Happy Holidays and a Joyous New Year to All FindMySoft Readers
The winter holidays are upon us and 2015 will shortly be over. As another year comes to a close, it’s time for myself and all my colleagues here are FindMySoft to take a well-deserved and much needed break. We’ll take a short break to celebrate the winter holidays, spend time with friends and family, re-watch The Force Awakens, finish playing Fallout 4, and do various other things people do when they don’t have to work. Before we close shop for the holidays, I want to say…
Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, have joyous New Year! A big "thank you" goes out to every visitor who read the news, checked out the reviews, and downloaded software hosted by FindMySoft. We’ll be back next year, rested and ready to present more interesting news, test & review more software applications. We’ll be back on Monday, January 4, 2016.
In December, big name companies from the software world present their “year in review”. Take Google for example. The tech giant presented the year’s top trending searches, most popular YouTube videos, the most popular Android apps on Google Play, and the year’s best Android games.
As I was saying, December is when companies present their “year in review”. I’m going to do the same. Here are the news articles that got the most views on FindMySoft this year.
1. Microsoft to Offer Windows 10 as a Free Upgrade
Microsoft held a special event on Wednesday, January 21, 2015, and shared some more information about the Windows 10 operating system. One of the things Microsoft shared is that Windows 10 will be offered for free to Windows 7, Windows 8.1, and Windows Phone 8.1 customers who upgrade in the first year.
On July 29, Microsoft released the operating system to the public. 75 million people upgraded to Windows 10 within the first month. And according to the new Microsoft by the Numbers, more than 110 million devices have been upgraded to Windows 10 since its release.
2. Pre-register for Upcoming Android Apps, Pre-register for 'Terminator Genisys: Revolution'
This May, Google introduced a new feature for its Google Play app store: the option to pre-register for upcoming Android apps. Glu Mobile’s 'Terminator Genisys: Revolution' action game was the first to take advantage of this feature.
3. All Animal Results for Google's Earth Day Quiz
April 22 is Earth Day, a day dedicated to celebrating our natural environment and raising awareness about environmental protection issues. This year, Google celebrated Earth Day with a special Google Doodle and with an interesting “which animal are you?” quiz. The quiz had 12 possible results and I uncovered all of them.
4. Panda Security Celebrates 25th Anniversary, Announces Important Changes
The Cloud security company celebrated its 25th anniversary this January. It was an important occasion and to mark it, the company announced internal and external changes based on a concept Panda calls “simplexity” – taking complex things and making them simple.
5. Uninstall System Apps with CCleaner for Android
This February, Piriform updated the very useful CCleaner for Android app to version 1.07, making the junk-cleaning utility more useful than ever. You see, the update introduced the option to uninstall system apps – but only if you have a rooted Android.
In related news, do you know that you can clean and optimize your PC from anywhere with Piriform’s Cleaner Cloud?
6. Canadians Get a Sneak Peek at a New Angry Birds Game
Angry Birds Under Pigstruction, Rovio’s new Angry Birds game, soft launched in Canada back in March. The game was released to the rest of the world in July, under a new name: Angry Birds 2. In the first week after the game’s launch, it had already been downloaded 20 million times. By the second week, it had been downloaded 30 million times. Angry Birds 2 is such a big hit that Google featured it as the most popular casual game of 2015 and Facebook featured it as one of the best mobile games of 2015.
7. Word, Excel and PowerPoint for Android Phones Hit General Availability
In January, Word, Excel and PowerPoint for Android tablets hit GA (General Availability). In June, Microsoft was done with all the testing and released Word, Excel and PowerPoint for Android phones.
8. Facebook's Place Tips Offer Useful Info about Locations
Place Tips, a feature announced by Facebook this January, detects your location and uses it to provide useful, relevant, and fun information about locations. Place tips may show up at the top of your News Feed when you’re out and about.
9. Angry Birds Go! Party Mode Lets You Play One-on-One On Different Devices
Two players can race against one another in the same game, as long as they’re both connected to the same WiFi network. This means that you can play one-on-one against a friend. You’re both in the same game, at the same time, in the same location – but you each get to use your own device.
