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
You don't need to use the Microsoft account as your profile on so you can still bypass logging in at setup and creating a local account. All you gotta do to link your 10 account to your MS install (if you choose not to use your MS account as your profile), is to simply do the following:
- Click Start
- Click Settings
- Click Update and Security
- Click Activation
- As or with Admin permissions, click Add Account
- Login with MS Account credentials.
Then you should see a message that reads: More info: www.windowscentral.com/how-re-activate-windows-10-after-hardware-change , www.tenforums.com/tutorials/55398-microsoft-account-link-digital-license-windows-10-pc.html , www.ghacks.net/2016/08/15/link-microsoft-account-windows-10-license/You're good for awhile.. if you so choose to stick with Win7. Myself, I am running Win10 (MS Insider Program) and have been for a couple of years. Since mid 2014 anywho.. There is no turning back for me. Have all 3 of my rigs all upgraded to Win10...
I think Microsoft is planning two major updates to Win10 in 2017, so over the next few years Win10 is likely to change a lot, may get better, may get worse, may just be more of the same, DX12 is still in it's infancy, so plenty of time to wait, and technically you never have to upgrade, you would just be stuck with security issues that may come up after support ends, and software and hardware compatibility issues.
support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/13853/windows-lifecycle-fact-sheet
its not possible to track windows 7 content so they want everyone to have windows 10 so they can track everything that termed as features in windows 10 like contacts etc etc
This one isn't really some big conspiracy because they literally told us it was happening.