Microsoft have announced a raft of enhancements coming to their Windows 10 operating system in the first part of 2017. As with the last feature updates, these will be released free to all Windows 10 users.

As we have mentioned in most of the last few newsletters, the limited time offer to upgrade to Windows 10 for free has now ended. Friday was the last day to take advantage of this. This is exactly one year since Windows 10 was made generally available to the public.

Microsoft have recently announced the date that the offer to upgrade to Windows 10 for free will end. As we have discussed in previous blogs, this was always a limited-time offer. As hinted previously, the offer will come to an end on July 29th - pretty much exactly a year after the initial release.

Time is running out to take advantage of Microsoft's offer to upgrade to Windows 10 for free. While the exact date that the offer ends hasn't yet been announced, it is likely to be towards the end of July - a year after the initial release of Windows 10.

In their recent "Build" conference, Microsoft revealed a host of new features coming to Windows 10 in an update planned for the first anniversary of its release in the summer.

As of the 12th January, Microsoft have ended support for all but the most recent version of Internet Explorer. This means that the older versions will cease to be updated, and will therefore quickly become susceptible to attack.

As we have previously reported, Windows 10 is being offered as a free upgrade (for a year) to most users of Windows 7 and 8.

The latest version of Microsoft Office is now available to download for Windows, with the Mac version having already been available for a few weeks.