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Windows 10 will be made available in 7 Editions

Windows 10 will be made available in 7 Editions

by | May 13, 2015 | General, Windows, WIndows Phone, Xbox

Windows 10 is coming and in 7 editions
Windows 10 Cross Platform

Microsoft has detailed out the versions/editions Windows 10 will be made available in when finally released later this year. They are Windows 10 Home, Mobile, Pro, Enterprise, Education, Mobile Enterprise and Internet of Things (ioT). Most PC users will use either the Windows 10 Home or Pro; the home version will mostly come pre-installed on budget pc’s whilst the pro on the more expensive devices.

 

“Windows 10 will power an incredibly broad range of devices – everything from PCs, tablets, phones, Xbox One, Microsoft HoloLens and Surface Hub. It will also power the world around us, core to devices making up the Internet of Things, everything from elevators to ATMs to heart rate monitors to wearables. No matter which Windows 10 device our customers use, the experience will feel comfortable, and there will be a single, universal Windows Store where they can find, try and buy Universal Windows apps.”

 

Here is a summary of the Windows 10 editions and what they affect in real life;

Windows 10 Home is the consumer-focused desktop edition. It offers a familiar and personal experience for PCs, tablets and 2-in-1s. Windows 10 Home will help people do great things, both big and small. With it, they will be more productive and have more fun thanks to a long list of new innovations: Cortana, the world’s most personal digital assistant; the new Microsoft Edge web browser; Continuum tablet mode for touch-capable devices; Windows Hello face-recognition, iris and fingerprint login; and right out of the box, a broad range of universal Windows apps like Photos, Maps, Mail, Calendar, Music and Video

We are also bringing the Xbox gaming experience to Windows 10, giving games and gamers access to the Xbox Live gaming community, enabling the capture and share of gameplay and giving Xbox One owners the ability to play their Xbox One games from any Windows 10 PC in their home.

Windows 10 Mobile is designed to deliver the best user experience on smaller, mobile, touch-centric devices like smartphones and small tablets. It boasts the same, new universal Windows apps that are included in Windows 10 Home, as well as the new touch-optimized version of Office. Windows 10 Mobile offers great productivity, security and management capabilities for customers who use their personal devices at work. In addition, Windows 10 Mobile will enable some new devices to take advantage of Continuum for phone, so people can use their phone like a PC when connected to a larger screen.

Windows 10 Pro is a desktop edition for PCs, tablets and 2-in-1s. Building upon both the familiar and innovative features of Windows 10 Home, it has many extra features to meet the diverse needs of small businesses. Windows 10 Pro helps to effectively and efficiently manage their devices and apps, protect their sensitive business data, support remote and mobile productivity scenarios and take advantage of cloud technologies. Windows 10 Pro devices are a great choice for organizations supporting Choose Your Own Device (CYOD) programs and prosumer customers. Windows 10 Pro also lets customers take advantage of the new Windows Update for Business, which will reduce management costs, provide controls over update deployment, offer quicker access to security updates and provide access to the latest innovation from Microsoft on an ongoing basis.

Windows 10 Enterprise builds on Windows 10 Pro, adding advanced features designed to meet the demands of medium and large sized organizations. It provides advanced capabilities to help protect against the ever-growing range of modern security threats targeted at devices, identities, applications and sensitive company information. Windows 10 Enterprise also supports the broadest range of options for operating system deployment and comprehensive device and app management. It will be available to our Volume Licensing customers, so they can take advantage of the latest innovation and security updates on an ongoing basis. At the same time, they will be able to choose the pace at which they adopt new technology, including the option to use the new Windows Update for Business. With Windows 10, Enterprise customers will also have access to the Long Term Servicing Branch as a deployment option for their mission critical devices and environments. And as with prior versions of Windows, Active Software Assurance customers in Volume Licensing can upgrade to Windows 10 Enterprise as part of their existing Software Assurance benefits.

Windows 10 Education builds on Windows 10 Enterprise, and is designed to meet the needs of schools – staff, administrators, teachers and students. This edition will be available through academic Volume Licensing, and there will be paths for schools and students using Windows 10 Home and Windows 10 Pro devices to upgrade to Windows 10 Education.

Windows 10 Mobile Enterprise is designed to deliver the best customer experience to business customers on smartphones and small tablets. It will be available to our Volume Licensing customers. It offers the great productivity, security and mobile device management capabilities that Windows 10 Mobile provides, and adds flexible ways for businesses to manage updates. In addition, Windows 10 Mobile Enterprise will incorporate the latest security and innovation features as soon as they are available.

There will also be versions of Windows 10 Enterprise and Windows 10 Mobile Enterprise for industry devices like ATMs, retail point of sale, handheld terminals and industrial robotics and Windows 10 IoT Core for small footprint, low cost devices like gateways.

“As we announced earlier this year, for the first time ever, we are offering the full versions of Windows 10 Home, Mobile and Pro as a free and easy upgrade for qualifying Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1 devices that upgrade in the first year after launch. Once you upgrade, you have Windows 10 for free on that device.”

 

These are all the details and all you must know on the editions and version.

Ghana among Top 20 User Countries of Microsoft Lumia Devices

Ghana among Top 20 User Countries of Microsoft Lumia Devices

by | May 11, 2015 | 4Afrika, General, Lumia, Windows, WIndows Phone

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Lumia 535

 

Microsoft’s mobile devices have been gaining a lot of love and attention in Africa, Europe, South America and India and this shouldn’t come as a surprise as Microsoft is building device at all levels.

