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Yep I'm more interested in the after 1 year release
System builders/ oem copy of 10 terms.
Same here Joan, my system came with Vista Ultimate but I replaced it with a retail version of 7 Pro. I actually bought 3 copies when Microsoft did their cheap pre-order offer on the home and pro versions. 2 were home versions which I installed on family members systems and one was my own Pro licence.
Upgrades have never been a reliable way to go to another version of windows I learned that coming from Vista,
You have to jump through hoops and use Brink's .bat file to activate it in at least 7 and 8 = thanks for that though Shawn :)
But a system builders is less hoop jumping even though esd to iso options are there it's still another hoop.
I wouldn't give up a retail key personally
Hell I'm not willing to give up a oem/ system builders key of 7
Last I checked legally dual booting requires a full version of all involved versions of windows not clones that one was upgraded to a newer version.
Free is not as lovely to me as keeping what I have and possibly adding 10 to the usage if it serves a purpose other than just being free or new
As far as I've seen all 10 does is open a new can of worms called adds delivered to your start menu search and all apps you use so as far as I'm concerned it's a deal breaker.
Unless they can be removed completely in an easy way.
I don't mind giving up the retail key if it's transferable. And pretty sure I'd still be able to go back to Windows 7 (I think), if I didn't like it. Unless the old key is completely made void by taking the upgrade.
I'm going to be checking out a lot of reviews, videos on the final product, and waiting before I do. And I haven't got any of the W10 updates installed on my 7 machine so I won't be nagged or rushed into taking the update.
Seems like a lot of people are just going "It's free, and free is always good, so I'll take it!".
Big mistake to rush in!
Yep the only people in a hury to push win-10 is M$
They are a bit bias to be believed and a lot of people are using tweaks/ workarounds to say if you don't like this or that do this instead of the default way which is not how I test a build or os,
If the default is not as you like and easy to find changes then what really is the point
I'm not going to rely on third parties to shape 10 to my liking or change a lot of how I do things.
7 is perfect out of the box.
My only grip is what M$ updates are attempting to do to 7 in the past 4-5 months.
7 definitely isn't an easy OS to let go of. I had problems with XP when first released, problems with Vista when first released. Granted, these things got sorted out with updates and service packs. But with 7 it just worked for me straight away. Even before SP1 I never really had any real issues that couldn't be fixed easily.
Yeah I always had my updates set to "Check for updates but let me choose" and used to wait a few days, in case of any reported issues, before installing them. But I have to admit, I just used to install all the updates except some optional ones (silverlight, etc).
But lately, I've been checking all the updates on the MS site and googling them to see what they're all about and skipping some updates. It's a shame that we have to do that now.