Windows 10

Glaucus · 20 Jun 2015 at 18:23

I would, even if it's dual booting with current OS and use 3 different Microsoft accounts. Worst case is you wasted a few hours and back to how you are now.

It's lookin more likely it is indeed free and no license required. If it is the case, remember you need to be signed up to the insider program, go to the Microsoft site and enrol. and your Microsoft account needs to be activated in windows 10.

Even more news sites talking about it now.

http://microsoft-news.com/windows-insider-preview-users-can-upgrade-to-windows-10-rtm-for-free/

Edit - how come you need more licenses anyway? Or are you still running lots n XP.

Glaucus · 20 Jun 2015 at 19:01

I don't have a clue about MBA.

The question was asked on twitter about multiple computers on same account and no reply, so we don't know. However Gabriel did reply that it was locked to that pc and not transferable.

Like all off this we don't relay know. It's so all unclear, they really need some communication training or policies.

I wonder if they accidentally revealed it to early. They could just switch of preview registration till release. That's assuming what's been said is accurate.

More on twitter

Glaucus · 20 Jun 2015 at 20:24

No VM wont work, as per the tweet conversation I posted.

Glaucus · 20 Jun 2015 at 20:49

dogmanstaruk said:
Thining about trying out Windows 10 now.

I've been an insider for a while, but reverted back to Windows 7. How is it for gaming now? I understand Nvidia have released drivers.

Only for new graphics cards. 600s , 700s and 900s
I'm finding it terrible on 10130. Massive stutters and generally slow.

Glaucus · 20 Jun 2015 at 22:03

It's only an issue with that build, gaming in w10 will be absolutely fine. It more than likely wither a bug or broke something in the w8 drivers. I'm running an older 500 series gfx card so no official w10 drivers.

Glaucus · 21 Jun 2015 at 13:39

randal said:
Presumably everyone has seen this:

http://www.maximumpc.com/how-to-get-windows-10-for-free/

So is it looking like that key won't be transferable? i.e if I stick it on a VM now I won't be able to install it on my machine natively?

Gabriel has already tweeted ages ago it's not transferable, they aren't going to give a retail key out totally free.

Glaucus · 21 Jun 2015 at 14:00

Buckster said:
so ok - within the first 12 months - I assume that means you can

upgrade from retail 8.1 Pro to 10 Pro

if you upgrade - roll back to 8.1

transfer your retail licence 8.1 to new machine

than upgrade that machine 8.1 to 10 ?

Or far more likely just swap w10 to the new machine.

Glaucus · 21 Jun 2015 at 14:23

May but unlikely.

And by someone whos been panicking for months.

Glaucus · 21 Jun 2015 at 20:17

And yet, he's still posting the opposite on twitter
Good old Zac from WinBeta asking the question.

Glaucus · 21 Jun 2015 at 21:31

I'm going with we can upgrade as that's still what he's saying in twitter.

http://www.winbeta.org/news/microso...nsiders?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

So in essence, Microsoft is turning a blind eye to Insiders looking for an activated, free copy of the Windows 10 RTM, however their public message will continue to be 'You need a valid Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 license to upgrade.' This is great news for those who installed the preview over their old Windows installs, so you will not need to downgrade before upgrading to Windows 10. Hooray!

Glaucus · 22 Jun 2015 at 14:28

Gman said:
Anyone know if its going to be possible to download the iso and do a clean install or have we got to reinstall windows 8/8.1 then use the windows update service?

The first time, you have to do the update. After that you can clean install.

Glaucus · 22 Jun 2015 at 16:02

Basically what ever you are running, you upgrade to w10 RTM
Then you can clean install.

Be it w7, w8.1, w10 TP from an upgrade, or W10 TP from a clean install.

Glaucus · 22 Jun 2015 at 16:25

wahoo window 10 drivers for lower end nvidia gfx cards

laptop just notified me (nvidia experience program thing) , and downloading.

not showing on the nvidia download page yet.

Hope this solves my issues

Glaucus · 26 Jun 2015 at 09:38

andicole0 said:
Although that does work it does infringe the license agreement doesn't it?

Andi.

Technically it's tied to the mobo, although most of the time it's easy to activate. which is all most people care about.

Glaucus · 27 Jun 2015 at 11:12

It isn't mismatched anyway, other than the few places they haven't updated to the new UI yet, which is being done.

Glaucus · 27 Jun 2015 at 15:47

Brenn47 said:
When MS said all Preview members would get the full version, out came the old same Vista laptop and I stuck on preview. Week later MS decided only FULL activated versions of W7 SP1 and W8.1 will get W10 for free, I soon realised I was now stuck on W10 preview for life ... then they announced the preview will expire in October 2015.

Bit of a dilemma ... tried to use Recovery to revert back to Vista, nope, can't do it.

So I bought a DVD & licence off ebay for 23 quid (DELL OEM) ... disk didn't work and they never mentioned it was OEM, so downloaded the retail ISO from a Digitalriver clone repository, created a bootable USB, and installed Windows 7 Pro .. activated online using the key I bought, MS accepted they product key, I'm good to go on the 29th with Windows 10!

If your running XP or Vista, I'd say do it! But DON'T stick the preview on first!!!!

MS have taken their Vista & XP ISOs offline, so I didn't really have a choice, and I didn't want to stick with the preview with it reporting everything back to Microsoft.

Should have stayed on win10 preview and stayed licensed forever.

Glaucus · 30 Jun 2015 at 01:04

Yay tablet mode, seems much improved.

Glaucus · 30 Jun 2015 at 10:14

Your running a leaked build and wonder why you have issues.

Glaucus · 30 Jun 2015 at 23:55

About the only UI I don't understand is the circle picture. Everything else is squares/tiles/rectangles.

Glaucus · 11 Jul 2015 at 17:57

Went wrong today, wouldn't boot. However the built in refresh option did work.
So that's a promising sign, as I haven't had much success with that on past windows.

Bit odd it wouldn't activate had to Google a serial key and put it in before it would activate. Even though it had a valid key, or at least the last few visible characters matched online serials.