Windows 10

VincentHanna · 17 Jul 2015 at 11:19

But upgrades are free?

ED209 · 17 Jul 2015 at 11:28

VincentHanna said:
But upgrades are free?

they are free for the first year for users already running windows 7 SP1 and windows 8.1.

Skeeter · 17 Jul 2015 at 11:47

VincentHanna said:
But upgrades are free?

Yes, just like 8 to 8.1. But as ED209 says, they are only £0 for the first year.

King4aDay · 17 Jul 2015 at 13:08

But to clarify, once you have your free upgrade it remains free 'forever'.

MOOGLEYS · 17 Jul 2015 at 13:14

King4aDay said:
But to clarify, once you have your free upgrade it remains free 'forever'.

Yes on the machine that you activated it on.

Trig · 17 Jul 2015 at 13:21

Why are we 163 pages into this thread and the same questions keep coming up....

Vimes · 17 Jul 2015 at 13:25

Can anyone link to either the ESD or a compiled ISO of the 10240 GB x64 Pro....? Sadly I deleted my system files and Windows Ole etc before I backed up the ESD file.

Thanks

Steampunk · 17 Jul 2015 at 13:36

Trig said:
Why are we 163 pages into this thread and the same questions keep coming up....

Because Microsoft have done such a bad and contradictory job of explaining exactly what it is you get. Seems to me they keep changing their corporate mind on the exact terms.

ED209 · 17 Jul 2015 at 13:39

King4aDay said:
But to clarify, once you have your free upgrade it remains free 'forever'.

its free for the life of the device you install your free upgrade on too. so if you change something like mobo and cpu Microsoft will class this as a new system and you will need to either go back to your old OS before you upgraded or buy windows 10

colinmcr · 17 Jul 2015 at 14:24

You only have a month after upgrading to Win10 to rollback apparently.

You can now pre-order it on usb

http://hexus.net/tech/news/software/84758-microsoft-windows-10-usb-flash-drives-now-pre-order/

ED209 · 17 Jul 2015 at 14:43

colinmcr said:
You only have a month after upgrading to Win10 to rollback apparently.

didn't know that, last I read you could go back to a previous os and didn't know there was a time limit.

so if you upgrade to W10 and after your first year you do a hardware upgrade that Microsoft class as a new device the only option you have is to buy a new key for W10 or earlier OS as you can no longer roll back to your original key with 7 or 8.1.

Skeeter · 17 Jul 2015 at 14:55

I call BS on that 1 month thing.

Also no, you wont be stuck as your underlying Windows 7/8.1 license remains untouched, so worst case you will need to reinstall that.

ED209 · 17 Jul 2015 at 15:06

Skeeter said:
Also no, you wont be stuck as your underlying Windows 7/8.1 license remains untouched, so worst case you will need to reinstall that.

that's what I thought it was.

so at the end of the day if you had a hardware change and you had to activate windows again rather than buy a W10 key you could just re install your original OS

colinmcr · 17 Jul 2015 at 15:10

That's pretty much how I read it, I'll see if I can find the article.

See here :- http://www.techradar.com/news/softw...8-1-if-windows-10-isn-t-right-for-you-1299430

Trig · 17 Jul 2015 at 15:12

To be fair I gave up believing anything Techradar wrote months ago...

Skeeter · 17 Jul 2015 at 15:21

ED209 said:
that's what I thought it was.

so at the end of the day if you had a hardware change and you had to activate windows again rather than buy a W10 key you could just re install your original OS

Yes. If you have Retail Windows 7 or 8.1 you can carry on moving that around to different hardware forever. If you upgrade one of those hardware configurations to 10 for free then that won't be transferable, but your 7/8.1 remains as was.

lurkio · 17 Jul 2015 at 15:24

awesome news - updates will be automatic and mandatory (no choice)

Good job Microsoft have never fubared anyones install with dodgy updates .... ever

Skeeter · 17 Jul 2015 at 15:27

lurkio said:
awesome news - updates will be automatic and mandatory (no choice)

Good job Microsoft have never fubared anyones install with dodgy updates .... ever

The Insider Program will mitigate this. All Windows Updates will have been tested on millions of machines before being pushed out to the public.

RavenXXX2 · 17 Jul 2015 at 15:33

Vimes said:
Can anyone link to either the ESD or a compiled ISO of the 10240 GB x64 Pro....? Sadly I deleted my system files and Windows Ole etc before I backed up the ESD file.

Thanks

https://mega.co.nz/#!hwgxjaIb!XIaZ_tgRg1HHDDUfu7DCLzr5f0F3Ounc6WjES85CVgg

There you go.

deuse · 17 Jul 2015 at 15:53

lurkio said:
awesome news - updates will be automatic and mandatory (no choice)
Good job Microsoft have never fubared anyones install with dodgy updates .... ever

It's so MS can say to IT dept\companies "we have tested this update on millions of home PCs before you get it".

I'm sure the EU commission will look into it.