New Delhi: There is a definite reason to cheer as India will be one of the 13 countries to host the mega launch of the much-awaited Windows 10, the latest version of the popular operating system, by global giant Microsoft on July 29.
Microsoft is hosting events across 13 global cities, including New Delhi, to launch the latest edition of its operating system.
“We will celebrate the unprecedented role our biggest fans – more than 5 million Windows Insiders – played in the development of Windows 10 at special events in 13 cities around the world, including Sydney, Tokyo, Singapore, Beijing, New Delhi, Dubai, Nairobi, Berlin, Johannesburg, Madrid, London, Sao Paolo, and New York City,” Microsoft said in a blogpost.
These celebrations will offer hands-on opportunities, experiential demos, entertainment and opportunities to meet the Windows team, it added.
Microsoft will launch Windows 10, a successor to the current Windows 8.1 operating system, across 190 countries on July 29 as a free upgrade or with new PCs and tablets.
Windows 10 has innovations like Cortana, Microsoft Edge and the Xbox app. Microsoft claims the new OS is faster, more secure and compatible.
Microsoft is also partnering 10 global and 100 local non-profits to make a cash investment of $10 million in support of their missions and to promote awareness of their causes.
“In addition to the global non-profits, starting in September, we will crowd source nominations for 10 non-profits in each of the following 10 countries: Australia, China, France, Germany, India, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, the UK and the US. The 100 local winners will each receive a cash investment to support their work to upgrade the world,” Microsoft said.
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— Satya Nadella spells out Microsoft’s bold ambitions for future —
Underscoring three bold ambitions for Microsoft, the tech giant’s India-born CEO Satya Nadella on Tuesday said the company will focus on personal computing, reinvention of productivity and business process and building an intelligent cloud platform.
Nadella, 47, was addressing over 12,000 Microsoft partners, senior company executives, technology experts and analysts during the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2015 at the sprawling Orange County Convention Centre in the US state of Florida.
Listing the three “bold ambitions” for Microsoft, Nadella, said one ambition is personal computing, which is “the very core of our company.”
“Windows 10 is going to usher in this new era of more personal computing. We couldn’t be more excited, three weeks away from launch. It is not just the technology but what Windows means for this ecosystem is what is driving us,” Nadella said in his keynote address at the conference.
He added Windows 10 is going to run on everything from phones to tablets to surface hubs as well as to the Holo Lens, Microsoft’s first fully untethered, see-through holographic computer.Â