Windows 10 will be a free upgrade for all installations of win7/8/8.1--genuine or not.

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Windows 10 will be a free upgrade for all installations of win7/8/8.1--genuine or not.

Hmm MS is serious then!!

"One OS to rule them all, One OS to find them,
One OS to bring them all and in the darkness bind them"

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Windows 10 will be a free upgrade for all installations of win7/8/8.1--genuine or not.

Hmm MS is serious then!!

"One OS to rule them all, One OS to find them,
One OS to bring them all and in the darkness bind them"

And supposedly 10 is supposed to be ready by this Summer, ready for what? I don't know.

Still My next PC after My replacement PC(a Retail Win 7 Pro install) will be a Windows 10 PC..

The one after that? Who knows..

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Windows 10 will be a free upgrade for all installations of win7/8/8.1--genuine or not.

Given they are moving the OS to a platform for services this makes sense. "Here is our OS, now buy our services."

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Windows 10 will be a free upgrade for all installations of win7/8/8.1--genuine or not.

Given they are moving the OS to a platform for services this makes sense. "Here is our OS, now buy our services."

Still leaves the very curious question: if they are going allow free upgrades, even for previously pirated versions, and most of their money comes from Software Assurance anyway, why not just go the full 10 yards and allow Windows 10 to be installed on fresh, new machines too? The idea for Microsoft here is obviously to reduce support costs for older OSes by giving it away as an upgrade. Certainly those remaining few licenses can't be that lucrative!

Windows 10 will be a free upgrade for all installations of win7/8/8.1--genuine or not.

Given they are moving the OS to a platform for services this makes sense. "Here is our OS, now buy our services."

Still leaves the very curious question: if they are going allow free upgrades, even for previously pirated versions, and most of their money comes from Software Assurance anyway, why not just go the full 10 yards and allow Windows 10 to be installed on fresh, new machines too? The idea for Microsoft here is obviously to reduce support costs for older OSes by giving it away as an upgrade. Certainly those remaining few licenses can't be that lucrative!

Yeah it is like they just can't bring themselves to say "Here it is a $0 to everyone." I think resellers, like HP, Dell, & such, are still going to have pay licensing fees. So it may be related to that.

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Windows 10 will be a free upgrade for all installations of win7/8/8.1--genuine or not.

Given they are moving the OS to a platform for services this makes sense. "Here is our OS, now buy our services."

Still leaves the very curious question: if they are going allow free upgrades, even for previously pirated versions, and most of their money comes from Software Assurance anyway, why not just go the full 10 yards and allow Windows 10 to be installed on fresh, new machines too? The idea for Microsoft here is obviously to reduce support costs for older OSes by giving it away as an upgrade. Certainly those remaining few licenses can't be that lucrative!

Yeah it is like they just can't bring themselves to say "Here it is a $0 to everyone." I think resellers, like HP, Dell, & such, are still going to have pay licensing fees. So it may be related to that.

True, but the licensing fees for OEMs like HP and Dell are built into the cost of the machine itself, and usually at a considerably steep discount than even what builders buy OEM copies for.

So it would really come down to a choice for the user between upgrading the OS for free on existing hardware (a perfectly reasonable option given some people's hardware these days) or replacing older hardware altogether for a nominal cost - but you're getting a faster computer so the cost is easily justifiable for many people.

Well it seems that IE is going to become extinct in the process http://uproxx.com/gammasquad/2015/03/microsoft-officially-brings-an-end-to-internet-explorer/.

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