Windows 10: Windows 10 Build 10074 Expected at BUILD 2015

Dencal,

You seem to be the only one here that fully understands Microsoft's plans so perhaps you can clear up a question in my mind?
I build computers and I'm very concerned about how I'm going to install Win10 on new machines. Will Microsoft require me to buy Win8.1 Pro, install it on a new machine, and then upgrade it to Win10 before I sell it as a Win10 machine?
This has me very concerned so any official information that you have regarding this issue would be most appreciated.

 

No just buy a Windows 10 license and install that on the PC. If there is no OS on the PC you skip the upgrade process and just clean install Windows 10.

 

I will do the upgrade method. I have two clones of Windows 7 just in case I have an issue or issues.

 

And where do I get the install media?
Dencal just informed us that all installs will be done by upgrade?
I'm confused!

 

The free upgrades for those with Windows 7 or 8.1 will be via online upgrade. There will still be regular install media for everybody else. You'll still be able to buy Windows 10 like you do Windows 8. When Windows 10 is officially released you'll be able to buy a stand alone copy to be used to install on new hardware. Why would they not do that?

 

Yeah, I know. They kind of force you to go to the "shadier" parts of the internet to get an ISO or go through the annoying process of an ESD conversion.

 

That's my question???

Dencal seems to know what he's talking about...............
he says by upgrade only???
I do clean installs only!
He says clean installs are only necessary when a machine is messed up? Can I sell a messed up machine with a clean install.
Do I have to mess up a machine to get an ISO?
I may wind up out of business??????????????????????

 

Making an ESD ISO is quite easy to do. Look in the tutorial section

 

There will be a stand alone version that you can purchase to do clean installs with. Always has been, always will be. There is no logic in making you buy Windows 8 and doing an upgrade to 10. Right now Microsoft wants to test out the upgrade process to get rid of bugs and other issues. That's why ISO's are so hard to come by. It's not always going to be like that.

 

I'm sitting here with a new machine.............. no O/S
where do I find the ESD?

 

My own experience, shared only by a few on another forum.
I went on the upgrade, in the first instance, from 056 to 061. Among other changes of folder size, the most significant was the Driver Store, which went from 1GB to a whopping 26GB. Something certainly put in there. A clean install of 061 left it at 1gb.

In both cases, the OS ran without any scary problems.

 

Check your PM........

 

As the final release is to be free only for those computers already installed with either W7 or W8.1.
Common sense dictates that it must be possible for M$ to confirm that only existing computers with the above O/S`s are eligible
for an upgrade otherwise everyone no matter what O/S they had could claim a freebie.
Therefore upgrading is the way to do it, and no I do not have a hot line to M$.
Media should still be available to purchase either through the M$ website to be downloaded, or perhaps DVD,s or USB memory sticks for laptops without DVD,s at computer shops, though it would not surprise me if M$ only permitted the sale of the software was only available from them.

 

I sent you link. unblock your PM.

 

You don't. You install the latest version offered on the Insiders download page and then upgrade to the latest version offered online. During that process, you could snag the ESD file for next time.