Monday, June 1st 2015

Windows 10 Release Date Announced

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Microsoft Windows 10 will launch on the 29th of July, 2015. This is when existing users of Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 will be able to upgrade to their applicable variant of Windows 10 for free; PC makers ship desktops and notebooks with the OS pre-installed; and when you will be able to buy Windows 10 copies off the shelf.

Microsoft is expecting at least 350 million users of Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 to freely upgrade to Windows 10 by the end of the year, many of which could upgrade on day-one, clogging Microsoft Update. To mitigate that, Microsoft launched a "reservation" system. Current users of Windows 7 and Windows 8.1, woke up to a curious Windows logo in their system-tray, which launches a tiny app that lets you "reserve" your upgrade (a position in the queue to upgrade). When your time comes, Windows will fetch the Windows 10 upgrade image from Microsoft Update. The actual upgrade process will be similar to that of Windows 7 to Windows 8. You can choose a clean install, or upgrade over an existing installation. Once installed, your Windows 10 license is tied to the machine forever.

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52 Comments on Windows 10 Release Date Announced

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GreiverBladewrong since you can reinstall a laptop without the recover partition ... i did it manytime with a generic win7 install (all in one) and re using the license key COA, if i can do it ... why it's not possible? (a lot of failed HDD replaced with spare and such and no cloning involved)

also no reaction to the post ?
www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/windows-10-release-date-announced.213052/page-2#post-3291248

i prove that you can use OEM key tied to a machine for any kind of installation with a generic win7 USB key or DVD to another completely different machine with absolutely nothing in common with the previous one, win 10 might change that but you talk about 8.1 and previous (dunno about 8 and 8.1 ... i don't use them ... "pointless revision" )
Uplink10I do not feel like having Microsoft account just because I bought one of their products and those idiots will probably again ask me for my phone number (as they did when I created a free email account and then after some time they asked me to enter my phone number and when I refused I could not access my email account) and I will once again be at a loss because I value my privacy and anonymity.
I'm not wrong, you just didn't read my post properly. Either that or you're quoting the wrong person. My argument the whole time has been that free upgrades are not tied to a machine simply because they are free. I was replying to the bolded part of the quoted post which said the thread was full of fail.

I never said the OS couldn't be reinstall without a recovery partition. Although OEM upgrades are with W10, so I guess that makes you wrong. ;)
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GreiverBlade
Pill Monsterso I guess that makes you wrong. ;)
nope ... that doesn't ;) if you want to put something in bold to answer it, just do as i do remove all the unnecessary lines except the one you answer :D

and i was not saying you were wrong i was saying the par 1 of
erixxOEM-1: can mean preinstalled OS, like a laptop (I have been through that one: you will not be given a "key" but a restore system tied to the laptop. Lose it and you are Fubar.
was wrong (but not totally anymore since with W8/8.1 it seems the mechanic has changed) ;)

corrected :roll:
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