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    Exclamation Windows 10 Free upgrade for one year

    Win 10 for free news!

    Includes upgrades from Windows 8.1 and Windows 7, along with smartphones running Windows Phone 8.1. Thought I would bounce this off the board to see how people trying out the Beta version think of the new system and if it's worth the update?
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    Re: Windows 10 Free upgrade for one year

    I have been running the Technical Preview since it came out and have not had any problems. The only thing is that you have to do a custom install and go through and turn off all of M$'s "spyware." Other then that it works great and I really like the start button. I currently have it on my new build which is an Asus Sabertooth H97 Mark 2 with a Intel 4790K running a 4.4ghz.

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    Re: Windows 10 Free upgrade for one year

    Looks like as it stands, Win10 will prevent anyone from making a dualboot system with Linux (or anything other than another Windows flavor). They're leaving it up to the OEM to decide if they're going to go through the trouble of allowing users to disable it, at least on desktops. On laptops you're just out of luck.
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    Re: Windows 10 Free upgrade for one year

    Quote Originally Posted by John P. Myers View Post
    Looks like as it stands, Win10 will prevent anyone from making a dualboot system with Linux (or anything other than another Windows flavor). They're leaving it up to the OEM to decide if they're going to go through the trouble of allowing users to disable it, at least on desktops. On laptops you're just out of luck.
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    And now you have another reason to never buy a prebuilt system


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    Re: Windows 10 Free upgrade for one year

    Quote Originally Posted by Fire$torm View Post
    And now you have another reason to never buy a prebuilt system
    that means I have to learn a new os, not likely. i know it is easy, after you know it.
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    Re: Windows 10 Free upgrade for one year

    well one thing for sure, if you guys think you need to wait the I damn sure need to. will hold on stand by for now.
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    Re: Windows 10 Free upgrade for one year

    Quote Originally Posted by Fire$torm View Post
    And now you have another reason to never buy a prebuilt system
    Do you think MS is trying to "make" it difficult to install any other OS on purpose, or is that just a side effect, and this is all to make boot time faster for the average Joe? Because we have to remember that the VAST majority of these computers will never see anything but Windows OS on them. Although I wouldn't put it past MS to make switching OSes harder than it needs to be!

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    Re: Windows 10 Free upgrade for one year

    A question on this, if I do the free upgrade to win 10 on my win 7 and 8 machines can I then take my old win 7 and 8 upgrade software and upgrade my vista and xp boxes to 7 or 8 and then upgrade them to win 10?
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    Re: Windows 10 Free upgrade for one year

    Quote Originally Posted by shiva View Post
    A question on this, if I do the free upgrade to win 10 on my win 7 and 8 machines can I then take my old win 7 and 8 upgrade software and upgrade my vista and xp boxes to 7 or 8 and then upgrade them to win 10?
    From what I've read online the free upgrade process takes place through windows update. This presumes the update software would then check your windows key to verify it to be genuine. Unless you have multiple genuine keys I doubt you will be able to use the same keys to update multiple units.

    I've also seen that business/enterprise users might be pretty bummed to be left out as well, I don't know how they would block those multi-use keys though...
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    Re: Windows 10 Free upgrade for one year

    well That would be the answer I was expecting. but what the heck worth a try. I do have a corp version of xp guess it isn't worth much anymore.
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