Windows 10 updates began today. Near midnight last night, Terry Myerson tweeted that the first wave of upgrades had begun. https://twitter.com/tmyerson/status/626250294884593665 The Windows blog headline reads that the free Windows 10 upgrade is available in 190 countries today and the Windows 10 launch site gives 10 reasons to upgrade and the Microsoft blog tries to start … [Read more...]

With Windows 10 arriving as an upgrade in 9 days, we're starting to see pre-order information come to the surface. Confirming that Windows 10 will be available on a USB device, many retailers are offering the installs available for pre-order as a system builder install. As many people will be able to take advantage of the offer to upgrade from Windows 7 or Windows 8 for free … [Read more...]

Creating a bootable USB drive Mac OS X installer can save you time and bandwidth when you have a few Macs you want to update or you want a backup copy of your operating system installer. Fortunately, it's pretty straight forward to create a USB installer for the latest OS X El Capitan, currently in beta, and the process is the same as OS X 10.10 Yosemite. You will have to apply … [Read more...]

Windows 10 is only 20 days away from general release. If you're feeling any anxiety about those users that ask for the latest and greatest on the day it's released, preparation might help you be able to answer their questions and have a better start on day 1 to deploy Windows 10 to your organization. This article collects resources that can improve your interactions and … [Read more...]

Going through the Windows Insider program can lead to a lot of confusion. You hear different things about the goal of Windows 10 and then with each new build that comes out, you find it moving further away from that goal even if it started out standing on the finish line. You could take the "Windows 7 + Windows 8" appeal that Windows 10 was supposed to have. They got rid of the … [Read more...]