Free upgrade to Windows 10 expires at 29th July 2016. Afterwards, will we resort to KMS activation or will there still be permanent one like digital entitlement from free upgrade?
What if after July 29th. All traces of windows 10 upgrade notifications and auto downloads are removed from non 10 PC. but the mechanism for digital entitlement is still in place?
If Win 10 has been on computer, you have HWID, you can install Win 10 whenever you wish just so long as it is same compuer and have not changed motherboard.
Yes yes i know everyone once we have upgraded from activated 7. the pc will always have 10 till it is obsolete unless you change motherboard. what i was saying is that if people still manually upgrade after free upgrade is over. maybe they will get hwid permanent activation still? garlane00 are you sure we can upgrade after free upgrade is over and still get digital entitlement?
Nobody is for sure I think at the moment don't be afraid there are many ways to activate @ this and that moment when free upgrade will end
Assuming you upgrade and get the Digital Entitlement (DE) prior to June 29, that DE on that computer will still be valid after June 29. You don't lose what you already have on June 29, you just can no longer get the DE on a previously not-upgraded computer after June 29. The Microsoft program goes away, not the local computer's DE. Easy Peasy ...
I guess you will be able to buy a DE on the Store, even after that date. Just the free one will be gone. Somehow I still doubt they will end the campaign on that date...
If your computer already has an entitlement when free upgrade runs out (because you reserved it) you get free upgrade still. If it does not have an entitlement, and you upgrade after then, it will be non genuine and MS will sell you an entitlement, possibly at a cheap price. How much you pay for said entitlement will determine if it's transferable. simple, no?
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