Add to the price the cost to replace any peripherals that will no longer work.
Anyone with windows 8 is left out. You must upgrade to 8.1 for the free upgrade. My computer refused to find the “Store” to upgrade to 8.1. Is this a common occurrence to cheat people out of windows 10?
I have a few Windows 7 Pro machines that I just keep around as spares. I might try it with one of them.
Does anyone know if Win 10 is only 64 bit? I have a mix of 32 and 64 bit Win 7 Pro computers.
M4L Win 10
If 10 is anything like 8 then no thanks, even at free the cost in frustration and mental anguish is way to high
Is this another of those ‘you can check in, but you can’t check out’ marketing ploys? Is there a way to return to your former Windoze if you don’t like 10?
And there should be some sort of scan available from MicroSoft you can run on your old machine for compatibility. This might save you the headache from the above circumstance.
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I have two machines on Win 7 and I recently bought another copy of Win 7 in case one of them crashes. Before I upgrade to Win 10, somebody needs to convince me what I am getting that I can’t do on Win 7. They could not convince me to switch to Win 8 and I suspect they won’t convince me this time either.
Incidentally, I have an older box still on Win 2000 NT Pro because I have some media software that perform better on that than on Win 7.
Those of us who use Windows Media Player to play DVDs will have to find a replacement.
I might be totally wrong here but I had the impression that the upgrade was “free” but then they moved you to some sort of annual support free after the first year or something.
Companies love recurrent income streams way more than they like one time purchase fees - office is going this way as well.
Again I could be wrong but I think “Free” needs to be in quotation marks.