Microsoft Announces Windows 10 Will Be Free Upgrade

I have always been an early adopter when it comes to Operating systems. I have been using Microsoft OS's since they were making them for IBM back in the DOS days when it came on five and quarter inch floppy's. I have run every iteration since DOS-3, (4 was flaky but 5 was great!) I Beta tested Vista and stayed with XP, tested 7 and thought it a good replacement for XP. Tested 8 and happily told anyone that would listen that Win7 would be the last MS operating system I would ever use, turning to Linux full time.

I have been running Win10 since they released the technical preview. What I can say is that it good heck even "Metro" apps make sense on the desktop with Win10! From what I have seen to date it's a no brainer for any Windows user to upgrade to.

For the first time in around 10 years none of my computers are running Linux and that's something I would not have imagined as little as 12 months ago. Heck I may have been drinking too much of the MS coo-lade as I'm now looking at a Windows Phone as a replacement for my old Samsung! Even the new HP Stream tablet is looking good right now as a replacement for my slow Nexus 7 tablet.

I know that sometimes I can get a little over enthusiastic about tech. I can have my head turned by a new shiny toy to play with. Right now I can think of some good arguments that suggest MS might be on the right track. Ten years lost in the wilderness, the lumbering old dinosaur has changed direction and is gathering momentum.
 
We were discussing if you could clean install an update package of the OS. With Windows 8(.1) you could, so I'm guessing it'll be similar with W10.

You just start the install, go custom, format the HDD, then install W10 to it. After that all it takes is a little registry edit and it'll be activated and you'll have a clean install. Afaik this is completely legal, they just don't really want you to do it this way :p
 
We were discussing if you could clean install an update package of the OS. With Windows 8(.1) you could, so I'm guessing it'll be similar with W10.

You just start the install, go custom, format the HDD, then install W10 to it. After that all it takes is a little registry edit and it'll be activated and you'll have a clean install. Afaik this is completely legal, they just don't really want you to do it this way :p

Ah ok now I see. So then mine as well get the cheaper version(upgrade version) then install it like a new.
 
That's what I did with my Windows 8 Pro copy :p

Just make sure you get the CD version and not just the keycode.

Oh well yeah! ^_^

I'm running W7. No point in upgrading for me. I'd rather wait till W10. I'll probably upgrade my moms old laptop first to see if it's worth getting. It's running W7 but it was one of the early computers that had it with a very basic i3. If it seems ok on their i'll upgrade everything else swiftly.
 
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