It's MS. You can be 100% sure that they are thinking of a way to f**k you. The free upgrade is just your dinner.
Microsoft has much more to gain from having everyone on the latest version of Windows than it does from a small number of consumer upgrades. They want everyone on the app store, to make it viable and to get a foothold in the mobile market. Most of their Windows revenue comes from business and OEM anyway I am guessing that the terms of the upgrade will be that you give up the W7/8 license and the W10 license will be tied to the machine like an OEM license.
Everything I read here is good for debate. My feeling is : - W7 or W8 is allready free with different tweaks - Is it better to get W10 for free that a pirated one ( pirated should hide malicious hacking tweaks) If you consider the IOS for exemple , Apple has a very efficient mode to lock their OS : by signing the current version and no more signing the old version. They offer for the customer a life update for the ios and applications too : you buy one time each one. Perhaps the future of windows OS should be a similar way...
I heard their giving away windows 10 for free for a year ok then what is the fee for its use after that ? would I be better off keeping win 7 or 8.1 I guess we will have to wait and find out, I don't mind paying one time for an OS !!
After a year, you can keep it and will be updated at no additional cost, MSFT already stated this....
Maybe Microsoft's plan is to offer the upgrade though Windows Update to make it easy for everyone to upgrade, then use strengthened genuine checks to cripple unlicensed copies.
" According to industry experts, use of pirated software, including Non-Genuine Windows, results in a higher risk of malware, fraud (identity theft, credit card theft, etc), public exposure of your personal information, and a higher risk for poor performance or feature malfunctions." This is hilarious
For you maybe, but that's reality. There are tons of cracks out there that aren't even cracks but f**king trojans, malware or other very nasty s**t like that cryptolocker variants that encrypts your s**t with f**king RSA 2048 (pay or lose all your data, it's uncrackable), as advanced PC user you will never find these but you'd be surprised how easily people get malware because they don't even f**king know the difference between a Windows popup and a fake javascript popup on a website... Seriously where do you think people get all that f**king malware and cryptolockers from? Certainly not from facebook.
I won't be installing tablet and metro infested ugly UI on my desktop even if it is free. I got Win 8.1 on some of my systems just reason being that I can use StartIsBack program and use it like classic Win 7 style. I don't like the direction MS is heading and hope their all future OS fail miserably, if they continue the same path.
Well, I suppose I am the luckiest guy on this world. Never got virus, even tho on my laptop and one PC I have pirated version of Windows. Must be something wrong with me. And one more thing. I use also my bank data and credit cards, never stolen, never miss a penny. So you must be right, pirated version is evil
I feel like their main plan is to get their appstore up and running, by essentially giving away windows 10 for free, the target audience for the appstore will grow which would mean more apps for their phones.
Nothing wrong with you... I haven't paid for any Windows version since W98 SE and I've never seen a virus or other problem that was to blame on a non-licenced Windows OS...
Who in their right mind could think that this system is a good one? Forcing people to stick with their version or only use the latest one? And if sth is f**ked up theres no way to restore your working old version? That system is so f**ked up. After dealing with Apple's iOS s**t for one day I was almost ready to fix iPad with a big hammer.
curious about bios modded machines running W7 Ultimate flagged as genuine. Guess these upgrades to W10 will be free