Win10 Upgrade

[Eric Allen]

When next summer gets here, do we get to keep Win10 as is or do we have
to pay to keep it?

[Robert Carnegie]

On Tuesday, 13 October 2015 21:30:58 UTC+1, Eric Allen wrote:
> When next summer gets here, do we get to keep Win10 as is or do we have
> to pay to keep it?

This may vary between countries - but I believe that
generally, if you upgraded from licensed Windows 7
or later to the full release of 10 then you have a
lifetime licence - the computer's lifetime, that is.
And more updates are now unavoidable.

If you want to re-install in the future then it may be
harder, but
<http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2430164/microsoft-delivers-windows-10-build-10565-with-skype-and-uber-integration>
is saying something about using the original product
key code.

If you're using a preview copy then it may be
expiring already.

[Eric Allen]

On 10/14/2015 5:45 AM, Robert Carnegie wrote:

>
> If you're using a preview copy then it may be
> expiring already.
>

so my upgrade will be permenent since I have a licensed copy of Win8?

[Robert Carnegie]

Yes... at least, specifically, if you used the "Windows Update"
tool, after being "invited", to install Windows 10. It won't
expire, at least as long as they maintain Windows 10, which
they say is forever, and, as long as Windows 10 supports your
model of computer, which is probably forever, too.

But maybe not if you buy a new motherboard.

And, as I say, I don't know how you would do it, if you
wanted to erase Windows from your computer and then install
it again - which some people like to do. They will take
Windows 10 out of Windows Update after a year, I think.

But it is also possible - or it has been - to download
or buy the Windows 10 upgrade on USB or optical media (DVD).
I think /probably/ that copy will work any time after you
get it. You'd better have a good backup copy of that,
so that you don't lose it if one copy is lost, or stops
working.

[Eric Allen]

ok, thanks