{"id":122693,"date":"2016-05-06T09:46:48","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T07:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=122693"},"modified":"2016-05-06T09:46:48","modified_gmt":"2016-05-06T07:46:48","slug":"free-windows-10-offer-ending-in-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/software\/122693\/free-windows-10-offer-ending-in-july\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Windows 10 offer ending in July"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has announced that its free Windows 10 upgrade offer will end on 29 July, and has urged users to upgrade before this date.<\/p>\n<p>After 29 July, users will be able to get Windows 10 on a new device or purchase a full version of Windows 10 Home for $119.<\/p>\n<p>The free upgrade offer was a first for Microsoft and according to the company, Windows 10 now runs on 300 million active devices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver 63 billion minutes were spent on Microsoft Edge in March alone, with 50% growth in minutes since the last quarter,\u201d said Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExclusively available on Windows 10, Microsoft Edge is our modern browser for helping you get things done.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Windows<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to The evolution of Windows: 1985 to 2015\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/technology\/94687\/the-evolution-of-windows-1985-to-2015\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">The evolution of Windows: 1985 to 2015<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Windows 10 will be free for a year, and comes with a new browser\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/software\/77961\/windows-10-will-be-free-for-a-year-and-comes-with-a-new-browser\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Windows 10 will be free for a year, and comes with a new browser<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has announced that its free Windows 10 upgrade offer will end on 29 July, and has urged users to upgrade before this date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":69907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[25,8917],"class_list":["post-122693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-active","tag-windows-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122695,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122693\/revisions\/122695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}