How to Upgrade to Windows 10 for Free, Even Now

 Updated: Jan 09, 2017 11:35 IST

When Windows 10 was announced, Microsoft had offered a free update for existing PC users, but only before July 29, 2016. If you haven't already upgraded to Windows 10 you'd think that this means you need to pay for it now. Perhaps you were too lazy or put off by Microsoft's aggressive upgrade tactics. If you're thinking about getting Windows 10 now, there's no need to worry about spending money, because the free upgrade offer is still available.

Microsoft is launching a $100,000 Killer Instinct tour

Microsoft is launching a $100,000 Killer Instinct tour 

Fighting game players received an incentive to compete in Killer Instinct on Tuesday.

One hundred thousand incentives, to be exact.

Microsoft will launch a Killer Instinct tour that will feature both online and offline competitions and will offer a total prize pool of $100,000, the company announcedon Tuesday during its E3 stream.

The Ultra Tour will include the previously-announced Killer Instinct World Cup, which recently began its second season. The World Cup began as a fan-created tournament series organized by San Antonio-based Ultra Arcade. Microsoft became an official sponsor of the World Cup midway through its first season.

Ultra Arcade was cited as one of three partners for the tour named by Killer Instinct community manager Rukari Austin. The other two were Evo, which will host what will almost certainly be the largest offline Killer Instinct tournament of the year in July, and FaceIt, an online tournament and matchmaking platform.

FaceIt may play a role in the tournament series' online component, although the World Cup already has two online qualifying tournament series; 8-Bit Beatdown and the Killer Instinct Pro League.

No other details were given at the time of the announcement. Austin stated that more information would be revealed this summer.

Although not confirmed by either World Cup organizers or Microsoft, it's likely that the Ultra Tour championship will be held in March at the Tobin Center in San Antonio, Texas. The Tobin Center was previously announced as the host of both the World Cup final and the coincidingKiller Instinct Convention.

The Ultra Tour announcement was one of two big announcements for the game during E3. Microsoft previously released General RAAM from the Gears of War series as a playable character. RAMM is the third guest character in the game, following Rash from Battletoads and Arbiter from the Halo series.

The next offline qualifying event will be held at CEO in Orlando, Fla. beginning on June 24.

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Nokia reborn

Nokia will return to mobile with Android phones and tablets

The Nokia brand will return to the smartphone market. Just as Microsoft announced it's offloading Nokia's old feature phone business to a Foxconn subsidiary and a mysterious Finnish company called HMD Global Oy, Nokia has revealed that HMD is also acquiring the relevant rights to use the Nokia name on smartphones and and tablets for the next ten years. That means we'll start seeing "Nokia-branded" phones and tablets very soon. And they'll be running Android.

We don't know a lot about HMD yet, but Arto Nummela, currently a Microsoft mobile executive, will leave the company to be HMD's CEO when the deal closes. Before joining Microsoft Nummela worked at Nokia for over a decade. Florian Seiche, another Microsoft mobile executive with a Nokia past, will join HMD as president. If the pair's involvement is anything to go by, it seems that HMD will feature some faces familiar to those that followed Nokia in its heyday.

HMD says it'll invest $500 million over the next three years to develop and promote products. This money will come both from investors and from profits from the newly-acquired feature phone business. Nokia's involvement in the new devices will be very limited. It'll take a place on HMD's board, and set "mandatory brand requirements and performance related provisions." That essentially means it's going to make sure that HMD isn't dragging its name through the mud by releasing awful devices.

Although FIH Mobile -- the Foxconn subsidiary that bought a share of Nokia/Microsoft's feature phone business -- isn't involved in this rights deal, it will be the manufacturer of the new HMD smartphones and tablets. It seems as though HMD will be selling and marketing the devices, while FIH will be doing the manufacturing. Of course, the pair will have access to Nokia's vast arsenal of mobile patents through the agreement.