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Confirmed: Win10 free upgrade ends July 29, as does the much-maligned “Get Windows 10” campaign
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Guest“The free upgrade promotion is ending on July 29 and we encourage all of our customers to take advantage of it while it is still active.”
I don’t believe a word of it. It sounds like a typical marketing strategy: “Quick, get it now, before they run out”. Which is quickly followed after the offer end date by “Due to overwhelming customer demand, we have decided to extend the offer period until…”
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GuestI do believe the M/S but only in their exact words. I would not be surprised if there would still be a few forced upgraded to W10 with M/S claiming that the customers had arranged for it beforehand (and it would be free).
Anyway, I have two concerns about this news. The first is that how much they would ramp up the campaign, either in overt or subtle ways depending on their tactics, prior to July 29. The second is if they actually remove GWX stuff, they would put in something damaging to the software in a long run in patches, both out of spite and to ratch up the sale of new computers.
I don’t trust M/S to be graceful and adult. I think that Win7 users would have to be careful about the future patches even more. Maybe even win 8.1 users as well but M/S doesn’t seem to have it out for 8.1 as they do for the Win7.
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GuestI hate MS since NSA scandal, and I even more hate it for forcing people to upgrade to “NSA OS”.
I’ll stick with W7, and my next stop is “ReactOS” or Linux. for real.ttps://www.privacytools.io/#win10
> Don’t use Windows 10 – It’s a privacy nightmareIf all of you considering upgrade to W10 from W7, stop it.
W10 leak data even you disable these settings, which is confirmed by many people. -
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GuestAnyway I am still excited that the reign of WIn 10 trying to force us win 7 users to upgrade will end the day after my birthday. 🙂
But still if I wanted a win 10 laptop I wait until next year-THIS YEAR I am saving my money for a PS4 so when Kingdom Hearts 3 comes out-I will be ready and get Ratchet and clank too on ps4
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GuestI honestly don’t see this as a problem one way or the other. I am currently using Windows 7 x64 Ultimate SP1. When Win 8.1 was delivered, I saw features that I thought were worthwhile, so I did a full backup, and updated to the new OS. After living with it for a few months, I decided that I gave it a fair shake, but Win 7 was my OS of choice, so I did a restore from my backup, got it caught up, and that was that. To date, I have avoided all Win 10 related KB’s, turned off telemetry, etc., and I am in no hurry to be an early adopter of Win 10, but….., free is free, and as we go down the road, I certainly would like to have the option to move to Win 10 if and when I think it’s a good fit. So, again, I’ll do a full backup (actually 2), and take advantage of the free offer by installing Win 10. I’ll then backup that install, save my copy, and do a restore of Win 7. The bottom line here, at least for me, is that this really is not a problem, or a source of internal debate, it’s an opportunity with “No harm, no foul” status. I reckon that’s a good thing, YMMV.
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