Reply to post: Free upgrade timeout?

Windows 10 will now automatically download and install on PCs

David Roberts
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Free upgrade timeout?

The upgrade is "free" for a year.

However you can apparently download the ISO.

So what will prevent you from using the ISO after more than a year?

Licence activation?

Just checking because I am resisting upgrading because I don't like being pushed but I am ancient enough to remember similar comments about "out of my cold dead hands" each time a new version of Windows surfaces.

Two or three years down the line there will still be the vociferous deniers but they will be nothing more than background noise on a few tech sites (sorry guys) and most of the world will be on W10.

Microsoft know this which is why (I assume) that they couldn't really give a shit about any bad publicity because getting the herd onto W10 will avoid the problems they had through not forcing people off XP.

The gains from having everyone on the same OS and not having to support several versions are so large that pissing techies off for a couple of years, and losing a fraction of 1% of systems to Mint, aren't really an issue.

Anyway, question is, can I reserve a free update now for use later?

Icon -> for the biggest hat I could see to ward off the incoming shower of shit........

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