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My suspicion is that it will be turned off shortly....
Free Windows 10 Upgrade for assistive technologies ends Jan. 16, 2018 (post #23)
My suspicion is that it will be turned off shortly....
Free Windows 10 Upgrade for assistive technologies ends Jan. 16, 2018 (post #23)
On the 19/01/2018 I managed to generate a genuine ticket .xml on a Windows 7 OEM SLP install on hardware never touched by anything Windows 10 and perform an upgrade install without any issues suggesting that all activation mechanisms still work.
I did the free upgrade from a Windows 8.1 Pro to Windows 10 Pro yesterday with no problem. Activated okay.
That's encouraging news. Maybe it won't get turned off. But as it took a few weeks for the assistive technologies 'Dec 31st' deadline to be acted on, first being postponed to 16th Jan. maybe it's just a matter of time.
I've just got the one machine I can test with. so I'll hold off testing until at least next month.
It's no great loss if this PC misses out on a licence, I've already tested a clean install to check that it doesn't have an existing licence and won't activate. While it can run 10, it's more of a walk than a run - it's more useable left running its original OEM Win7.
Why would they bother in stopping it even if they said they'd . I'm thinking they're trying to get people aboard windows 10 by saying the free upgrade is coming to an end, scare tactics .
MS said the free upgrade would end July 2016. It didn't.
Why everyone (well it was only @Bree really on this forum but it was mentioned elsewhere) suddenly started thinking the whole thing would end with the end of some program for minorities is beyond me.
MS will stop the free upgrade when they want which (if they have any sense) is never. Most people buy a PC with an OS installed which leaves those few who don't.
If some of those few buy a cheap Windows 7 key and upgrade then MS get what they want anyway (someone else on Windows 10).
If some buy a cheap windows 7 key and don't upgrade then what is the point of stopping the offer - it makes no difference either way.
My guess is the free upgrade will never end as MS honestly don't want it to. MS want people on 10.
That's one of the PRIMARY reasons I waited, and waited, and waited some more until I attempted to upgrade my OEM PCs from
Windows 7 to Windows 10. I figured that with the combination of high volumes of upgrades occurring, and Window 10 in an early form there would be PLENTY of issues, issues that could create serious issues for what where then perfectly operating systems. Of course there were plenty of teething issues with those upgrades, I finally upgraded before the end of the year 2017 and had NO issues upgrading a
very compatible Acer from 2014, and a less compatible HP Pavilion (both desktops) from 2009. Both upgraded 100% fine with no problems.
I was concerned with the HP because it came with a HD5400 Radeon graphics card and I've heard there have been issues with this and incompatible driver. I update my driver BEFORE upgrading to 10 and things went fine.