http://www.pcworld.com/article/28732...#tk.nl_pcwbest
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Oh boy oh boy oh boy!! I knew if I waited long enough I'd finally get a free Windows upgrade! (I hope 400K of ram is enough though)
https://discussions.virtualdr.com/im.../2015/01/6.jpg
Patience is a virtue. :D :D
Sure is! I'll finally be able to see what a "jpeg" and a "youtube" is. I hear there are lots of cats.
You'll find out a .jpeg is just a litte larger than a wooden peg and yup, there are cats and wombats and rhinenoserusus and good gnus and bad gnus and most anything else ya wanna look at. Yer gonna love it!! I think it's time for my medications.
Wait one year and then you pay.
Bet a clean install will cost $$$$.
Train--
I have read only the PCWorld article. It says "will be able to upgrade to Windows 10 for free for one year after the operating system launches". That suggests the upgrade is good forever as long as you get it in the one year after Win 10 launches.
I read it that way the first time, then got to thinking about Having to do a clean install. . .
We will just have to wait and see.
If it's compatible with my 8.1 ASUS tablet I'll give it a go but I'll wait a couple of months to find out what problems others find first and to let 3rd party software cos catch up.
Train--It's provided as an ISO file that you burn to a DVD--doesn't that solve your clean install problem?
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/preview-iso
If you have a KEY, it does.
I am reading this as it will be upgrade which is a over install right now, you might be able to feed the old dvd in and that will be enough, but at the moment, the jury is still out. . . .
Got caught 200 miles from home last weekend and had to do a clean install of win 7 32bit, downloaded the iso, made the dvd and installed it using the key on the computer, beautiful outcome. With Windows home server, theu gave you the key when you downloaded it a few years back. What they do about the KEY, that is my question.
That's a good point. I've never done an OS upgrade but always prefer a clean install to not carry over any hidden problems to a new set up. I will, as I said above, wait and see what the whole process involves and what others experience first.
Quote from the linked article---"the win10 license is for the life of the computer".
http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/01/...-after-release
But it's still not clear what would happen if you wiped the drive and wanted to clean install 10 because of some unfixable problem down the road. Could you install 10 from scratch with that license or would you need to reinstall the previous OS first then upgrade?
Change hdd because it quit. Then what???
Married to the mob so you can not replace it like OEM?
Lots of questions still unanswered.
I too, prefer clean installs.
You can do a clean install of windows 8.1 even if your computer came with windows 8, I don't see why you wouldn't be able to do that with the windows 10 upgrade.
Win10 Tech review is install on a old Optiplex 755 with 2 GB of ram, runs fine, just had to learn there are very few shortcuts so you need to type in what you want and watch the suggestions list to select what you want. I am a clicker, not a keyboard nut.
Win 10 still has a long way to go to replace Win 7. Microsoft seems to have the idea that a return to the command line is in the future. I had to update a Win 8.1 laptop the other day after the wireless networking WPA2 key was changed, and the window that was supposed to be available to make the change would not appear. Even a link on a pop-up menu that was supposed to make the window appear was greyed out. I had to resort to a command line entry to erase the key from the registry before Windows would ask for it.
Or you could have right click on that network entry and select to forget that network.
I tried the "forget this network" trick, but it didn't work. When attempting to reconnect, it remembered the old, incorrect, passkey.