*** The Official Microsoft Surface Thread ***

You can download the ISO and/or create a USB drive using this tool: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

However, from doing some searching I think that if you currently have W7/W8/W8.1 you can't use the keys directly during a clean install.

Basically what you have to do is do an upgrade on your existing machine, then the hardware info is saved against the activation for W10 so you can then do a wipe and a clean install on the same machine (not entering a key during installation) and it should activate normally after that as it will recognise the machine.

What this doesn't give you is a proper Windows 10 key for future installations on different hardware and it's not clear what hardware changes would lead to a failed re-activation. Plus this doesn't seem like a great process for those who have purchased a Retail version of Windows 7/8/8.1 as those are meant to be able to be moved from machine to machine without issues.

I think this process might be ok just now when people are upgrading existing machines but will lead to issues down the road if MS don't issue a proper license key for W10 for those that are upgrading. Alternatively maybe there is a way to extract the key once you have done the W10 upgrade, but I suspect there will still be activation issues if you change too much hardware or the machine itself.
 
Any word on what the RT update will be?

W8.1 update 3.
September.

Basically early w10 preview start menu, no Cortana and well not much.
Sounds utter **** and don't understand the reasoning. Win 10 rt exists, so why not just throw it pn. Ok technically the display is 2" to big to officially run w10 rt but as they say w10 scales to anything.
The only sensible reason would be if tegra 2/3 and snapdragon would not support w10, but find that highly unlikely with the line up of WP.

Anyway I should be rocking a core M tablet in a few days, so surface 2 can go in the bin.
 
How are people finding battery life on their Surface with Win10? My friend are I are both finding that ours drain quicker with Win10.

I'm trying the update again on Surface Pro 1, first time round there was a process that wasn't shown in Task Manager setting the processor to 100% and there was an error message on driver for the keyboard that flashed up and the 3 and V keys didn't work.

Very strange. Other than that, first impressions are good and the new Mail/News/etc apps are so much faster and nicer to use.
 
The fan is kicking in a lot more, so I would have though the CPU was being taxed, but it's not really doing anything.

I'm noticing that mine is getting warmer than usual despite not doing anything. There's nothing in task manager that seems to be out of the ordinary. The other thing I've noticed is that if I press the button to put it into sleep, the display comes back on automatically after a few seconds which no doubt drains the battery more.
 
I found the battery would run down when switched off but found this fix.

Command prompt : powercfg –devicequery wake_armed

Find the devices it lists in device manager and disable the allow to wake option.
 
W8.1 update 3.
September.

Basically early w10 preview start menu, no Cortana and well not much.
Sounds utter **** and don't understand the reasoning. Win 10 rt exists, so why not just throw it pn. Ok technically the display is 2" to big to officially run w10 rt but as they say w10 scales to anything.
The only sensible reason would be if tegra 2/3 and snapdragon would not support w10, but find that highly unlikely with the line up of WP.

Anyway I should be rocking a core M tablet in a few days, so surface 2 can go in the bin.

If it's going in the bin, send it my way!
 
If it's going in the bin, send it my way!

Pay for postage you have a deal as I can't sell it. It's battered to hell. But still works.
Although need to check Chinese one works fine first, it's now at local sorting office, so I hope they try to deliver Monday. Excited. Should be so much more powerful, being a core M and everything.
 
I'm noticing that mine is getting warmer than usual despite not doing anything. There's nothing in task manager that seems to be out of the ordinary. The other thing I've noticed is that if I press the button to put it into sleep, the display comes back on automatically after a few seconds which no doubt drains the battery more.

Yeah, I'm having similar issues with my Surface Pro 1. Battery goes completely flat overnight if I leave it in sleep.
 
There's also more power savings to come in the first bunch of fixes which is scheduled for start of August. So within the next week or so.
 
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