Warning: In just a few days, the ebooks you've purchased from Microsoft will vanish

It's a little while since Microsoft announced that is dropping the Books category from the Microsoft Store, but a serious deadline is now looming. If you have bought books or downloaded free books from the Store, you only have a few more days to read them -- so if there are any you haven't finished, you'd better start reading quickly! While no specific date has been announced, Microsoft warns that you'll only be able to read your books "until early July 2019". See also: Microsoft notifies users whose systems are 'not quite ready' for Windows 10 May 2019 Update Millions… [Continue Reading] Continue reading at 'Betanews'

[ Betanews | 2019-06-28 15:41:08 UTC ]
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