Tks urie, what I meant was I wished to post the evidence because some guy in that thread said the blog has not been edited. Anyway, what I guess is Gabe was just clarifying something I had mentioned earlier, you stay as Insider, you have an activated RTM, but it would be replaced (soon) by another Preview build, if you choose to hold on to RTM, then you are no longer in the Insider Program, and need to activate your RTM copy.
that guy was me.. post date was 19th didn't see any " evidence" of gabe editing it but can be wrong anyway I have posted there or original link to blog
Couldn't see why all that fuss about MS editing Gabe's blog, they didn't "backtrack" or "changed mind", they just made the blog "legally correct". I have pointed out the importance about Gabe's mentioning about the "Insider Agreement", and his reply to Tom Warren that people need to be "a registered Insider" to "stay activated". It's simple, if you upgrade to RTM as Insider, you get an activated RTM, if you want to stay in RTM, you'll need to opt out of Insider Program, then your copy couldn't "stay activated", if you stay in the Program, per Agreement your RTM will be replaced by mandatory WU in the next Preview release. If some media people mis-interpretated the process and bragged(incorrectly) about Insiders will have a free and activated Win10RTM to keep forever, it's their own fault, and has no reason to blame MS for backtracking.
had a big headache yesterday and today. some people thought they had to sign up for the windows insiders to get it free even though they already had window 10 reserved setup on their machine.
Yep, exactly. For Insiders, RTM is going to be just another build that will be replaced as soon as the next mandatory update/build is released. You get Windows 10 for free, but you'll be bound to the rules of the Insider Agreement (which incorporates kind of a pre-release/preview license).
That's the point, Preview builds need to be activated for testers to try out all the features, but Preview builds have a time-bomb, RTM builds could not have a time-bomb, so the mandatory update to the next Preview build acts as a time-bomb.
Windows Insiders will continue to receive future flights as we begin to work on the next release immediately after Windows 10 ships. You’ll get to see the latest Windows fixes, features, and updates and give us feedback. So stay with us! Of course, we’ll provide you an option to leave the program and stay on the final build if you choose: but we hope that we’ll continue to provide you great reasons to remain a Windows Insider. Here you have your official confirmation.
Yup, this part everybody already knows, but the big question was "if you left the program, will the RTM stay activated?" Gabe finally made up his mind and updated his blog, and it simply was the same thing I had been saying from the very start. People had been making their wild guesses and fantasies in other threads, but it's not my concern. Also yesterday I read in various sites some funny thing about "activation but no license", Windows is a copyright article, when you activate, it means MS agrees you use their copyright article and it always comes with a license by copyright law stipulating your rights and restrictions, no idea how people could have got this funny idea.
So, the RTM is like the final like or? Because I want to use Windows 10 but I will wait til RTM will be released. I dont want to do an second clean install becuase something works bad because I updated from a preview. With the Upgrade Option it runs very bad. The RTM, will it be released this month?
I've heard another rumor that RTM could be build 12000, although it's quite "fantastic", but 12000 is a multiple of 16 and 100 ........ maybe MS wanted to tell people that "Win10 is twice as good as Vista(build 6000)"?