Windows 10 Gets a High-Profile Midnight Release

Windows 10 will be released tonight at midnight ET, and Microsoft so badly wants you to download it that it's being given away for free. Windows 10 comes nearly three years after the launch of Windows 8, whose tile-based user interface caused some confusion for longtime users of the operating system. Microsoft heard the complaints, made some tweaks, and is now ready to make amends--the Start menu is back! Taking a page out of Apple's playbook, Microsoft is giving away the OS for all current Wind...