Windows 10 Free upgrade for one year

[DrPop]

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!

[Mumps]

Actually, this first came up when Win 8 was coming out. They had the same requirement, except that it was allowed to be disabled. (After public uproar against it.) Linux Distros came up with ways to provide boot code that had a suitable signature to let it work. This article implies that approach may still work if Mfg's don't allow you to disable UEFI.

http://arstechnica.com/information-t...out-a-reality/

This doesn't cut out Linux entirely—there have been some collaborations to provide Linux boot software with the "right" set of signatures, and these should continue to work—but it will make it a lot less easy.

[Sarge104]

How would you like your system to restart every so often without warning....oh, wait, Windows update already does that...

[c303a]

How would you like your system to restart every so often without warning....oh, wait, Windows update already does that...

You can turn off auto updates. If you are running the Win 10 preview there have been a couple of new builds lately and that will restart the computer. (10049,10051 and 10061) I have the updates set to ask me about the updates and it works fine.

[Sarge104]

c303a,

Snark was completely intended, despite being a windows user myself...

[c303a]

c303a,

Snark was completely intended, despite being a windows user myself...

I missed that one. Must be old age creeping in. O wait, it isn't creeping in it's here already!

[shiva]

ok all you computer geeks, is it a go on the win 10 upgrade. I'm getting notices from windows about the free upgrade. got about 5 now. my thoughts are if you get a full version free then they will force you to it sooner or later, might just as well get it free. well maybe free

[c303a]

I'm still getting updates for the preview. I'm up yo 10130 now and according to the Technet, a lot of people are having problems installing this update. The computer goes into a constant reboot, repair your computer, reboot loop and you can't get it to boot. I'd hold off on the updates even though they are supposed to be free.

[DrPop]

Shiva, I would wait just a little bit longer. Give them a few more weeks, I think by end of June / July they will have most of the kinks worked out. You're right, it's coming so might as well get it ... eventually. I'd let a few more thousand folks be the beta testers first though!

[shiva]

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.