10. BitTorrent Announces Plans to Produce and Distribute Original Shows
BitTorrent wants to produce and distribute original shows. In partnership with Rapid Eye Studios, BitTorrent will find, produce and distribute original video content. The whole thing will be known as BitTorrent Originals.
Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, have joyous New Year! A big "thank you" goes out to every visitor who read the news, checked out the reviews, and downloaded software hosted by FindMySoft. We’ll be back next year, rested and ready to present more interesting news, test & review more software applications. We’ll be back on Monday, January 4, 2016.
In December, big name companies from the software world present their “year in review”. Take Google for example. The tech giant presented the year’s top trending searches, most popular YouTube videos, the most popular Android apps on Google Play, and the year’s best Android games.
As I was saying, December is when companies present their “year in review”. I’m going to do the same. Here are the news articles that got the most views on FindMySoft this year.
1. Microsoft to Offer Windows 10 as a Free Upgrade
Microsoft held a special event on Wednesday, January 21, 2015, and shared some more information about the Windows 10 operating system. One of the things Microsoft shared is that Windows 10 will be offered for free to Windows 7, Windows 8.1, and Windows Phone 8.1 customers who upgrade in the first year.
On July 29, Microsoft released the operating system to the public. 75 million people upgraded to Windows 10 within the first month. And according to the new Microsoft by the Numbers, more than 110 million devices have been upgraded to Windows 10 since its release.
2. Pre-register for Upcoming Android Apps, Pre-register for 'Terminator Genisys: Revolution'
This May, Google introduced a new feature for its Google Play app store: the option to pre-register for upcoming Android apps. Glu Mobile’s 'Terminator Genisys: Revolution' action game was the first to take advantage of this feature.
3. All Animal Results for Google's Earth Day Quiz
April 22 is Earth Day, a day dedicated to celebrating our natural environment and raising awareness about environmental protection issues. This year, Google celebrated Earth Day with a special Google Doodle and with an interesting “which animal are you?” quiz. The quiz had 12 possible results and I uncovered all of them.
4. Panda Security Celebrates 25th Anniversary, Announces Important Changes
The Cloud security company celebrated its 25th anniversary this January. It was an important occasion and to mark it, the company announced internal and external changes based on a concept Panda calls “simplexity” – taking complex things and making them simple.
5. Uninstall System Apps with CCleaner for Android
This February, Piriform updated the very useful CCleaner for Android app to version 1.07, making the junk-cleaning utility more useful than ever. You see, the update introduced the option to uninstall system apps – but only if you have a rooted Android.
In related news, do you know that you can clean and optimize your PC from anywhere with Piriform’s Cleaner Cloud?
6. Canadians Get a Sneak Peek at a New Angry Birds Game
Angry Birds Under Pigstruction, Rovio’s new Angry Birds game, soft launched in Canada back in March. The game was released to the rest of the world in July, under a new name: Angry Birds 2. In the first week after the game’s launch, it had already been downloaded 20 million times. By the second week, it had been downloaded 30 million times. Angry Birds 2 is such a big hit that Google featured it as the most popular casual game of 2015 and Facebook featured it as one of the best mobile games of 2015.
7. Word, Excel and PowerPoint for Android Phones Hit General Availability
In January, Word, Excel and PowerPoint for Android tablets hit GA (General Availability). In June, Microsoft was done with all the testing and released Word, Excel and PowerPoint for Android phones.
8. Facebook's Place Tips Offer Useful Info about Locations
Place Tips, a feature announced by Facebook this January, detects your location and uses it to provide useful, relevant, and fun information about locations. Place tips may show up at the top of your News Feed when you’re out and about.
9. Angry Birds Go! Party Mode Lets You Play One-on-One On Different Devices
Two players can race against one another in the same game, as long as they’re both connected to the same WiFi network. This means that you can play one-on-one against a friend. You’re both in the same game, at the same time, in the same location – but you each get to use your own device.
10. BitTorrent Announces Plans to Produce and Distribute Original Shows
BitTorrent wants to produce and distribute original shows. In partnership with Rapid Eye Studios, BitTorrent will find, produce and distribute original video content. The whole thing will be known as BitTorrent Originals.
