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Most of what I've seen, Mike, is wishful thinking on the upgrade extension. Not that it would bother me one way or the other, since since this dual boot system has been upgraded from Windows 8.1 Pro to Windows 10 Pro and has Build 14257 on the second partition.
BTW, it seems I got lucky and hit the "loophole" that doesn't require me to have a prior Win 7 or 8.1 in order to install Windows 10 Pro on this machine; however, I'm one of those who just has to be squeaky clean (or I just know someone will catch me), so I used my 8.1 Pro to upgrade to Win 10 Pro.
If you have been an insider and have stopped at builds 10240 or 10586, your digital entitlement would seem to be secure, but what if you have upgraded past these to an insider build with a time limited license that has expired, or your insider build is short of 10240, and expired - does your one time digital entitlement still exist? Will it exist past July 30 2016?
It's my understanding that once you've upgraded from Windows 7 or 8.1, your computer will always be "digitally entitled". I would think that all you'd have to do is reinstall from Build 10586 (media creation tool?) and you'd be good to go.
IIRC, we're told that if we stop being Insiders, we will need to uninstall any Insider builds.
I've no plans to stop Insidering, just not on my main daily machine. Talking about Defender, earlier today, it decided, unbeknownst to me, that Word was infected with a trojan, and gave its peremptory notification: Found some Malware - Windows Defender is removing it. I couldn't find any mention of this in Defender, but then it dawned on me... ...where did Word go with the document I was working on, and when I could not find it in the Office folder, only then did I get a second notification, exactly the same as the first. Only then in Defender, could I trace a quarantined file, and restore it - Word of course! - and it's been running ever since with no squeak of it's malign intentions. I may just go back to Baidu Antivirus - at least it gives you the chance to quarantine or remove the offender before it tells you that your wife is a witch and she was burned at dawn. Normally I wouldn't mind that, but it's much nicer to be asked first.