Windows 10: Here’s what happens after the July 29th free Windows 10 offer ends

Well my Win7 laptop never ever showed me this Windows 10 upgrade prompts people talk/complain about so I just assumed it did not qualify cause some people even say it is annoying as hell and I never got annoyed hahahaha

Also this is not a CD with a key that I bought for myself it's just pre installed when I bought the laptop years ago so I thought that is why it is not qualified.

Found this thing about using Windows 10 without key here:

http://www.howtogeek.com/244678/you-...se-windows-10/

I guessed since Microsoft can detect this I'm not doing something wrong and they are letting me use it for free for now

and nope my Win10 is not activated yet it's like this since first time I installed. From what I see from some sites not even insiders will get free keys they will have the test version for free for what I understand! Not the regular one that I'm using here.

Yep that's a really nice tip and I tought about it myself since I got the new PC but just learn something with me: Brasil = hell so yeah a copy of Win7 is waaay more expensive than a Win10 new copy *Sad I can't even find it in a decent store! It's eitheir super cheap(shaddy) or super expensive!

I think I'm going to skip that cause I don't want problems *Smile

 

I beg to differ with you on that statement. The EULA states that once Windows is upgraded, you can no longer use the old license. There is no "spirit of the law" included in the EULA.

They may not unofficially object, but I'm quite sure they would officially object! I have experienced an OEM copy I accidentally installed in a computer I was working on reaching out and changing the drivers to match that computer. So, yes, they can both be run at the same time! However, running at the same time or not, I consider it theft, and definitely will not go there!

I beg to differ . . . If I build a computer (and I've built many, many of them), and buy an OEM version of Windows for that computer, it is fully licensed to me if I choose to keep the computer for myself. I am not, however, allowed to put that OEM copy on any other computer. It is forever tied to the computer I installed it on.

 

To be legal you would have to sell the computer you built and installed the OEM version on to a third party. I have never heard of and probably never will hear of MS taking someone to court because they installed a OEM version on their personal computer. I personally think that that is just legalese to prevent someone from trying to take MS to small claims court because MS will not give support to a OEM version. The system builder is supposed to give any needed support.

 

What if I get a new device. Can my purchased win 10 key not be used?

 

Technically, if you install an OEM System Builder license on a PC, you have to sell that pc, and you have to provide support for it.

*Ditto

 

If it is a full Retail License, it has transfer rights, which means it can be unregistered/uninstalled on the original system and installed/registered on the new pc.

 

I've always built my own systems since my first that came with Windows 3.0 and have never installed a Windows OEM version on any of them. I didn't think I could live with the restrictions since I updated my primary system every couple of years and passed removed parts sequentially down the line to 3 other desktops. I'd advise anybody building their own system not to put Windows OEM on it as there are strong chances they will come to regret the day.

 

I got a digital entitlement for all my capable computer. only my desktops will not as they are too old. They still run on Windows 7 though as the most recent capable system....
On my test laptop I run Windows 10 currently permanently mostly for learning reasons. At times of Windows XP I did not even wanted anything to do with Windows 7, now I am using it almost exclusively. Times a' changing. Maybe some day I will have Windows 15 *chuckle

 

The simple answer when hesitating to leave Windows 7 or 8 is to do the upgrade (to secure the permanent license for Windows 10) and then roll-back. That removes the deadline because the device becomes a registered Windows 10 device on the first installation of Windows 10 and that is good for the life of the device.

 

Oh, well, I don't have any OEM versions installed, so I guess I'm OK. Whoops! I've only bought an OEM version once, and the salesman told me what I said above. In fact, he suggested that I buy the OEM version rather than the Retail version. I'm pretty sure that was Windows XP. At any rate, that computer is long gone . . . I gave it to a friend whose computer had crashed.

 

Yeah, I only installed the OEM version once, and that was seemingly wrong advice given to me by the salesman.

Microsoft gave us Beta Testers a free copy of Vista, and somehow I earned two free copies of Windows 7 Ultimate, bought Windows 8 cheap when that came out. Now I get Windows 10 as a free upgrade. Been pretty lucky all in all.

 

Yep, and for those who don't build their own systems, all new computers come with Windows 10 installed. That is, unless you can get the OEM to sell you one with Windows 7 or 8.1. *Smile

 

I gave it a third try and still found Windows 10 to be so buggy. Reformatted my main laptop back to factory install Win 8.1, spent the hours updating and installing and configuring and now the OS is perfect and the laptop works great.

 

I don't know where you're finding your bugs. Windows 10 is and has been perfectly stable except for the occasional glitch.

 

Same here, two desktop computers, one of them on my home entertainment system and a laptop running the insider preview.
No real problems