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One solution here since I may have some 8 Home laptops while having upgrade two 7 Ultimate and 7 Pro machines was to simply download all four ISOs as well as the combo 32/64bit ISOs for both editions to keep onhand as well as to be able to set up temp VMs on other people''s machines to give them a look at what 10 is compared to mostly 7 and 8 at the present time since no one went for anything with 8.1 on it.
Here I had went for all three editions of 7 Home Premium while my main build was Ultimate and a second remote access project runs 7 Pro there. The Home Premium was on the same type of mini tower build but set up for a family member to check the email and do a little browsing and not much else. So you can see where I would have reason for downloading both editions in both 32/64bit flavors.
As for MS selling 10 at the moment? NO! is the answer as I am trying to get a copy of the latest 10525 test build for10 which will likely become the actual paid for retail release while we are simply running the "Public" not Windows Insider Tech Preview builds free of charge until the actual finished 10 is out next year and why I still kept 7 going as well as still using 7 a lot!
Dell has their recovery disks that they sell separately no longer including media with their new systems that are full install disks you can see Windows put on any machine! You just have to have a valid product key which is now something MS is planning to do away with as well as optical media entirely!
No more Windows disks(floppy disks to cds onto dvds with Vista) but USB Installation Keys! MS is also claiming that it will see 10 on 1 billion machines by 2018? We'll see since many are still Vista and 7 diehards with Vista being dropped from the support roster next year!
So to see 10 Pro on now and where it will activate you will first need to change the 8.1 Home edition to one of the previous Pro editions. 8.1 was more like 8 Second Edition and you may find a deal on either 7 or 8 Pro at this time to upgrade properly to 10 Pro. I had already invested in 7 years back and now able to grab that up for two systems here which worked out well.