At its Windows event in San Francisco today, Microsoft announced the next release of its operating system. Known until now as codename Threshold, the successor to Windows 8 will officially be known as Windows 10. Terry Myerson, Microsoft’s Executive Vice President of Operating System, unveiled the name, after saying Windows is used by about 1.5 billion people. “Windows is at a Threshold and now it’s time for a new Windows,” Myerson said at the event. “It wouldn’t be right to call it Windows 9.”

The new operating system will offer a tailored experience for each device, but a single store will offer apps and updates across all devices. Windows 10 “will deliver the right experience on the right device at the right time,” Myerson said.

The Start menu not only has live tiles, but you can resize them, which impacts the overall size of the menu itself. You can also search the Web and receive results without opening up a browser.
While showing off the new operating system, Joe Belfiore, Corporate Vice President, Operating Systems Group at Microsoft, said today that going from Windows 8 to Windows 10 is like going from a Prius to a Tesla. “They don’t have to learn any new way to drive.”





Despite the focus on the mice and keyboard today, Microsoft will keep the touch part of Windows 8 around. The argument here is that touch users have higher satisfaction on Windows 8 devices than on Windows 7 devices. The opposite is true for mouse and keyboard users. As a result, Microsoft wants businesses to think of Windows 10 as a merging of Windows 7 and Windows 8.

“One of the most important customers for Windows is the enterprise,” Myerson said at the event. Redmond is very interested in communicating that it has been hard at work to move away from Windows 8, which many have criticized for not being as easy to use with a mouse and keyboard.
The next version of Windows was widely expected to arrive sometime next year. Even the Wi-Fi password at the event was chosen to remind everyone of this: “Windows2015.”

Karbonn partnered with Microsoft earlier this year to launch Windows Phone devices. Karbonn Titanium Wind W4, the company’s first Windows Phone device is now available from Amazon.in. Priced at just Rs.5,999, this is the cheapest Windows Phone 8.1 smartphone with Dual SIM support in India currently, cheaper than the Nokia Lumia 530 Dual SIM that was launched recently.



It has a 4-inch WVGA screen, powered by a a 1.2 GHz quad-core Snapdragon (probably Snapdragon 200) processor and a 5-megapixel auto focus rear camera with LED flash and a front-facing camera, according to the listing. Other specifications are similar to the Lumia 530, but no word on the battery capacity yet.

Karbonn Titanium Wind W4 Specifications :

• 4-inch (800 x 480 pixels) display
• 1.2 GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon processor
• 512MB RAM, 4GB internal memory, expandable memory with microSD
• Windows Phone 8.1 OS
• Dual SIM
• 5MP autofocus rear camera with LED flash
• front-facing camera
• 3G, WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth, GPS

The Karbonn Titanium Wind W4 comes in black, white and red colors, but currently only the white variant is on sale. Xolo launched the Win Q900s, the company’s first Windows Phone handset recently.

Microsoft is offering users who backup their photos to OneDrive the opportunity to double their free online storage for a limited time. From now until the end of September, users can claim 30GB of space for saving twice as many photos in the cloud.

All you have to do is sign up for OneDrive and activate the auto upload feature for your camera roll sometime between now and the end of September, and you will get 30 GB of free OneDrive storage moving forward (15 GB base and 15 GB camera roll bonus).”

Microsoft is marketing the offer at iPhone users who are upgrading to iOS 8 or purchasing a new iPhone 6 or iPhone 6 Plus, but the extra space can be claimed by Android and Windows Phone users, too. Just remember that you must sign up before the end of September, otherwise you’re going to miss out on the 15GB bonus.

By backing up your photos and videos to an online storage service like OneDrive, you can enjoy them at any time and on almost any device without having to store them locally. That’s why a service like OneDrive is essential for users with entry-level and midrange devices that don’t offer a lot of internal storage — or 16GB iPhone users that don’t have the pleasure of a microSD card slot.
By storing your photos and videos in the cloud, you can save local storage space and have more room for apps, music, movies, and more. It also means that if your handset is lost or stolen and you never get it back, you haven’t lost your precious memories.