Yeah that was motivation for ordering this system / parts now to avoid the cost of a full Windows 10 license.
Personally I think it is crazy that they are going to charge US$119 for a Windows 10 license from July 30. Why not just make it $50?
I have done about 20 upgrades from 7 or 8.1 for friends and family since the Win 10 launch last year. Will be sad to see that business go.
That's been the price of all recent Windows versions, in terms of being full retail.
I think that you are right these days!
When Windows 8 Pro came out I got two update keys which I used for clean installs. However when I tried to do a new clean install, the update key I used would not work. The error message said I had to do an update. To get the W8 Pro key to work I first had to install a retail copy of Windows 7. The tricky bit was that Windows 7 did not contain any drivers for the Ethernet and USB ports on my new motherboard, and I don't have a DVD drive. Once I had Windows 7 and then W8.1 Pro activated I was able to upgrade to Windows 10 Pro, and once that was activated I could then do clean installs of W10 Pro 32 and 64 bit versions.It is an actual Windows 8 Pro Upgrade key designed to upgrade from Windows 7 (and maybe from Vista?). It isn't just to upgrade from 8 to 8 Pro.
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