Windows 10

Yeah. Most people here forget that building your own machine puts you in the minority. Most 'devices' that will get W10 wont have a visible key (all pre built PCs, almost all laptops, every tablet and mobile).

Thats what MS talk about when they say 'life of the device', as for most devices they key and the device are the same thing.
 
Yep I expect so. They will probably stagger the release too.

Every Windows 7 and 8 PC in the world hitting their servers at the same time would DDoS them :p
 
Hmm.. 2 of the 4 CD keys I am going to upgrade are currently not installed on anything.

Has anyone had the little icon appear while running the W10 preview (I would assume this would be those who applied the preview through Windows Update, meaning their CD key from the previous version is still under the hood)?
 
A couple of questions:

1) if i upgrade to Win10 from win7 i assume that this invalidates my win7 license completely - so if for some reason i don't like win 10 i couldn't go back to win 7 anyway?

2) if i buy a new license for a new build my understanding is that it is only valid for the lifetime of the device - so i have to buy a new version for every new PC or worse still after say just a mobo/cpu upgrade? Any idea how all this will work in practice?

Thanks
 
Diss said:
A couple of questions:

1) if i upgrade to Win10 from win7 i assume that this invalidates my win7 license completely - so if for some reason i don't like win 10 i couldn't go back to win 7 anyway?
u can rollback

2) if i buy a new license for a new build my understanding is that it is only valid for the lifetime of the device - so i have to buy a new version for every new PC or worse still after say just a mobo/cpu upgrade? Any idea how all this will work in practice?
no i think it's like win8/8.1 oem license u can transfer it...

Thanks
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I'm not too sure I'm that keen tbh, I didn't realise it was an automatic update...

What if your current 7/8 install is a bit flaky, the 10 install will inherit all of that won't it :(

I'd much prefer to do a fresh install.
 
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Glaucus said:
Anyone knows what's going to happen to us who have installed w10 preview.
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im guessing

if you've upgraded from win7/8.1 to win10 preview then it should just update to rtm.

if u installed win10 preview via iso then i guess after update to rtm it'll ask for a product key or when the win10 preview license ends
 
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That's a point, when I last ran my 10 preview (VM Player) there was a massive update installed. I'm signed in with the Microsoft account that I'll be wanting to use on the full version, the shouldn't be any conflicts of license or anything should there?

I'll be deleting my preview install soon.
 
slipd said:
I'm not too sure I'm that keen tbh, I didn't realise is was an automatic update...

What if your current 7/8 install is a bit flaky, the 10 install will inherit all of that won't it :(

I'd much prefer to do a fresh install.
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This is the thing i'm most curious about now. Will there be compatibility issues with existing software, and how will it handle drivers? I can't imagine an update like this not completely breaking my PC to be honest.
 
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