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Puzzlingly, this doesn’t work on PCs that connect to the internet via an Ethernet port, which is worth remembering if you’ve got several PCs wired to your internet router. One decent-sized update and you could find yourself over your data limit.A tricky one, as Windows 10 handles more personal information than ever. Its ability to sync your browser history across devices will be valued by anyone with a desktop PC, a laptop and a Surface device, while Cortana’s uncannily accurate speech recognition is a useful, futuristic touch. Meanwhile, OneDrive, Microsoft’s Dropbox-beating cloud storage and document service, weaves pervasive online storage throughout the OS.The bad news is that all this involves sending data to Microsoft. Syncing browsers across different devices involves transmitting your browsing history, bookmarks, favourites, saved website passwords and your wireless networks’ names and passwords to Microsoft. Cortana collects data from your calendar and email, as well as your Bing search history.

There are deeper problems if you’ve taken the time to read Microsoft’s user agreement. It’s firm about its right to “access, disclose and preserve personal data” in order to “protect [our] customers”, and the eagle-eyed will have spotted that Windows 10’s advertising engine is based on “your likely interests or other information that we learn about you over time using demographic data, search queries, interests and favourites, usage data, and location data”.If that’s made you nervous, head to Settings, then Privacy. Feel free to uncheck as many of the boxes as you like. Cortana can be put out to pasture by clicking the search box in the taskbar and then choosing the Settings icon (the cog).Slide Cortana to off. Finally, sync settings can be found in the Accounts section of the Settings panel, and can be turned off completely or individually.

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It’s Microsoft’s aim to have Windows 10 installed on a billion PCs by 2017, which is why, if you already have a Windows operating system from Windows 7 SP1 onwards, you can get the new OS for free.It’s possible to get a Windows 10 ISO for future use direct from Microsoft. As long as you have a valid product key, either for Windows 10 or a qualifying previous OS, it will still work.The caveat to all of this is that users hedging their bets shouldn’t be too cautious. Windows 10 will be free to install for a year after its release: Microsoft says the offer ends 29 July 2016, and free upgrade installations must be completed by then. You can buy a boxed or download version of Windows 10 for around £85.A year after it was first launched, Windows 10 continues to evolve. Now, as the product moves from its “free to everyone” model, the company has released the Anniversary Update. This builds on Windows 10’s most successful features while significantly changing those that users have found to be annoying, irritating or just plain missing.