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Microsoft pins hopes on Windows 10

Company wants system to entice more tablet and smartphone buyers to choose Windows models

Published Thu, Apr 30, 2015 · 09:50 PM

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    MICROSOFT Corp expects a billion people to be using its Windows 10 operating system in the software's first two to three years, signalling optimism in its push to revive Windows and make it more useful on smaller devices.

    Windows chief Terry Myerson made the forecast on Wednesday at the company's Build developer conference in San Francisco. He also unveiled tools to make it easier to convert applications originally programmed for Google Inc's Android and Apple Inc's iOS platforms to Windows phones without rewriting the code.

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