Windows 10 upgrade will not be free after one year

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 05/20/2015 08:01 AM | source: | 26 comment(s)

Microsoft is saying is that if you want the free upgrade you need to do it in the first year. After that time you will need to buy the upgrade just like you had to do with every other version of windows. Previous upgrades were around $99 to $129 (depending on version) and I imagine this will continue to be the case.

Microsoft has been heavily promoting the fact that Windows 10 will be a free upgrade for consumers running Windows 7, 8 or Phone 8.1 when the OS is released later this year. While the company is clearly pushing this 'free upgrade' announcement to make sure they can hit their 1 billion users benchmark, ina post on the company's Australian Partner Network, they explicitly state that the free upgrade offer will expire after one year.

Microsoft will offer a free upgrade to Windows 10 for qualified Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8.1 devices in the first year. After the first year, upgrades will be paid via boxed product and VL Upgrades.

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Denial
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#5076082 Posted on: 05/20/2015 02:10 PM

As Jim Sterling would have said .. M$ will go after ALL THE MONEY rather then some money. Remind you of something ?

Yeah, every other company.

cowie
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#5076089 Posted on: 05/20/2015 02:16 PM

I hate 8.1 so I guess it wont hurt to upgrade to w10...they think my pc is a phone?

slyphnier
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#5076100 Posted on: 05/20/2015 02:25 PM

i think everyone even the stupid person can see that microsoft trying to push windows10 usage
which first year user base/adoption rate = success rate
first year is more important to create impression how success a product is

its no brainer for windows8.1 user to not upgrade to win10
afterall they used to metroui, 10should even better
what is interesting how far this grab win7 user to move to win10

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#5076139 Posted on: 05/20/2015 03:00 PM

Those 100~150 Euro versions are OEM, that means one PC and if you trash it, you should not reuse that OS on 2nd PC. It is M$ benevolence/error if they allow you to activate it 2nd time.

Transferable license is 250+ Euro.

They have never enforced that 100% except o/s from oems like Dell,HP etc most of the time it's been fine if you bought an oem license and installed it on upgraded hardware as you went along.They were more concerned about not using it on more than one machine at a time.New features and better memory management etc. has been the driving force behind buying a new copy of windows up until now and I don't see that changing anytime soon.

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#5076168 Posted on: 05/20/2015 03:43 PM

I just hope we'll be able to download the Windows 10 ISO separately and use our legitimate Win7/8.x key to install it directly

Unless there's a catch Microsoft haven't told us about, the only thing making me hesitant to upgrade directly is that I'll have to format everything YET AGAIN.

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