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posted by janrinok on Wednesday July 15 2015, @12:01PM   Printer-friendly
from the I'm-not-sure-that-they-know dept.

Dell contradicts Microsoft, says Windows 10 will be installed on PCs starting July 29. It turns out Windows 10 will be installed on PCs from four major manufacturers.

Dell Inc. CEO Michael Dell said on Twitter that he expects Windows 10 to ship on new Dell PCs on July 29, contradicting a statement made yesterday by Microsoft.

Microsoft, which is still testing the highly anticipated operating system, said consumers would have to work with their local retailers to upgrade to Windows 10 after purchasing their new devices, in a blog post.

This means that all new units, such as the Dell XPS 15, on which Microsoft demoed Windows 10 during Computex, would not come with Windows 10 preinstalled, but rather users would have to upgrade at retail locations.

After some confusion regarding what was actually going to happen, Microsoft announced:

[...] Dell, HP, Lenovo, and Acer will begin shipping PCs on July 29 with Windows 10 preinstalled, Microsoft told Bloomberg.

Yusuf Mehdi, Vice President of Windows and Device Marketing, was mistaken when he wrote in a blog post that PCs shipping on July 29 would not have the new operating system preinstalled.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15 2015, @06:52PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15 2015, @06:52PM (#209509)

    There is going to be tons of issues. I expect a lot of "Windows ate my homework" complaints for a while. And the push out to Windows 7 and 8 users- I just cannot see this going well. Intel is on their tick with Broadwell so I do not expect to see anything interesting power-wise until Skylake later this year so I would definitely agree that there will be tons of Black Friday Broadwell deals. The more interesting formfactors you can do with Skylake probably will be released for Christmas season.