BENGALURU: Windows is one of the widely trusted and highly used operating system. According to Microsoft, Windows 10 has 300 million users worldwide and the company has planned surprises for its users on occasion of upcoming anniversary. The company is planning to introduce various changes for its users and interestingly, one of it is the company going to put an end to free upgrade for Windows 10.

According to Microsoft, Windows 10 will be available as a service since it is going to be the last version of Windows. Though Windows 7 and 8 users still have time till 29^th July to upgrade freely to Windows 10 but later on users will have to buy license to upgrade. The license to upgrade to Windows 10 will be available approximately 8000 although the OS will be sent with new devices.

In a conference, held last year, Microsoft executives said that the prior versions of OS were equipped with planned life cycles. But the latest Microsoft 10 is modeled as a service which can be updated freely once you have the license. As a token of thanks, Microsoft is planning going to introduce free upgrades for every user.

Though it is said that Windows 10 has 300 million users, the growth rate have a different story to tell. It is evident from various sources that there was a sluggish growth rate for Windows 10. It was also stated that very few people were installing Windows 10 in a month and the company was experiencing trifling returns from the OS. Meanwhile, Microsoft introduced ‘Edge’ browser which witnessed 50% growth in just a quarter where Edge was developed as replacement for ‘Internet Explorer’. But remember, it is the only time for Windows 7 and Windows 8 OS users to upgrade your machine to Windows 10. 

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