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Microsoft Windows 10 Free Upgrade : The Last Roundup

Free OR Not ??????

Richard,

I have read many articles about the Windows 10 upgrade and I am still confused about whether it will be free or not. I have read that it will be free for a year....but cannot figure out what will happen after that year.

I have a laptop which came with Windows 8 and I upgraded to Windows 8.1 when it became available.

Have you figured out Free OR Not Free??? Free for lifetime or not???

Thanks much!!!
 
Win10 is a free upgrade for registered owners of Win7, 8, and 8.1. It will include a 1 year subscription of Office 365. After a year, you can re-up for Office or simply migrate to something like Open Office
Jim
 
What he ^ said.

The OS is free for life.

The office365 is for 12 months.
 
Sandy said:
I have an older laptop running Vista. I guess I would have to pay. Anyone know how much? It might be better to get a new laptop.
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I would just get a new laptop. Our old Vista machines are super slow. I would expect them to run even slower on Windows 10.
 
I doubt your Vista machine has the capability to run Win10. Most of those had a GB or less of memory to run on and shared video memory out of that. Most Win8 ones will have 4 or more GB of memory and a gig or more of dedicated video.

It's time for a new computer. You'll be happier in the long run, and you need a new doorstop anyway. Use the Vista one for that.

Jim
 
I loaded it on DH's computer. It took 3 to 4 hours. (Sorry didn't pay attention to time when I started.)

Nancy
 
Did you have to enter the product key for your (old) Win8/8.1? I'm semi concerned as the sticker on the bottom of my 'puter doesn't contain it, and it was upgraded from 8 to 8.1 anyway.

Jim
 
Passepartout said:
Did you have to enter the product key for your (old) Win8/8.1? I'm semi concerned as the sticker on the bottom of my 'puter doesn't contain it, and it was upgraded from 8 to 8.1 anyway.

Jim
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Install keyfinder and get the key you are using.
 
The box which has been in the tray at the bottom of my screen for months enticing me to load Windows 10 isn't there anymore. Its absence is of no concern to me as I plan on sticking with Windows 7 as long as I can. But I do find it interesting that the box is gone.

George
 
Passepartout said:
Did you have to enter the product key for your (old) Win8/8.1? I'm semi concerned as the sticker on the bottom of my 'puter doesn't contain it, and it was upgraded from 8 to 8.1 anyway.

Jim
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I did not need to enter the product key.

Thursday evening I upgraded my Windows 7 machine that I rarely use...I just wanted to play with it a little. I'll probably upgrade my Windows 8 machine in the next week or 2... depending on how I like it. I've already found that some of my addons for Firefox aren't compatible with the new Firefox version for Windows 10.

Supposedly you have 30 days to "easily" revert back to your prior OS as long as you don't do disk cleanup or something like that.
 
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I updated my Windows 8 computer last night. Did not need any key or number, etc. Not sure how long it took.

Nancy
 
FreeIn2010 said:
I did not need to enter the product key.

Thursday evening I upgraded my Windows 7 machine that I rarely use...I just wanted to play with it a little. I'll probably upgrade my Windows 8 machine in the next week or 2... depending on how I like it. I've already found that some of my addons for Firefox aren't compatible with the new Firefox version for Windows 10.

Supposedly you have 30 days to "easily" revert back to your prior OS as long as you don't do disk cleanup or something like that.
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So how is 10 running on your 7 laptop? About the same, slower or faster?

Ron
 
Sandy said:
I have an older laptop running Vista. I guess I would have to pay. Anyone know how much? It might be better to get a new laptop.
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I bought this computer from Best Buy a few months ago and love it.
It has a 15.6" touch screen, plenty of memory for general use and the Intel i3 processor is very fast, much faster than my desktop machine with the Intel Celeron processor. It's a great deal at $400. I'd wait until it comes with Windows 10 installed.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/hp-15-6...rice/3464115.p?id=1219582884490&skuId=3464115
 
RonB said:
So how is 10 running on your 7 laptop? About the same, slower or faster?

Ron
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Remember Windows 10 is actually NT 6.4 and Windows 7 is NT 6.2.

This is much more an iiterative upgrade than a complete new OS. The kernel is the same, just the UI/UX changes.

More boringly this could be called Windows 7 Service Pack 4. Optimization for touch screens, convertible PC's and web 2.0
 
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SMHarman said:
Remember Windows 10 is actually NT 6.4 and Windows 7 is NT 6.2.
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Just between you and me (because nobody else probably cares)... actually it is now on NT 10.0 not 6.4.
 
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Nancy said:
I updated my Windows 8 computer last night. Did not need any key or number, etc. Not sure how long it took.

Nancy
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It took about 45 minutes to download for me, and about another hour to install. I read somewhere in MS documentation that upgrade doesn't require restart, but that was untrue. Restarted many times during the process.

As with any major software install, ensure you have no other applications open when you begin the install.

The only glitch I've see so far is a an error message popping up that an operation failed when I first logged in. Honestly, though, I did nothing but wake up and log on so it could finish the setup and I could see what the desktop looked like.

A) The START BUTTON is back!
B) No more toggling between a funky app desktop and a legacy Windows desktop.
 
RonB said:
So how is 10 running on your 7 laptop? About the same, slower or faster?

Ron
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I haven't yet had the chance to give it a good work over. But it seems more responsive...which is surprising considering the 1.60GHz AMD processor (3+ yr old HP all-in-one, not laptop). I rarely use it because it was too slow for my needs.

After about a year of misery, I moved the HP to the family room and bought a Lenovo all-in-one (Intel processor running Windows 8) for my office. That will be upgraded next.
 
Ty1on said:
It took about 45 minutes to download for me, and about another hour to install. I read somewhere in MS documentation that upgrade doesn't require restart, but that was untrue. Restarted many times during the process.

As with any major software install, ensure you have no other applications open when you begin the install.

The only glitch I've see so far is a an error message popping up that an operation failed when I first logged in. Honestly, though, I did nothing but wake up and log on so it could finish the setup and I could see what the desktop looked like.

A) The START BUTTON is back!
B) No more toggling between a funky app desktop and a legacy Windows desktop.
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I'm installing it on my PC while I type on my iPad and the big blue screen says "Installing Windows 10. Your PC will restart several times. This might take awhile."
 
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