will be offered as a free upgrade for a period of one year for the hundreds of millions of customers running Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/microsoft/11479567/Microsoft-will-launch-Windows-10-in-summer.html


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It is theoretically possible that Microsoft will launch Windows 10 as early as June 2015. Considering that this is just three months away from now, it is unlikely since the operating system has not hit release candidate status yet.
http://www.ghacks.net/2015/03/18/windows-10-to-ship-this-summer/


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Microsoft's Windows Hello will make your face, finger or iris the new sign-in

With Windows Hello, announced Tuesday, users of the upcoming Windows 10 operating system will be able to sign in to their devices using their fingerprint, their face or even the iris of their eye.
http://www.cnet.com/news/microsoft-introduces-windows-hello-for-signing-in-with-your-face-finger-or-iris/


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New Internet Explorer? IE's Spartan future
A new web browser called Spartan is to replace Internet Explorer. Matt Warman explains why
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/microsoft/11359191/New-Internet-Explorer-IEs-Spartan-future.html


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Re: Replacement Windows
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday, 18 March, 2015 @ 20:26:07 »
Bit confusing. MS TechNet advises Spartan will be available alongside IE, not instead of. Time (and the WinX release) will reveal the actuality.

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Re: Replacement Windows
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday, 18 March, 2015 @ 21:33:11 »
Yes, bit difficult at times to get the full facts from MS statements. This is a from a report dated yesterday:

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Speaking at Microsoft Convergence yesterday, Microsoft's marketing chief Chris Capossela [said]... "We’ll continue to have Internet Explorer, but we’ll also have a new browser called Project Spartan."

Internet Explorer will still exist in some versions of Windows 10 mainly for enterprise compatibility.
http://www.theverge.com/2015/3/17/8230631/microsoft-is-killing-off-the-internet-explorer-brand

From an older report on theverge:

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Microsoft confirms that Windows 10 will ship with two browsers... but it’s possible Microsoft may choose to only ship Internet Explorer with enterprise copies of the operating system.
http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/22/7872509/microsoft-windows-10-internet-explorer-spartan-browsers

Given that quite a lot of Windows users have stuck with IE despite Google Chrome and Firefox, etc, etc. being freely available, maybe not all users will like Spartan (or whatever it gets called) and will want to stick with IE, or will abandon Spartan for Chrome/Firefox if they can't still use IE.

From what I can see, Spartan won't (as things stand) run on Windows 7 (or 8.1) so, if MS can't tempt people to use Windows 10, IE might still be around for a while.