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On Friday [June 19, 2015], Microsoft described a way for anyone to get Windows 10 for free: activated, genuine, and updated forever. We wrote at the time that we expected the company to do a volte-face and back away from this promise. Lo and behold, it has come to pass.
Since Friday, the blog post describing the changes to the Windows Insider preview program has been silently updated. Previously it said that signed up members of the Insider Program running a preview version would "receive the Windows 10 final release build and remain activated." Now it says only that they will "receive the Windows 10 final release build." The activation wording has been removed. The company has also added a "clarifying" sentence: "It's important to note that only people running Genuine Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 can upgrade to Windows 10 as part of the free upgrade offer." This is in contrast to what the company said on Friday, when Microsoft's Gabe Aul confirmed that upgraded preview copies would be Genuine.
So what does this all mean? The main thing it means is that we're not expecting clear communication from Microsoft about licensing any time soon. We don't imagine that there will be any technical difference: we expect that as previously described, Windows 10 installed via the preview will activate and show as genuine. It should be fully functional (no "non-genuine" watermark on the desktop or anything like that), and essentially indistinguishable from any other Windows 10 installation.
Original Submission
(Score: 2) by TK on Monday June 22 2015, @03:38PM
Does this mean the update button on my toolbar in Win 7 will go away. It's a miniscule thing, but it bugs the crap out of me for some reason.
The fleas have smaller fleas, upon their backs to bite them, and those fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 22 2015, @03:57PM
You can get rid of it by dropping to the command line and entering deltree *.* then sudo install linux
(Score: 5, Funny) by TK on Monday June 22 2015, @04:49PM
I tried that, but now my printer won't work and I taste copper. Is this because of systemd?
The fleas have smaller fleas, upon their backs to bite them, and those fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 22 2015, @11:18PM
now my printer won't work
Some folks have learned that giving good money to vendors with poor support should be avoided. [openprinting.org]
systemd
Some folks have also learned that that isn't required either. [without-systemd.org]
HTH HAND
-- gewg_
(Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Monday June 22 2015, @04:32PM
Drag it onto the up arrow next to the notification area.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 22 2015, @07:16PM
Despite the other suggestions, according to a friend of mine if you REALLY want to get rid of that upgrade button but keep the OS itself "If you're running Windows 7/8 and see a little icon in your system tray that looks like the Windows 10 logo, that's thanks to Microsoft update KB3035583, which installs nagware for upgrading to Windows 10. If you don't want that shit, uninstall KB3035583, and then hide the update in Windows Update (where it is scuzzily marked as an "Important Update")."