Wednesday, July 29th 2015
Windows 10 Upgrade Begins Rolling Out in Waves
Microsoft began rolling out of the Windows 10 upgrade to existing users of Windows 8.1 and Windows 7. The upgrade process is handled by a "reservation system," which lets you tell Microsoft in advance that you intend to upgrade, using the Get Windows 10 (GWX) app that's been sticking out in your system-tray over the past month, which looks like the Windows logo. Once "reserved," Windows slowly fetches installation files of Windows 10, and stores them into a temporary directory. When all the installation files and drivers specific to your hardware have been downloaded, the app notifies you that the upgrade can begin at your command.
The upgrade process itself is zero-intervention, and happens much like an iOS or Android OTA upgrade. Once it's installed, you get to customize a handful things, and then you're done. GWX may notify you that your upgrade is ready to begin any time today. If you've not reserved your upgrade, you can still do so, but you may not get to upgrade just yet, maybe over the next "few weeks or months," according to Microsoft. With an estimated 350 million installations queued up for the upgrade, GWX will not be able to fetch the installation files and drivers by maxing out your Internet bandwidth. It will take its own time, as Microsoft servers shed their bandwidth load.
There doesn't appear to be a strict correlation between reservation and upgrade availability. For example, we reserved upgrades for two of our PCs around the same time. The PC with the simpler hardware, programs, and settings, finished with the upgrade, while another one is still queued up. Microsoft will formally launch Windows 10 in media events spread around the world.
The upgrade process itself is zero-intervention, and happens much like an iOS or Android OTA upgrade. Once it's installed, you get to customize a handful things, and then you're done. GWX may notify you that your upgrade is ready to begin any time today. If you've not reserved your upgrade, you can still do so, but you may not get to upgrade just yet, maybe over the next "few weeks or months," according to Microsoft. With an estimated 350 million installations queued up for the upgrade, GWX will not be able to fetch the installation files and drivers by maxing out your Internet bandwidth. It will take its own time, as Microsoft servers shed their bandwidth load.
There doesn't appear to be a strict correlation between reservation and upgrade availability. For example, we reserved upgrades for two of our PCs around the same time. The PC with the simpler hardware, programs, and settings, finished with the upgrade, while another one is still queued up. Microsoft will formally launch Windows 10 in media events spread around the world.
68 Comments on Windows 10 Upgrade Begins Rolling Out in Waves
Apparently the rumour was there is a 30 day "cool off" period in which you can revert to the previous O.S. after that period the key is upgraded for use with W10 only.
If you buy a retail version you can transfer.
If he waits and moves to Skylake then installs the free upgrade he doesn't have to worry.
My AMD drivers installed perfectly fine. Hearing you guys story make me not want to touch my Nvidia based PCs.
any ideas
The activation server determined the specified product key has been blocked.
I have the following options:
Change product key
Go to store
This really sucks balls and I'm not a happy camper right now...:banghead:
If I had known that I would have problems with this I would not even upgrade it :cry:
for those lovely ones that think this is stupid, iam running out of licences ;-)
microsoft said that this would apply to home editions, pro editions would not be effected by change of hardware
Nothing in life is free or totally free so there is a catch somewhere that they are not telling
I'm sure that Micro$oft after a few months or a year will ask you to pay (~$100/200) for you to continue using W10 or they will start making you paid for updates like Apple does...?
Then it will be to late to revert back to your windows 7/8 unless you still have the original DVD or key...
All I know is that I don't care that much about it as for the past 5-6 years I don't play PC games anymore ~5-10 hours/years maybe? & I never liked playing online games (multiplayers) & never will
Maybe because games are so boring now a days?
Sure they have better graphics but where is the fun now?
Maybe Half-Life 3 will be good if they ever doing another one?
Anyways If I ever do upgrade to W10 later on I will just buy the DVD instead of an upgrade now & paid later kind of thing...
I downloaded via the above link.
Pro. So my upgrade is W10 Pro
W7 Ulti "technet" to 8.1 pro.