On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 2:56 AM, Leen de Braal <ldb@braha.nl> wrote:
There is a "Get Windows 10" icon in the lower right (part of the task bar).
It I say yes I "reserve" a copy which which will be available July 29 (or later).
It says it is free on both my Home and Ultimate versions.
That is for the first year after the official launch date of July 29. After that you have to pay, either by buying an OEM-version with a new PC, or the packaged (upgrade-)products.
So if I do the upgrade I can expect to be writing a check next summer?
No, you have 1 year to do the upgrade for free, and after that you just get your regular updates (which you can no longer disable, btw, updates are mandatory). If you do not upgrade in the first year, you loose the free upgrade. Policy seems to be to get as much computers on win10 as soon as possible, to avoid another xp. And since MS is on their way to just making money with subscriptions, as Billy just said, one could predict that they will on the long run let you pay a subscription for getting your updates. Win 10 will also be the last version, MS is making it a kind of rolling release (which is the reason they make updating mandatory, they say).
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