Buying instead of the Free Upgrade of Win10

owensjc said:

Have any of your technet licensed machines shown the "reserve windows 10" icon in the taskbar?
Mine have not, so I'm thinking they may not be eligible for the upgrade.

Kind of sort of. My desktop PC is running Windows 8.1 Pro with a TechNet key, but I also added Media Center. I was able to reserve my upgrade via the notifications ICON.

logicearth said:

Of course the Technet keys are not eligible for the upgrade. Those are for testing! Besides if you have an active Technet account you can get Windows 10 the same way you get every version of Windows on Technet.

But of course Technet Subscription has gone away so one will not be exploiting that any more.

My TechNet and MSDN keys are listed as Retail Keys. Was also able to reserve my upgrade on a PC using a TechNet key, I think anyway. I also added Media Center, not sure if that matters or not.

Anyway, since I have MSDN, I won't be buying Windows 10. I'll get keys when its released anyway, and ISO's to download. If I didn't have MSDN, I likely still wouldn't buy it, I'd go the free upgrade route. I have limited finances which means I go cheap most of the time.

caperjack said:

hope now ones watching since TechNet is now defunct you are suppose to shred those old keys, I got rid of all mine ,no really I did ,honest Officer Bill ,I did ,

in 2009 I got TechNet as part of the MVP program ,and at the time tey were giving 10keys for each version and a one key Multi enterprise version of win7 and Vista

I'm not an MVP nor did I subscribe to TechNet, but I found this about the keys: http://www.zdnet.com/article/five-th...time-runs-out/

I got TechNet and MSDN as part of being a Microsoft MVP. I've done several reinstalls with those keys on my PC's with no issues. Always on the same PC they were originally used on. I went from Windows 8.0 keys to 8.1 keys but now that 8.1 will accept 8.0 keys I went back to those. I'm still testing and still an MVP so I'll keep using them. TechNet is dead but you can still log in to the site. You can't download any files or get new keys but you can look over the keys you have. I can still export my key xml file as a record of what keys I have. Anyway, that's all I'll say on that. I don't want to sidetrack the thread and take it off topic any further.

owensjc said:

Have any of your technet licensed machines shown the "reserve windows 10" icon in the taskbar?
Mine have not, so I'm thinking they may not be eligible for the upgrade.

logicearth said:

Of course the Technet keys are not eligible for the upgrade. Those are for testing! Besides if you have an active Technet account you can get Windows 10 the same way you get every version of Windows on Technet.

But of course Technet Subscription has gone away so one will not be exploiting that any more.

I'm using a copy of WIn8.1 that I got via TechNet and I'm eligible to upgrade to Win10 with that key/license.

caperjack said:

hope now ones watching since TechNet is now defunct you are suppose to shred those old keys, I got rid of all mine ,no really I did ,honest Officer Bill ,I did ,

in 2009 I got TechNet as part of the MVP program ,and at the time tey were giving 10keys for each version and a one key Multi enterprise version of win7 and Vista

Where did you read this?? I'm still using my TechNet copy of Win8.1 and I have no issues with activation and I'm eligible to reserve a copy of Win10.