Windows 10: W10 Tech Preview upgraded to full version. Huh? Is that expected?

Hi,
This is more curiosity that anything - I'm not looking a gift horse in the mouth...
I had two installations of the tech preview: One on an ex-XP Dell laptop for my father to play around with, and one in a VM.

About 5 days ago my dad reported that it had "done something" and I found that it had upgraded to the full W10 Pro version. Yesterday, my W10 (which was running build 10130 in a vm) said there were updates - and installing them, it installed W10 Pro.

Am I missing something here? I know the upgrades are free to 7/8/8.1 - but are they upgrading all tech preview builds as well? certainly nice to have a new Windows 10 machine, virtual or not.
I still will hang onto my main Windows 7s - I don't think W10 is desktop friendly, but well...cool... and the info may help someone with that old laptop they don't want to spend OS money on.

Cheers

:)

 

Technical Preview isn't allowing me to get my reservation to Windows 10 RTM

I think I have two issues here, which may be related. I'm currently running W10 Tech Preview build 10162 (which I'm hearing isn't the last build). I cannot update this version after the release of W10 RTM. I'm not getting the Window 10 app icon in my
system tray and I cannot reserve my upgrade. What can I do to get Win10 RTM? I was running Windows 7 prior to upgrading to W10 tech preview.

 

Problems with Windows 10 update from 10/22/2015

Hello all,

I installed the new update this morning. I have been part of the Preview program until one of the updates this summer converted my installation to the "Full Version" of Windows 10 Home. The update rolled it back to the "Insider Preview build 10565". Can
anyone tell me why this happened? I upgraded from v8.1 to the Insider Preview and then to the Full Version of 10 Home. I am just confused as to why they would go backward from the full version to the tech preview.

thanks for any help in advance

Stephen

 

I'm pretty sure if you stay in the Insider program, your tech previews indeed update to Windows 10. Mine did.

 

okaay. that was it? cool .... and good to hear, because with this one I've been trying to feed back as much as possible, so it's good when they return the courtesy.
current battle is with trying to tailor what the start menu looks like ... but I'd better post that in an appropriate thread.
thanks, pparks1!

 

In an elevated command prompt type slmgr /xpr and make sure you have a permanent activation and not a preview that will expire.