Windows 10

China is not satisfied with Microsoft’s response to its ongoing antitrust investigation. And it has requested that the software giant address the “major problems” it has with the data Microsoft used to explain itself.

Microsoft’s Windows Store is seeing new signs of life with increased activity from developers and consumers are buying more apps too.

Windows 10 is now installed on more than 200 million devices with 22 million devices in the enterprise and education sector running the platform; the OS is outpacing Windows 7 and Windows 8 install rate.

It’s hard to believe that 2015 is now behind us, which means that with a new year, it’s time to take a look at what Microsoft is planning for 2016.

Because auld acquaintance should never be forgot, this (short) week’s other news includes Microsoft encryption news from the past, Microsoft v. Corel, someone finally sues Apple over forced obsolescence, and Google is ripping the Java guts out of Android.

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2015 was a watershed year for Microsoft, with many notable product releases and updates. But Microsoft’s 2015 was in turn both good and bad, a series of ups and downs. Worse, some of its biggest successes were tarnished by unnecessary setbacks.

Russell Smith shows how to set the Windows 10 lock screen to use Windows Spotlight, and disable the Windows Hero image on the sign-in screen.

Microsoft has announced a joint venture that will sell and service Windows 10 in China’s governmental agencies and certain state owned enterprises.

Microsoft has pulled another Windows 10 update because of issues impacting customers trying to install the files on their mobile devices.