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deskpro2k3 on 22 January 2015

Win10 will be free for Win7 users? Did I read that right?



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TheGoldenBoy on 22 January 2015
deskpro2k3 said:
Win10 will be free for Win7 users? Did I read that right?

Yeah for the first year. Then after that you have to pay to upgrade.



deskpro2k3 on 22 January 2015

Look what I found.

 

 

oh I see. thanks TheGoldenBoy



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sundin13 on 22 January 2015
TheGoldenBoy said:
deskpro2k3 said:
Win10 will be free for Win7 users? Did I read that right?

Yeah for the first year. Then after that you have to pay to upgrade.


Wait, by this do you mean that its basically a one year free trial or do you mean that if you don't redeem your upgrade within a year, you have to pay for it? And does the same apply to windows 8/8.1 Users? And should I even care about Windows 10? What makes it better? (pardon my ignorance)



TheGoldenBoy on 22 January 2015
sundin13 said:
TheGoldenBoy said:
deskpro2k3 said:
Win10 will be free for Win7 users? Did I read that right?

Yeah for the first year. Then after that you have to pay to upgrade.

Wait, by this do you mean that its basically a one year free trial or do you mean that if you don't redeem your upgrade within a year, you have to pay for it? And does the same apply to windows 8/8.1 Users? And should I even care about Windows 10? What makes it better? (pardon my ignorance)

They explained it poorly during the conference. But from what I understand is that during the first year of its launch it's free to upgrade and you keep it forever. After a year anyone wanting to upgrade will have to pay. The Empire thread would probably know better though. I'm still not completely sure myself.



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jlmurph2 on 22 January 2015
TheGoldenBoy said:
sundin13 said:

Wait, by this do you mean that its basically a one year free trial or do you mean that if you don't redeem your upgrade within a year, you have to pay for it? And does the same apply to windows 8/8.1 Users? And should I even care about Windows 10? What makes it better? (pardon my ignorance)

They explained it poorly during the conference. But from what I understand is that during the first year of its launch it's free to upgrade and you keep it forever. After a year anyone wanting to upgrade will have to pay. The Empire thread would probably know better though. I'm still not completely sure myself.

That's my understanding too. But I'm not sure.



TheGoldenBoy on 22 January 2015
jlmurph2 said:
TheGoldenBoy said:
sundin13 said:

Wait, by this do you mean that its basically a one year free trial or do you mean that if you don't redeem your upgrade within a year, you have to pay for it? And does the same apply to windows 8/8.1 Users? And should I even care about Windows 10? What makes it better? (pardon my ignorance)

They explained it poorly during the conference. But from what I understand is that during the first year of its launch it's free to upgrade and you keep it forever. After a year anyone wanting to upgrade will have to pay. The Empire thread would probably know better though. I'm still not completely sure myself.

That's my understanding too. But I'm not sure.

Yeah their explanation was confusing. I hope it was I said though; that would be awesome.



ktay95 on 22 January 2015

Can somebody post a YT link on my wall to the whole thing?? I dont want to be spoiled... unless it was utter garbage but I highly doubt that



Panama on 22 January 2015
TheGoldenBoy said:
Panama said:
Very happy with what I saw with Windows 10. I liked it so much that I'll even buy it instead of cheaping out and waiting a year :^)

I think actually they said that for the first year it is free and then after that anyone wanting to upgrade will have to pay.

I hope you're right. I was watching it with the cnet live blog also open, and they were under the impression you have to wait a year before it becomes free.



TheGoldenBoy on 22 January 2015
kowenicki said:
TheGoldenBoy said:
jlmurph2 said:
TheGoldenBoy said:

They explained it poorly during the conference. But from what I understand is that during the first year of its launch it's free to upgrade and you keep it forever. After a year anyone wanting to upgrade will have to pay. The Empire thread would probably know better though. I'm still not completely sure myself.

That's my understanding too. But I'm not sure.

Yeah their explanation was confusing. I hope it was I said though; that would be awesome.

your bolded understanding is 100% correct.

Thanks for the clarification.