Records biggest one-month increase since August 2015 after launching 'click-the-X' trick
Window of opportunity for Windows phones will close by end of year, says analyst
Secondary notice of pending upgrade was not added recently, but harks back to early May
Consumer-play dead to Microsoft, which will focus remaining hardware goals on corporate
It's interpreted closing a Windows 10 offer's window as authorizing an upgrade since at least late March
Google's move to let Android apps run in Chrome OS doesn't change the game, analysts assert
Will drop the pausing 'interstitial' page that now pops up when users switch between the two browsers
In a monthly-active user race, Microsoft gets its hat handed to it
Sells the bare-bones feature phone part of the disastrous Nokia deal for $350M
The bad news? Bundle of five years of fixes available only on Microsoft's Update Catalog, a hard-to-navigate site that mandates IE
