Microsoft have recently announced the date that the offer to upgrade to Windows 10 for free will end. As we have discussed in previous blogs, this was always a limited-time offer. As hinted previously, the offer will come to an end on July 29th - pretty much exactly a year after the initial release.
Time is running out to take advantage of Microsoft's offer to upgrade to Windows 10 for free. While the exact date that the offer ends hasn't yet been announced, it is likely to be towards the end of July - a year after the initial release of Windows 10.
In their recent "Build" conference, Microsoft revealed a host of new features coming to Windows 10 in an update planned for the first anniversary of its release in the summer.
As of the 12th January, Microsoft have ended support for all but the most recent version of Internet Explorer. This means that the older versions will cease to be updated, and will therefore quickly become susceptible to attack.
As we have previously reported, Windows 10 is being offered as a free upgrade (for a year) to most users of Windows 7 and 8.
The latest version of Microsoft Office is now available to download for Windows, with the Mac version having already been available for a few weeks.
Yesterday, we reported that a bug in Microsoft's Internet Explorer would never be patched for Windows XP users. However, in an unexpected move, Microsoft has now pushed out a fix for this vulnerability to all machines - including those running Windows XP.
Microsoft have recently warned that there is a critical bug in all versions of Internet Explorer. This bug allows a malicious website to be constructed that enables an attacker to take control of any machine that visits it - assuming that user is logged in as the machine admin. As this is often the default setup of a Windows machine, this places many users at risk.
