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?
It's not the love of a hero, that's why I fear it won't do
Chad Kroeger
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.
RETIRED. NO JOB. NO MONEY. NO WORRIES!
Crunched SETI Classic to the end.
SETI@home classic workunits
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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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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.Originally Posted by shiva
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...
It's not the love of a hero, that's why I fear it won't do
Chad Kroeger
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.
I'm kinda curious if my upgrade key for win 7 that I purchased originally with my tower would work for this. I was unable to use it due to the fact when I purchased it I didn't know I had to use it within 6 months...guess who came off deployment and got stuck using Vista till the team stepped in...lol
It's not the love of a hero, that's why I fear it won't do
Chad Kroeger
be worth a try.
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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