1 more month before the Windows 10 free upgrade expires

[blubbermarble]

Hey there,

There is a month left for u to upgrade to Windows 10 for free for Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 users.

How's Windows 10? The anniversary update will come next month.

 

[sonic1000]

I'm going to wait for the last day to make sure that all the major and most common bugs are gone.

 

[chemistryfreak]

I find the auto update nags very irritating but overall it is still worth the free update if you are on Windows 7/8.

 

[Adeka]

they will extend it for 5 more years

 

[TotalInsanity4]

I like it. There's no real reason not to use it at this point

 

[samiam144]

It runs pretty well on my laptop coming from Windows 7, and seems a bit faster too.
Same for my desktop coming from Windows 8.1. Luckily I haven't had any driver issues or anything like that, so it's a solid update for me. Been using it around the time it released and I'm pleased thus far.

 

[wormdood]

i was a strong believer that windows 10 sucked balls and could not have any positives to give my horribly outdated desktop . . . and now all i can taste is my foot

 

[IzeC0ld]

i am totally not already on windows

 

[Jao Chu]

I have GWX control panel installed on both my Windows 7 machines for the exact purpose of preventing the privacy invading crapware that is Windows 10 from ever polluting them.

 

[XavyrrVaati]

The OS? It's fine. Pretty nice Windows tbh. The amount of stalking MS does now? Not so nice.

 

[TotalInsanity4]

I have GWX control panel installed on both my Windows 7 machines for the exact purpose of preventing the privacy invading crapware that is Windows 10 from ever polluting them.

And yet you're on the internet

 

[OrGoN3]

I followed this easy guide:

Step 1: Make a system image of your current system
Step 2: Make a bootable USB stick
Step 3: Update to Windows 10 through GWX
Step 4: Link my Windows account for reinstallation purposes later on
Step 5: Restore system image from step 1

Now I can wait until Microsoft makes some better fixes/tweaks and still retain my free copy!

 

[Lacius]

I think it would be smart for Microsoft to extend the Windows 10 free upgrade offer, considering their goal is to get as many people on Windows 10 as possible.

 

[Captain_N]

Yeah And? Still plunty of ways to get a legit iso for free.......

 

[blubbermarble]

Windows 8.0 users can directly upgrade to Windows 10 using this tool: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10
Don't waste time to update to Windows 8.1

 

[Jao Chu]

And yet you're on the internet

A bad day for me is sitting behind a VPN and browsing in TOR.

A good day is when I am using Tails Live USB.

Yeah, i watched the Edward Snowden documentary.....

 

[loco365]

I have it on both of my laptops, and I need to update my mom's computer manually because of the graphics card preventing the automatic upgrade. She's the one that voiced the interest in it, although I do wish she stay on 7, although I did break it just a little so perhaps updating can smooth out some of the bugs.

 

[uyjulian]

I'm going to wait for the last day to make sure that all the major and most common bugs are gone.

you can upgrade now, downgrade later and still keep your windows 10 serial key, but you can also choose windows 7.
if you wait until later, you have to pay for it, unless you upgraded earlier, so you can use the serial key you got

 

[driverdis]

I am busy getting the Windows 10 Pro licenses for all of my machines, any home premium ones go to ultimate (thanks DAZ) first then I upgrade to Windows 10 Pro. Windows 8 Home machines go to Windows 7 ultimate first then to Windows 10

Afterward, I wipe them and do a clean install of Windows 10 Pro (ei.cfg edited to allow selection of Pro)
I am also converting all my Legacy installs to GPT/UEFI also, and using Clover EFI to boot GPT/UEFI Windows for the machines that do not support UEFI mode.

 

[ihaveahax]

I was using 8.1 for the longest time, then decided to go to 10 since I just have it in a virtual machine.

also, fuck Microsoft's tactics to push Windows 10 on as many users as possible, including automatic unwanted upgrades. it doesn't matter how good 10 is, forcing people to use it is going to make users resist it. I really can't wait for this offer to end(it's going to be extended, obviously...)

the way it handles licenses can be somewhat annoying... I had the insider preview in a VM, but after upgrading to it, it can't be activated anymore because it apparently wasn't before, even though it was. I tried to just reinstall in another virtual machine due to how the digital entitlement works (it did work before), but since I went to the insider preview that no longer works.

https://www.grc.com/never10.htm?1