XP is not free to upgrade Windows 10 The biggest complaint for users in China

Absrtact: At today's WinHEC conference, Microsoft invited Tencent Senior executive vice president, social Networking Business Group President Tong Dawsong and Qihoo 360 chairman and chief Executive Officer Zhou to publish cooperation news together. Microsoft has said Windows 7 and Windows 8.x users can

At today's WinHEC conference, Microsoft invited Tencent Senior executive vice president, social Networking Business Group President Tong Dawsong and Qihoo 360 chairman and chief executive Officer Zhou to release the cooperation message together.

Microsoft has said Windows 7 and Windows 8.x users can receive a one-year free upgrade after Windows 10 is officially launched, and can continue to get all of the Windows 10-related features and security updates. However, while NetMarketShare's data suggests that the share of XP is only 19%, it can be expected that a significant percentage of the Chinese users are not included in the statistics, leaving XP free to upgrade Windows 10, the biggest complaint for Chinese users.

As Microsoft WinHEC restarted, Tencent's computer Butler released an official collaboration page with Microsoft ahead of schedule. The official page says Tencent will provide Windows 10 upgrade assistant for XP, Windows 7 and Windows 8.x users, assistant to provide Windows 10 News push, accelerated download after the system launch, backup, upgrade rollback and intelligent Customer service function, in addition to run upgrade assistant and login QQ Account users full half an hour a day to get 0.2 days QQ account level acceleration.

However, according to our trial, the Upgrade assistant only displays a floating window on the desktop that is not available in the normal way (system tray or taskbar icon), even if the user logs out the QQ account, the suspension window still exists. However, the theme of the suspension window does not cover the desktop, do not affect the day-to-day operation.

Baidu snapshots can still be viewed through the hidden Tencent Computer Butler Forum official posts, Microsoft will today and Tencent announced strategic cooperation, the latter will be the Windows 10 in China's official partner, to provide users with Windows 101 key upgrade services. More importantly, XP and Vista users can get free Windows 10 updates, in addition to Windows 7, Windows 8.x. Tencent Computer Butler will provide a certain degree of security protection and drive automatic completion service in the course of user upgrade.

The images were then exposed by Weibo users named [at]it Internet broadcast preview, suggesting that 360 would also collaborate with Microsoft in providing similar services.

Microsoft will be in Shenzhen today to restart the WinHEC hardware Partners Conference, is expected to be at the meeting with Ma, Zhou announced the relevant cooperation issues.

It is unclear whether software bundled with two companies will be forced to bundle up after Windows 10 through Tencent's computer butler or 360, but it is not XP or Vista users who can opt for an official channel upgrade after the official launch of Windows 10.