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If you open a windows\system32 command prompt and run this...slmgr /dlv Win10 will give you the details on your license, whether it's RETAIL or OEM. At the same command prompt, if you run this...slmgr /xpr Win10 will show you the present activation status of your build (eg., "permanent," etc.)
slmgr /dlv provides a lot more info than you can get just looking at the Settings\update & security\activation page, if you are interested.
Over the past five years running on a retail Win10 license upgrade from a retail version of Win8, I've changed motherboards about ~4 times I think and CPUs ~3 times. Each time I had no trouble getting the proper retail Win10 license reactivated. Easiest way to do it is through a Microsoft account, imo, which allows you to install new hardware or delete old hardware under the same license--if it's a RETAIL license. Seems to have worked pretty well thus far.
Yep...that's true...I've always thought the purpose of Microsoft's OS-included apps & even Edge--or IE when that was a thing--was basically just to get you up and running with enough software to reach the Internet where you could download the latest device drivers direct from the device manufacturers, download the browser of your choice if you don't like Microsoft's browser, and of course whatever third-party applications you might want, and so on...
Should be an interesting day, the 24th...
I've not changed motherboards nearly as often, but I *have* changed drives and such, and I, too, have had 0 issues. Mine comes back as Retail and Permanent on the checks, with a 1001 rearm count for both Windows and SKU....
And cleanly installed at least 2x / year (both when using Insider's Preview builds live on bare metal, and later when running only stable release builds on bare metal). And one completely full machine replacement last year with the new rig.
I'll be watching but please don't give me the Ballmer jumping monkey boy shouting "Developers, developers, developers..."
Hi there
python is an excellent language --particularly for things like A.I and robotics -- you can run a python interpreter on Windows too.
I think also there are some versions of Windows -- is it W10 IOT version ? perhaps that is designed to run on ARM processors so it's possibly not impossible to get a Raspberry PI system to run some sort of Windows !!!!.
For Linux though absolutely essential not to be scared of the Command line. A lot of Windows users probably don't even use the built in command line and certainly not the power shell.
As for the announcement - I'll wait until tomorrow -- and review the posts -- Those living in the USA will have had time to inwardly digest and comment on what Ms has to say. However after all the Hoo -Haa with the leaked W11 build and the end of support for W10 announcement I'm sure most bookies would be betting on some sort of W11 announcement -- I'll wait and see.
Meanwhile I've a VM running the leaked version of W11 and a "Windows to Go" version running on an older laptop just for playing around with. Will hopefully know later whether to "Keep or Destroy" !!!
Cheers
jimbo