Windows 10 - free for the first year
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Microsoft have just announced that Windows 10 will be free for the first year of its release for both Windows 8 and Windows 7 users!
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I think they went against Windows 9 as it would cause some problems with backwards compatibility with old Windows 95/98 era software. Hard to believe that there are people still using such old software, but there ya go. Sometimes the old versions are the best
Well it looks decent. Taking the best stuff from win 8 and 7. About time they offered some free upgrades too.
Tried watching the live stream but it kept jumping & buffering every couple of minutes, I hope it will be free for life & not free for 1 year & then charged a subscription for further use as that wont help adoption.
Just waiting for the updated consumer preview build to be released.
No, it's during the first year it's out it will be free to all Windows 7, 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1 users to upgrade too.
Windows 7 users don't have to wait a year, that would be silly.
It would also be silly to then charge a subscription after the first year to everyone who upgraded for free, that would put people off. They're doing this is to encourage everyone to upgrade to Windows 10.
Cheers for clearing that up, I know they were thinking about a subscription model for Windows 10 so it good they are not going that way.
As I mentioned the live stream was jumping about the place so I missed some of what they were saying.
It's mostly a marketing move designed to say "hey, the new new version of Windows isn't just an upgrade to Windows 8, it's a huge upgrade. A whole two numbers different".
Another theory is that they are now numbering in binary so this is Window 2. This will be followed by Windows 11 and Windows 100.
Will let's not jump the gun. When it comes to the subscription based idea after a year, that was just a guess from me that they would not be doing that.
So if they were naming in binary does that mean Windows 8 was Windows 1? God, it feels like the 1980s all over again
I could have stuck with windows 7 and had a free update instead of paying out for 8, ok I did not pay out for it, someone else did, but you know what I mean.
I am happy with 8.1 to be honest, it does what I want, i may download windows 10 just to make my claim on it, but not sure if I would install it.
For all these people who are going to try windows 10, make sure they have made rescue disks from their computers, just in case.
It seems MS are really keen to upgrade everyone to the one platform.
True but like you say it would be a silly idea if suddenly after 1 year Windows pop up a message saying to continue using please subscribe.
I just hope they allow a easy way to upgrade by doing a fresh install instead of over the top, if it is free then I would imagine there would be ISO's available & keys so you can get the Windows 10 version of what you are using, in my case Windows 8.1 x64 pro to Windows 10 x64 pro.
Windows 3.1 i used, but not that much, my mate had a 386 machine with 3.1 on and i mucked about with it, i had a Amiga then. But i never used 1.1. 3.1 was bad enough.
May do, i know people who still uses windows 7 and have said they will not update to 8 or 10 for that matter.. A mate of mine who is into gaming decided to buy windows 8 when we updated his machine as a upgrade to windows 7. Last year he stuck windows 7 back on it.
I also know a lot of XP users, so they will still be using XP unless they buy a new machine.
Also, how many people are going to be bothered to update thie OS for fear that it will go belly up.
Well with the new gaming features coming to Windows 10, he may need to rethink it
In what way? To those who did upgrade during the first year or those who didn't?
For those who did do we get the option to downgrade then or what?
What new gaming features, Do you really think game producers will drop windows 7 and 8 in the next couple of years? I don't.
The one reason he dropped back to 7 was because some of his games was not working as well in 8.