Yep, you read that right. Literally every Windows 7 or 8.1 PC is entitled to a Windows 10 upgrade. Even the pirates.
Windows 10, Microsoft’s apology for the mess that was Windows 8.1, will be released sometime later this year, with a tentative time frame of “Summer 2015”, according to Terry Myerson, the head of Microsoft’s operating systems unit. In this interview with Myerson from Reuters, he said that Microsoft is “upgrading all qualified PCs, genuine and non-genuine, to Windows 10,” which was later clarified by a statement to The Verge saying that “Anyone with a qualified device can upgrade to Windows 10, including those with pirated copies of Windows”.
Which is interesting, and kind of alarming. We’ve been playing around with the latest Technical Preview and while it brings back lots of things users missed from Windows 8.1, we really feel it’s nowhere near ready for a Summer 2015 release. Also, fighting off piracy is a big pain for software companies like Microsoft and making it available to pirates is like them saying they’ve given up. However, the Microsoft spokesperson who got in touch with The Verge said, “We believe customers over time will realize the value of properly licensing Windows and we will make it easy for them to move to legitimate copies.”
Rad move, Microsoft.
You can sign in for the free Windows 10 upgrade at launch at windows.microsoft.com/en-ph/windows-10/about
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as an apology for windows 8
But Windows 10 will only be free for a year.
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sabi sa mga articles is yung china region lang yung makakaavail ng free legit windows 10 upgrade. kasi talamak daw ang piracy dun
It’s a Trap
Windows 10, should it reach certain level of suckage, will also exist only for a year.
And windows 12 will be free
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