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I have heard all 3 of these:

windows 10 is free to upgrade from windows 7/8 If you do it in the first year.

windows 10 will be a free upgrade after 1 year from release.

windows 10 will be a free upgrade FOR a year, after which you need you buy a licence. 

 

In the latest techquickie video linus made it sound like option 3, but i thought it was option 1...

 

can someone clear this up for me?

 

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I have heard all 3 of these:

windows 10 is free to upgrade from windows 7/8 If you do it in the first year.

windows 10 will be a free upgrade after 1 year from release.

windows 10 will be a free upgrade FOR a year, after which you need you buy a licence. 

 

In the latest techquickie video linus made it sound like option 3, but i thought it was option 1...

 

can someone clear this up for me?

According to Microsoft, it is number 1. But we'll have to wait and see to be 100% sure.

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I have heard all 3 of these:

windows 10 is free to upgrade from windows 7/8 If you do it in the first year.

windows 10 will be a free upgrade after 1 year from release.

windows 10 will be a free upgrade FOR a year, after which you need you buy a licence. 

 

In the latest techquickie video linus made it sound like option 3, but i thought it was option 1...

 

can someone clear this up for me?

You have the option to upgrade for up to a year after release and if you get it within that year you don't need to pay for it EVER.

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Im pretty confident is the number one, as you have one year to upgrade for free.

 

I don'T believe it will be free for everyone (who don't allredy own a windows liscence), as it would just be stupid and they would make no money off it. (considering its microsoft that would be a double dumb situation)

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windows 10 is free to upgrade from windows 7/8 If you do it in the first year.

Windows 10 is free for 7/8 owners as long as you update within a year after release.

 

If you update within a year after release, it's yours to keep.

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I don'T believe it will be free for everyone, as it would just be stupid and they would make no money off it. (considering its microsoft that would be a double dumb situation)

Well OSX is free now... so 

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You have the option to upgrade for up to a year after release and if you get it within that year you don't need to pay for it EVER.

so if you do that, does it kind of make your windows 7/8 key a windows 10 one? like lets say, you buy a new motherboard (with windows 10), when you boot up it will ask you to "re-activate" windows. After which you call Microsoft and they reactivate it. But will this work? because its a windows 7/8 key

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Well OSX is free now... so 

no. the upgrade is free. but you can only* put it on apple products so who cares anyway

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Im pretty confident is the number one, as you have one year to upgrade for free.

 

I don'T believe it will be free for everyone, as it would just be stupid and they would make no money off it. (considering its microsoft that would be a double dumb situation)

They are doing this because....

-Windows 8 was a disaster.

-Lots of people wait to upgrade their OS (sometimes over a year, depending on OS).

-They need everyone to have the Windows Store so they can sell software through it and take a cut of the money.

-Makes them look good.

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Option 1

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My question is will they give you a Windows 10 license if you do it within the first year. That way I could do clean installs if needed afterwards.

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so if you do that, does it kind of make your windows 7/8 key a windows 10 one? like lets say, you buy a new motherboard (with windows 10), when you boot up it will ask you to "re-activate" windows. After which you call Microsoft and they reactivate it. But will this work? because its a windows 7/8 key

I think you have to start with legacy and then upgrade.

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They are doing this because....

-Windows 8 was a disaster.

-Lots of people wait to upgrade their OS (sometimes over a year, depending on OS).

-They need everyone to have the Windows Store so they can sell software through it and take a cut of the money.

-Makes them look good.

I ment free for everybody WITHOUT a windows liscence.

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My question is will they give you a Windows 10 license if you do it within the first year. That way I could do clean installs if needed afterwards.

they wont do that i dont think, they want users to BUY a new licence if there building a new system, so a clean install might fall into that catagory

 

I think you have to start with legacy and then upgrade.

explain? do you mean like when your upgrading from 8? or do you mean when your reactivating windows?

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they wont do that i dont think, they want users to BUY a new licence if there building a new system, so a clean install might fall into that catagory

explain? do you mean like when your upgrading from 8? or do you mean when your reactivating windows?

I think that you will have to upgrade to get W10 and buying a new license will still cost money. As for the activation I think it will assume you entered a key for legacy versions and it will generate a new key and not ask for you to enter a key.
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Does it include 64bit Windows 10

 

I have 64bit 7 and 8.1, can I get a free upgrade to 64bit 10?

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Does it include 64bit Windows 10

 

I have 64bit 7 and 8.1, can I get a free upgrade to 64bit 10?

Yes. 32-bit Windows 10 is there for system running 32-bit only CPUs. Intel sadly made a few Atoms that were 32-bit only. So Microsoft being master of supporting the oldest things (well they do their best), continues with Windows 10 being offered in 32-bit flavor. It's also for legacy devices where 64-bit drivers don't exists. This is important for companies with old equipments. But the focus is 64-bit Windows.
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