Thursday, December 29th 2016
Loophole Lets You Freely Upgrade to Windows 10 After Offer Expiry
Regret not taking advantage of the free upgrade offer to Windows 10? A loophole in the Windows 10 Free Upgrade offer lets you freely upgrade your Windows 8.1 and Windows 7 installations to the latest Windows 10, five months after the free upgrade offer expired. Apparently, Microsoft is keeping the free upgrade offer open to people who use assistive technologies. These could include people who use screen narrators or magnifiers. You can now simply head over to Microsoft Accessibility website, and on checking an undertaking that you do use assistive technologies, avail the free Windows 10 upgrade. Microsoft reportedly isn't checking if you actually use these features.
Source:
TechSpot
33 Comments on Loophole Lets You Freely Upgrade to Windows 10 After Offer Expiry
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ps.: Iirc MS even apologized recently for its malware like win10 upgrade procedure.
Also this is kind of news, the fact that it's still free after about 5 months, I also think some were worried about talking about the accessibility option so that might be why this is so late. I read that off of Guru, so not sure how accurate it was, but it seemed to be less an apology and more of them admitting that they had gone to far.
And the "those two weeks were pretty painful", the first news reports I saw talking about forced installation were around Feb/March, and in May it was confirmed that they had changed the way the upgrade software worked, in June they merely gave a second prompt to cancel the install, and in July they finally stopped the automatic installation, so about Feb-July.
www.guru3d.com/news-story/microsoft’s-agrees-windows-10-upgrade-was-pushed-too-aggressively.html
As long as you match home with home and pro with pro you'll be fine.
"We know we want people to be running Windows 10 from a security perspective, but finding the right balance where you’re not stepping over the line of being too aggressive is something we tried and for a lot of the year I think we got it right, but there was one particular moment in particular where, you know, the red X in the dialog box which typically means you cancel didn’t mean cancel.
And within a couple of hours of that hitting the world, with the listening systems we have we knew that we had gone too far and then, of course, it takes some time to roll out the update that changes that behavior. And those two weeks were pretty painful and clearly a lowlight for us. We learned a lot from it obviously."
like upgrading W7/8.1 with the original RTM release, then upgrading with the RS1 iso.
I run windows 7. Do I really need to upgrade, like, can't I run windows 7 like I did XP for years?