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Only Windows 7 SP1 and Windows 8.1 Update will be able upgrade to Windows 10 through the Windows Update service. Users with older editions will have to install the upgrade from a USB drive or DVD media, loaded with a disk image downloaded from Microsoft’s servers. It will not be possible to upgrade retired versions like Windows XP; Windows Vista will also not be upgradeable.

Windows 10 will use less storage space on your computer. Microsoft revealed information about a new compression algorithm for compressing system files that saves ~1.5 GB of storage for 32-bit and ~2.6 GB of storage for 64-bit Windows.

Also, a new build of Windows 10, 10049, is available at this time. With this release comes the new, awaited Project Spartan web browser.

You can download the Windows 10 Technical Preview Build 10049 here.

The exact date has not been specified yet, but it was officially announced that Windows 10 will be out this summer in 190 countries and 111 languages and it will be a free upgrade for Windows 7 and Windows 8 users for one year after the operating system launches.

So, it will be launched sooner than expected.

Windows 10 will also be available for smartphones and the Xbox One. It will include Windows Hello biometric authentication – providing instant access to your devices. You’ll be able to unlock your devices with your face, fingerprint and iris scan, instead of a password.

For now, you can download the Windows 10 Technical Preview build 10041 here.

Read more about Windows 10 features on our previous blog post ‘Windows 10 – One OS to Rule Them All’.