Windows 10, you may not be entitled to have his updated on August 2 – 01net.com

On 2 August, to celebrate the end of the graceful migration of Windows 10 and the first anniversary of the latter, Microsoft announced deploy the update “Anniversary”.

This should bring many changes, especially in the start , the ability to add extensions to the Edge browser, or even a little more hands on Cortana. This, too, this update that will begin to prepare the ground for the Play Anywhere, service crossplatform for PC gamers and Xbox One (and Xbox One S), announced at the E3 2016.

However, according Donar Sarkar, head of the Windows Insider program, whose remarks were reported by Digital Trend “ the update deployment will not be immediate for all our users . We begin of course by the PC and smartphones, but considering the number of outstanding devices, this will take time. “Indeed, with over 350 million Windows 10 devices, the giant does not take any risks and would avoid wasting the first birthday party.

so do not panic if Windows Update does not announce August 2! It’s just that you are not in the first to receive the update but that it will arrive within hours / days that follow. Console yourself by saying that if a major problem is detected by first-time buyers after deployment, you will not be touched!

A billion device in Windows 10, but not in 2018

this anniversary provides an opportunity for Microsoft to revise its predictions devices came under Windows 10 in 2018. the giant horizon Redmond announced Friday in a statement sent to AFP, that reaching the level of billion devices in Windows 10 in a year and a half seemed complicated him. But ultimately achievable.

And it’s not because the PC market is in steady decline that forecasts can not be kept. No, a priori, the “fault” would be the Windows 10 Mobile smartphones. Devices whose development was first delayed since the purchase of Nokia in 2013. And, above all, after a few tries neither bad nor processed with the Lumia 950 and 950 XL compel Microsoft to become realistic difficult to compete with iOS and Android.

the result, telephony has momentarily eclipsed priorities of Microsoft’s agenda this year, as a side effect, the elimination of 1850 jobs in Finland, Nokia in May.