Win10 upgrade and a retail purchase of Win10 Pro- not the same.

I am really disappointed. I have an older laptop that had Windows 7 on it and no key for any version of windows stored in bios. I purchased an upgrade to Windows 8 Pro, then got the free upgrade to Windows 8.1 Pro. I upgraded to Windows 10 Pro for free. Then, because I like to have a clean system, I deleted all the partitions on the hard drive, booted from a DVD made from the Windows 10 upgrade ISO, and did a clean install. SLMGR /DLV shows a Windows Pro Edition, RETAIL channel and SLMGR /XPR shows an activated Windows Pro with a permanent activation and system information under control panel says Windows 10 Pro. Now, according to Mr. Pombrio in the OP, I only have "an update patch on top of Windows 8.1 to make it look like Win10. Lets call it Win8.1++. "

Mr. Pombrio, can you please tell me what I would gain if I purchased a retail license for Windows 10 Pro?

quoted from windows 10 blog from microsoft themselves you can see thee whole blog here. Introducing Windows 10 Editions | Blogging Windows Notice it says full version not a patch to make it look like it is it.

As we announced earlier this year, for the first time ever, we are offering the full versions of Windows 10 Home, Windows 10 Mobile and Windows 10 Pro as a free and easy upgrade for qualifying Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1 devices that upgrade in the first year after launch.**Once you upgrade, you have Windows 10 for free on that device.

John Pombrio said:

The confusion that most people are having is what they are getting with the Win10 upgrade. Too many people are assuming that MS is giving away free copies of retail Windows 10. That is simply not the case. MS is letting Win8.1 users patch their Win8.1 computer to make it run a a copy of Win10 with very limited rights. If you want all the rights that a retail version has, you need to BUY a copy of the full retail Win10 Pro product. Don't confuse the two, they are completely different in what you can do with them. From another of my posts:

Think of the Win10 upgrade as simply an update patch on top of Windows 8.1 to make it look like Win10. Lets call it Win8.1++. Don't think of it as a completely new install of Win10 because it isn't! It only has a generic product key and it does not have a way of doing a clean install by just using a Win7/Win 8.1 product key on a new computer. You do have the ability to do a clean install of Win10 on the upgraded computer, but only on that upgraded computer. Like any other retail copy of Win8.1 that you want to move to a new computer, you first have to do a clean install of Win8.1 then run updates on it including the one to make it LOOK LIKE Win10 (Win8.1++). Of course, you need to wipe the old copy of Win8.1++ off of the original machine as well. Simple enough. Oh, and you only have a year to play with it before the win10 update patch for Win8.1 that turns it into Win8.1++ goes away so no more transfers to a new computer after that (unless MS once again changes the rules or make exceptions).

If you want a real, complete retail version of Windows 10 with all its rights and privileges including the ability for a clean install on a new computer, then you have to buy Windows 10 Pro for $199 which will give you a unique, valid Windows 10 product key.

Can you please tell us exactly which are the features that are not available to us Windows 8.1++ users?

To be honest I fin your entire post hard to believe unless I find some kind of a conformation.

Tonyb said:

quoted from windows 10 blog from microsoft themselves you can see thee whole blog here. Introducing Windows 10 Editions | Blogging Windows Notice it says full version not a patch to make it look like it is it.

As we announced earlier this year, for the first time ever, we are offering the full versions of Windows 10 Home, Windows 10 Mobile and Windows 10 Pro as a free and easy upgrade for qualifying Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1 devices that upgrade in the first year after launch.**Once you upgrade, you have Windows 10 for free on that device.

As i said here we have the full version i wo0uld belive MS over anyone else myself.

Tonyb said:

As i said here we have the full version i wo0uld belive MS over anyone else myself.

We are just trying to get the OP to substantiate his statements (which he won't be a able to do because they are completely erroneous) or at least admit that he was completely wrong.

NavyLCDR said:

We are just trying to get the OP to substantiate his statements (which he won't be a able to do because they are completely erroneous) or at least admit that he was completely wrong.

Yes i agree unless he can bring out fact which i doubt he can , microsoft own blog says we all have the full version of win 10 when we get it, therefore it would be taking MS to tell us we have 8+++ which we do not we all have win 10 and that's what it is.