Windows 10: Can you get the upgrade but not install it for a year or more?

Hi, unfortunately I will not be able to install win10 on my personal work laptop due to some of their software and programs. Will I be able to make an ISO or something so I can install it a year or more later when perhaps my company will support it with their software and programs?

Thanks

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can you explain (to a 5 year old??) what VoIP is - is it free I have broadband but want to use a telephone receiver

It's a complicated question and hard to explain to a 5 year old, but I'll try to make it as simple as I can and my answer may not be technically accurate, since I am not a VOIP expert.

I have used Skype for years and I have recently ported a landline over to an entirely VOIP service, called Lingo. And this is what I know about it:

VOIP (Voice Over IP) is a way to send and receive phone calls entirely through an internet connection. To use it, you'd plug a VOIP box into a broadband or DSL router (to get access to your high speed internet connection) and then you'd plug a phone into the
VOIP box.

Once the service is all connected up, anyone can call the phone from any landline or cellphone (and even a compatible VOIP line) and the phone will ring in your home or you can call any landline or cellphone from the VOIP phone. (I'm actually using a two-line
phone for this - one line is my home phone number, which is a regular landline, and the other line is for a charity organization I direct - this phone number was a regular landline, but to cut costs I ported it over to Lingo and now it is entirely handled
via VOIP).

VOIP can replace your landline if you choose a service that can port your existing phone number.

VOIP service providers generally provide discounted international calling (I do not know of any purely VOIP services that provide FREE international calling).

Skype is not an entirely pure VOIP service. Skype's free service allows you to call any other Skype user anywhere in the world, similar to the way you can instant message via Yahoo messenger or Windows Live messenger (only instead of messaging you are talking
to the person - Skype also provides free messenger services). To use the Skype free voice services, all you'd need is a headset and microphone to plug into your computer and an internet connection.

Skype also offers some paid services that allow you to have a phone number and would allow you to call from an internet-capable phone that is plugged into your broadband or DSL router (thus bypassing your computer). If you subscribe to the Skype phone number
plan, you could place calls from the phone to any landline or cellphone and you could receive calls that are placed from any landline or cellphone. The internet-capable phone would ring when a call is received similar to the way a landline rings.

Skype also provides discounted calling to international numbers.

If you subscribed to the Skype phone number, calls received to and placed from that number would use a combination of landline/cellular and voip technology to transmit and deliver the phone call.

Now that I've provided an answer, I imagine some other folks will chime in at least to correct something I've posted here.

 

can you explain (to a 5 year old??) what VoIP is - is it free I have broadband but want to use a telephone receiver

I dont use Skype for instance I dont use the phone much at all really but need it for international calls I need to save money I have broadband with tpg and land line with clubtelco which costs $30 per month plus calls my bill is never more than $65
but I am told I can get free calls on VoIP I dont use our pre paid mobile except when travelling and then rarely so bundles do not help me I dont understand all the jargon I need words of English and one syllable

 

You should be able to do this.

 

Great thanks. I was worried I would have to buy it to install on this laptop when they finally support it.

So I won't have to install it first and then downgrade back to 8.1?

 

Assuming that we can get the ISO from MS I don't see the need to do that. Just get the ISO .. burn it to a DVD and then install it when you want to.

 

I'm of the belief that it wouldn't really matter.

My understanding is the free trial period has a starting date and a ending date. It has nothing to do with when you
install Windows 10. If you install Windows 10 1 month before the ending date you get 1 month free use.

I'm open for corrections if this is not correct.

 

Correct.. you should be able to get an ISO at any point during the give away and install it then or later.

 

I would think you would have to activate your copy sometime in that year, I don't think those unactivated keys would be left as free in perpetuity.

 

It depends how it works.
My theory on how it will work is that you'll have to actually install the upgrade, and let it activate with that hardware.

 

David I was thinking something similar, that it had to be activated it the one year time frame. Image old OS, install & activate new, re-image old....???

 

That is what I was wondering about too!

 

Source: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/...or-first-year/

 

And there you have it. If you want it free, download and install within a year of release.

 

Here is the way it worked with WMC on windows 8 M$ gave away keys only good for a specified time limit if you did not install in that time frame the key was no longer valid. If I were M$ they need to have as many users as they can get using W10 to create a demand for APPs in order to get developers to write any as it stands now that Developer base is very sparse. No developers means there walled garden doesn't have any fruit to sell.