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Microsoft have also said that Windows 8 users are eligible to upgrade, but will use an ISO (and therefore can clean install) - see the Upgrade Matrix on this link:
http://www.zdnet.com/article/windows...eed-to-run-it/
Microsoft have also said that Windows 8 users are eligible to upgrade, but will use an ISO (and therefore can clean install) - see the Upgrade Matrix on this link:
http://www.zdnet.com/article/windows...eed-to-run-it/
Isn't it more important to know for sure that Ms will go thru with promise of free update/upgrade than how it is to be accomplished ? To and for me it's more important if we insiders are going to get free, retail version of windows of our choice. I would love to be able to keep my 8.1 license for another computer to use on.
Mike, if Microsoft goes back on its promise of free upgrades to Windows 10 there would most likely be such a move from Windows to Apple and Linux that our computers would probably be swept up into the vortex! IOW, it ain't happenin'. :)
It's a given that the free upgrade will happen. It's also a given that, again, most likely (gotta learn to qualify every statement I make) not even Microsoft knows exactly how the upgrade will work. My belief is that if they had figured out all the logistics, we'd know too and that this "guessing game" would be much less active than it is. :)
It's my belief too but wouldn't be first time to get disappointed. Anyway, I think it's pointless to debate the way it will be doneand get into all those semantics until MS comes clean officially.
I don't think Microsoft have promised free upgrades to Insiders though, which I think is what Mike is hoping for.
All that's been promised so far as I understand it is that users of Windows 7 and 8/8.1 can upgrade for free - most probably replacing that licence so you couldn't keep Windows 8.1 to use elsewhere.
Yup, but the fact remains that as long as we don't have a definitive answer, the debate will rage on. :) Just a fact of life.
One thing more: I'd bet a dollar to a doughnut that even if Microsoft put out an official statement defining exactly how the upgrades would be done, there would still be some who would get some of it wrong. Human nature, dontcha know . . .