RTM/GA or Insider - What are you going to do?

after waiting nearly a week for the 10162 and trying all sorts to get it via fast ring following advice from forum I got hacked off being ignored lol so as soon as it became available to download I did so burned to iso and fully formatted main drive in dos out of the machine dropped the hard drive into my hot swap bay on my win 7 machine then installed on my quite slow test machine {see My specs} all is well +activated just a few niggles ie reopens when I close it and usb not being allows to be unplugged but apart from that happy days so far

Arc said:

I am an insider, I went to this page, signed in to the windows insider program, downloaded the iso of build 10162 and performed a clean install using it, activated it with the product key provided there. Still I am an insider with fast ring enabled.

To remain as an Insider, it is not a must to upgrade from a legitimate copy of windows 7/8.1, but that is needed to get the free upgrade to RTM and quit the insider program.

This begs the question, in taking the free upgrade, will it still be possible to take part in the insider programme using the same M$ Account?

I like w10 but would not cry if it went away all that glitters is not gold and theirs no such thing as a free lunch time will tell but knowing Microsoft their is an ulterior motive too its exceedingly good cakes strategy

I have two windows 7 boxes that I'm going to go RTM with, but my personal PC and laptop, the ones I use for my day to day banging around the internet, I'm going to stay insider. I love getting advance updates to hack away at before the general public.

dencal said:

This begs the question, in taking the free upgrade, will it still be possible to take part in the insider programme using the same M$ Account?

Wow, that's actually a VERY good question. I'd love to keep going as an insider, but I have a couple of PCs that I had intended to put RTM on. Can we do that? Does anyone know the answer?

dencal said:

This begs the question, in taking the free upgrade, will it still be possible to take part in the insider programme using the same M$ Account?

Yes, it will be possible. Just tell Microsoft you want to keep getting preview builds.

Arfer Daley said:

I like w10 but would not cry if it went away all that glitters is not gold and theirs no such thing as a free lunch time will tell but knowing Microsoft their is an ulterior motive too its exceedingly good cakes strategy

We've been over this before; let's not let it rear its ugly head again. Accusations against Microsoft have no part in this discussion.