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At the time of launch, Microsoft deemed Windows 7 (with Service Pack 1) and Windows 8.1 users eligible to upgrade to Windows 10 free of charge, so long as the upgrade took place within one year of Windows 10's initial release date. Windows RT and the respective Enterprise editions of Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 were excluded from this offer.
Microsoft Intune (formerly Microsoft Endpoint Manager and Windows Intune) is a Microsoft cloud-based unified endpoint management service for both corporate and BYOD devices. [2] It extends some of the "on-premises" functionality of Microsoft Configuration Manager to the Microsoft Azure cloud.
Windows 10 was released with an updated version of the Windows Store, which merged Microsoft's other distribution platforms (Windows Marketplace, Windows Phone Store, Xbox Video and Xbox Music) into a unified store front for Windows 10 on all platforms, offering apps, games, music, film, TV series, [13] [14] themes, [15] and ebooks. [16]
Microsoft Teams is a web-based desktop app, originally developed on top of the Electron framework which combines the Chromium rendering engine and the Node.js JavaScript platform. [46] Version 2.0 was rebuilt using the Evergreen version of Microsoft Edge WebView2 in place of Electron.
Initially it was available only for Windows Mobile 6.5, and was made available to older 6.x versions a few weeks later. [2] On February 15, 2010, Microsoft announced its next generation mobile platform named Windows Phone; there is a separate app store, Windows Phone Store, for it; WM6.x apps are not compatible with WP7.
Windows Phone Store supported credit card purchases, operator billing, and ad-supported content. The store also featured a "try-before-you-buy" option, where the user had an option to download a trial or demo for a commercial app. [2] Other features are said to be similar to Windows Phone Store's predecessor, Windows Marketplace for Mobile.
The App Store is a digital distribution platform which allows users to browse and download apps developed with Apple's iOS Software Development Kit. The App Store opened on July 10, 2008, with the release of IPhone OS 2 , launching with 500 applications available.
[45] [46] Microsoft also unveiled the concept of a "universal Windows app", allowing Windows Store apps created for Windows 8.1 to be ported to Windows Phone 8.1 and Xbox One while sharing a common codebase, with an interface designed for different device form factors, and allowing user data and licenses for an app to be shared between multiple ...