Microsoft has launched a new lightweight version of Windows 10, built for simplicity and performance on lower-end machines.<\/p>\n
Windows 10 S was revealed\u00a0at the company’s #MicrosoftEDU event<\/strong><\/a> and aims to solve problems encountered in education – such as multi-user and educational tools support.<\/p>\n The company also said the full Office Suite will soon arrive on the Windows Store.<\/p>\n Windows 10 S offers superior performance and security, and can run on a wide range of hardware, said Microsoft.<\/p>\n Users can only run applications available on the Windows Store platform, and attempting to run an external application will result in the user being redirected to a similar program on the store.<\/p>\n An education administration suite, which includes a built-in wizard for setting up multiple Windows 10 desktops in classrooms, and\u00a0new education-focussed PCs from Microsoft partners are also part of the drive to get more users on Windows.<\/p>\n Windows 10 S will be available on PCs from Microsoft partners and will be free for schools using Windows 10 Pro PCs.<\/p>\n Microsoft has launched a new lightweight version of Windows 10, built for simplicity and performance on lower-end machines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":110808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[15789,42920,123,42918],"class_list":["post-208974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-education","tag-lightweight","tag-microsoft","tag-windows-10-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208974"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208974"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208980,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208974\/revisions\/208980"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:\u00a0Microsoft will deliver two major Windows 10 updates a year<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"