The introduction of the mid range level budget friendly and low cost devices like the Lumia 520, 530, 535, 630 and 635 have seen significant rise in usage of smartphones by consumers. The mid range devices such as the Lumia 730, 830 and 1320 also give flexibity in pricing to it’s targeted audience. The mobile penetration in Africa is on the rise and as more people seek to connect and share they find the Lumia brand attractive and within their budget range.

Microsoft Ghana’s mobile device business manager Mr. Kola Osinowo said recently in his expression of gratitude to Ghanaians that Ghana is among the top most 20 user countries of the Lumia devices in the world.

I believe recent campaigns and promotions such as the #Makeithappen promo increased awareness on the productivity and range of the Lumia handsets.

 

 

 

 

Windows 10 Mobile Devices Campaign will be launched soon.

Windows 10 Mobile Devices Campaign will be launched soon.

by | May 10, 2015 | 4Afrika, Events, General, Lumia, Office, Promotion, Windows, WIndows Phone

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Microsoft mobile devices group business head, Mr. Kola Osinowo has in a press release to Ghana News Agency revealed that the group will begin a nationwide campaign of Windows 10 mobile devices. The  aim is to help consumers achieve more, enhance their technological needs  and help provide solutions. The campaign is expected to begin in Kumasi and spread to the other parts of the country. This will be during the release of the recently announced Lumia 640 and 640 XL in the country.

Mr kola Osinowo also said the Microsoft Mobile Devices Group would educate people on how to access the devices and make the best out of the Lumia, especially when it comes to similar applications found in computers.

As part of the campaign power banks will be bundled with the sale of the phones.

He said  “Considering local realities, we understand that power outage is a current problem in the country and that is why we would be bundling the devices, including Lumia 535, 640 with variety of freebies such as power banks”.

Other freebies that will be available with the purchase of a device are Office 365 for 12 months, one terabyte of One Drive storage space and a license that will allow the user to continue or transfer programmes onto a device tablet or a computer.

All existing Lumia devices that meet the requirement will be upgradeable to windows 10 later in the simmer when it’s released to the public.

 

 

Source : GNA

Microsoft Edge; The Name Chosen For Project Spartan Browser

Microsoft Edge; The Name Chosen For Project Spartan Browser

by | Apr 30, 2015 | General, Internet, Windows, WIndows Phone, Xbox

“The browser that turns browsing into doing.”

microsoft edge logo

Microsoft’s new internet browser designed to replace internet explorer code named “Project Spartan” has finally been revealed as “Microsoft EDGE” at the //Build/ 2015 developers conference.

The logo design picks up traits from internet explorer(IE), and the naming probably comes from the rendering engine; EdgeHTML.

Microsoft EDGE is going to be the main web browser on windows 10 devices, windows phones will run mainly on Microsoft Edge, but enterprise and desktop users will also have internet explorer still installed as an option.

Source : Kyle PFlug , Microsoft

15 Years old Samantha Kanyi Wins National Microsoft Office Specialist Championship 2015

15 Years old Samantha Kanyi Wins National Microsoft Office Specialist Championship 2015

by | Apr 21, 2015 | Events, General, Office, Windows

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Microsoft Office Specialist World Championship is an annual global competition that tests students’ skills and allows the entrants to demonstrate their mastery of Microsoft Office products; Microsoft Office 2010 and 2013 Word, Excel and PowerPoint by answering questions. This years final will be taking place in Dallas, Texas, United States of America from August 9-12, 2015.

This years competition opened to participants of age 13 to 22 saw over 1400 students from 78 schools in the country participating. Introduced this year by the organizers of the program was the addition of the Junior High Schools with the emerging winner eventually from one.

Samantha-Michelle Naa Korkoi Kanyi a student of the Mary Mother of Good Counsel School in Accra, emerged the winner of this year’s National Microsoft Office Specialist Championship with 985 points out of 1000, setting a new record and becoming the youngest winner in the history of the Ghana competition.

Qualifying to represent Ghana for the international completion in Dallas, Texas with Samantha are Jedidiah Koomson of the St Augustine’s College and Esther Yeboah of the SOS Hermann Gmeiner International School,

Samantha received a ticket to represent Ghana, a laptop, stationery, Microsoft branded T-shirts and a certificate as her prize.

 

 

 

Source : Business Ghana

 

Microsoft Lumia 535 Party

Microsoft Lumia 535 Party

by | Apr 9, 2015 | Events, General, Lumia, Promotion, Windows, WIndows Phone

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Microsoft Ghana’s Mobile division has held a LUMIA 535 party at the Silver Lounge, Accra Mall in Accra. The event was to honor the winners of the Lumia 535 #Makeithappen car promotion and winners of the Lumia #Makeithappen Selfie contest.

The #makeithappen promotion launched back in February gave 5 Lumia phone users the opportunity to win a Huyndai i10 each. The cocktail party had people from media houses, winners of the Lumia #makeithappen selfie contest, winners from the Lumia #makeithappen car promotion, well wishers of the winners and other individuals from the public attending.

Click for the Event Pictures.

Three media house representatives won a new Lumia 535 from a pot draw and five people were presented with a new Lumia 535 each for winning in the selfie contest. The selected five winners of the cars were presented with their keys.

Mr. Olumide Balogun, Senior Manager Product Marketing addressing the guest said Lumia’s are not built for everyone but for each one and that Microsoft seeks to reward its customers. He also stated that Lumia devices are to inspire people to do more. Congratulations from the entire Microsoft family he told the winners gathered.