Kinda looks that way, but I have my Microsoft Account connected to Windows 10 Technical Preview anyway. I think they have us with the "Microsoft Windows Insider Program Agreement".
Don't we have to be online before we can get new builds?
Another thing.
I originally (clean) installed W10TP as a VM.
Does that mean my VM will update to the final version of W10, but it will be unregistered (and can't be activated/registered)?
I think you will be able to do that as well but still have to have a Microsoft Account but you will have to choose VM or Hard Drive. This also brings up another question. The builds that upgrade from ten preview to release do you have a right to move it to a new computer if removed from a previous computer?
I think that to get rights to transfer to other hardware, you need to go out and buy a copy of Windows 10. If you had a spare licence of 7 or 8.x to install, then in the first year you could install that and upgrade, but after the first year I think all the free options are locked to hardware.
You could keep both local and MS account if you wanted. I think that having an MS Account will mean that you'd keep a permanent licence on that hardware.
It's not clear to me whether, once you've activated with RTM after 29 July, you need to keep the MS Account going - my guess is that you might be able to clean install and it would still activate without the MSA but I'm speculating.
The way I see it, the whole deal with the having to have an MSA account and logging in with it, is so only registered Insiders get the free upgrade to RTM. It will weed out those that didn't sign up and pulled a leaked build off of the Internet, and clean installed that. They aren't true Insiders. Those that do not want to use a Live ID, ever, not even to sign up for the preview.
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