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Will Free Windows 10 "Upgrade" work with Clean Install (CMPXCHG16b)?
DavidY seems to be the only one here who truly understands the issue, and his summary is cogent and right to the point: He says he doesn't know. Fair enough.
We simply don't know how Microsoft is finally going to handle this "upgrade" policy, with regard to clean installations, how their licensing schema will work, and whether this CMPXCHG16b instruction nonsense will continue.
My additional takeaway (plus a bit of editorializing):
Also unknown is whether Microsoft will continue to drop Windows 10 x64 support for "old", 2005-vintage (but otherwise perfectly fine) CPUs, such as my 2.2 GHz AMD X2 4400+ dual core processor, but will continue to claim that Windows 8.X and Windows 10 can run perfectly fine on 1 GHz single-core processors - the first of which became available around March of 2000, which is now 15 years ago.
I don't get it. Does Microsoft believe that the year 2005 is older than the year 2000? I guess when it comes to supporting certain AMD processors on Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 x64, they do.
Last edited by Trev0r09; 09 Mar 2015 at 21:10.