Windows 10: Anniversary Upgrade W10 dual-boot license change

As I said earlier it is only when the release and Insider versions are the same that you do not get an expiry date so you may leave Programme. The licence has nothing to do with expiry.

Digital licences have not changed - still bound to mobo id and based on servers. The MSA link does not bind licence to MSA, just simply registers on MSA that you have a licence and enables pc to find it on activation servers in event a hardware change causes failure to activate.

 

The way I read it when the rules changed was, activation for the Insider Preview from that point forward had the same requirements as the Consumer Release. If you start now, on a PC that never had Windows 10 activated on it, you have to install with valid windows 10 product code to activate. The fuzzy part is if you were an insider but didn't do the free upgrade. You did a clean install from day one. If you got a Digital Entitlement along the way, I'd say a reinstall will activate with it. If you didn't ever get a DL and it just showed activated with a product key, its not going to activate with a skip key. Digital License's are good for the CR an IP so I have no way of testing, knowing that to be true.
I am pretty sure I've seen posts where somebody had to start over with a clean install and then had trouble activating. And that, that was their only Windows 10 install on that PC. I always just assumed, if you left, it would stay activated but you'd get the time clock/expirers thing.

 

That is pretty much my understanding re. fuzzy part .

 

Was about to say how "fuzzy" digital licences are... and if I'm the "supposed" activation expert, God help us all... LOL

But as I said in another post, MS PR and Deployment most likely operate from opposite wings at Redmond... so we can only speculate what the real deal is - the thing is it won't help MS much to deactivate digital licences as that would proliferate piracy and slow down adoption. They have never really enforced the EULA much less likely now.

 

Yeah - I think the 1 billion target is their sole focus.

For unspecified deities sake, they have not even stopped free upgrades yet. You almost can't help thinking somebody in the Management has simply forgotten to instruct the Deployment team to stop free upgrades - LOL.

 

IMHO, letting a few more get free a upgrade isn't going to impact the bottom line much. Most people (in my crowd) buy a new PC because they need a new PC, not because they want the latest and greatest from Redmond. Those that just have to have it, already have it. Like a year ago, lol.

 

Yup, it's a strange situation...it's the migration of Win 7 users that is their bottom-line (... arguably their best OS ever) will be a coup with the lucrative cloud-first philosophy.