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Correct.
And, they closed the Insider Program temporarily just before RTM, and then re-opened it. So, "new" people can join now and register new machines for Insider Builds. The only difference now, is that it MUST be an upgrade from a qualifying OS (can't be a clean install), or a purchase of the W10 OS.
Yum! Happy Thanksgiving!
Thanks simrick
One item of note:
I am currently receiving Insider Builds but, seeing as how my firmware is now 'branded', I don't have an expiry date when I open 'winver'.
So I'll keep receiving Insider Builds until the program runs out at which time I'll have to perform a clean install of whatever version is RTM at the time and enter either* key.
*(on this machine only)
What it looks like from screenies is that LifeWulf has been an Insider since July 29 when he upgraded from Windows 8.1 on both of his machines. So, it seems he would qualify according to your statement above.
I'm assuming that he was "offered" to join the Insider Program after the upgrade and he decided to do so. Again, looking at his screenies, I think he's done everything correctly, but so far, no Insider builds have come his way from Microsoft.
I've asked every question I could think of (some of them borderline insulting) and still I can't figure it out.
The only other things I can think of are DISM and sfc /scannow, which I'm not familiar enough with to know what I'm looking at anyway.
Mine looks just like Kari's, with the same expiration date, (a different time though).
Hmmm, I wonder . . . Could it be that LifeWulf got caught up in the space between the Closed Insider Program and Reopening the Insider Program?
I know it sounds far fetched, but stranger things have happened.
@simrick, Hippsie, Edwin, Sgage, etc. Can any of you think of anything I haven't thought of?