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Here at Lenovo’s Accelerate conference in Orlando, the ThinkPad maker dropped several new durable notebooks designed for K-12. I got a chance to play around with them for a few minutes yesterday between breakout sessions, but the N23 stands out to me as a real winner for K-12. It’s a honest to goodness Yoga style convertible, but crazy durable, with solid state storage, decent amount of RAM, Windows 10, and nice looking display for only $249.

If you’re at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference attending sessions and roaming the halls, don’t forget to head to the store and grab one of several special offers Microsoft has for partners.

The Windows 10 core will power the largest range of devices imaginable, from the desktop to small dedicated IoT (Internet of Things) devices, so it’s no surprise that Microsoft is taking security to a whole new level.

Teams at Microsoft are heading out into their communities and doing some feel-good work on the 29th, and they invite partners around the globe to join them.

On July 29th, the free upgrade to Windows 10 will start rolling out to customers around the world. Not only is Microsoft hoping you upgrade your system, but your entire world. Microsoft’s Terry Myerson took to the stage at the Worldwide Partner Conference this week to announce their do-good inititiative.

Whether coincidence or a pure disdain for even numbers, Microsoft is replacing the current top-end Office 365 Enterprise E4 SKU with an all new E5 plan.

Microsoft kicked off its Worldwide Partner Conference this morning by showing off Project GigJam, a new service supposedly years in the making that hopes to provide a whole new way for people to involve others in business tasks.

Windows 10 and Windows 10 Mobile are the hot topics here at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference in Orlando, Fla. The mobility of the Office experience is of particular interest to partners, and Microsoft isn’t holding back on showing off new productivity experiences across devices, thanks to an updated suite of Universal Office Apps that will run across phones, tablets, and desktops.

Remember that ThinkCenter Tiny-in-One we reviewed not long ago, where the M92p could just slide right in to power it? Now there’s a Chrome version.

Earlier this year, Microsoft announced that Windows 10 will be a free upgrade for all Windows 7 and 8.1 users if done within the first year of release. Today at the WinHEC technology conference in Shenzhen, China, Microsoft’s Terry Myerson revealed that Windows 10 will be a free upgrade to users regardless of whether the current Windows installation is genuine or not.

Consumers and businesses proved that if they like a version of Windows, they’re happy to stick with it forever. That’s part of the reason why Windows XP, even unsupported and older than some teenage children, is still in use. Microsoft simply isn’t willing to let Windows 7, the last truly loved OS out of Redmond, to become the next XP. As a result, for the first year after launch, anyone running a PC with Windows 7 or later will be able to upgrade to Windows 10 absolutely free.