Free Upgrade to Windows 10 in 2019 from Windows 7 and Windows 8.1
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@Dashrender I have not looked at it as an anti-piracy solution - Good point
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@Dashrender said in Free Upgrade to Windows 10 in 2019 from Windows 7 and Windows 8.1:
@Mario-Jakovina said in Free Upgrade to Windows 10 in 2019 from Windows 7 and Windows 8.1:
@scottalanmiller said in Free Upgrade to Windows 10 in 2019 from Windows 7 and Windows 8.1:
That should mean that the original seller (OEM) can sell it to anyone, too. lol
I'm not sure, because the "first sale" did not occur yet.
The judgement of Court of Justice of EU said this:
"An author of software cannot oppose the resale of his ‘used’ licences allowing the
use of his programs downloaded from the internet
The exclusive right of distribution of a copy of a computer program covered by such a licence is
exhausted on its first sale"This is the quoted document/judgement that made precedence in this matter (the case of UsedSoft Gmbh vs Oracle corp.):
https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2012-07/cp120094en.pdfI wonder - does this also mean that Cisco's iOS is transferable? As I understand it - the licensing for Cisco gear state that the OS on said gear does not transfer to the new (secondary, etc) owner of a device. That this non first owner must purchase the software themselves to legally use it.
Scott - or anyone - know if that's still the case?
Yes, would apply there too.
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@Mario-Jakovina said in Free Upgrade to Windows 10 in 2019 from Windows 7 and Windows 8.1:
@Dashrender said in Free Upgrade to Windows 10 in 2019 from Windows 7 and Windows 8.1:
I wonder - does this also mean that Cisco's iOS is transferable? As I understand it - the licensing for Cisco gear state that the OS on said gear does not transfer to the new (secondary, etc) owner of a device. That this non first owner must purchase the software themselves to legally use it.
Scott - or anyone - know if that's still the case?That cannot be the case in EU.
And that is huge driving factor for moving more and more licensing from perpetual to subscription based licensing, just as @scottalanmiller mentioned for Office 365Yeah, makes that problem kind of just disappear.
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This is still going?
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@WrCombs said in Free Upgrade to Windows 10 in 2019 from Windows 7 and Windows 8.1:
This is still going?
holy crap.what are you holy crapping?
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@Dashrender said in Free Upgrade to Windows 10 in 2019 from Windows 7 and Windows 8.1:
@WrCombs said in Free Upgrade to Windows 10 in 2019 from Windows 7 and Windows 8.1:
This is still going?
holy crap.what are you holy crapping?
That this conversation that stem'd from My conversation is still going?
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It was necro-posted.. so sure.
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@Dashrender said in Free Upgrade to Windows 10 in 2019 from Windows 7 and Windows 8.1:
It was necro-posted.. so sure.
Not really. barely more than a month old and a perfectly reasonable question for clarification.
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Meh
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Wow. Glad I found this post as our company does not have enough resources to purchase W10 licenses for all our PCs in our network. Has anyone else here went ahead and used the methods above to obtain a free license key? If so, do you recommend doing this for 100+ PCs?
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@lucylu Please keep in mind, this topic is about a path to install Windows 10, you must make sure your licensing is compliant also. Installation and licensing are two very different items.
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@JasGot said in Free Upgrade to Windows 10 in 2019 from Windows 7 and Windows 8.1:
@lucylu Please keep in mind, this topic is about a path to install Windows 10, you must make sure your licensing is compliant also. Installation and licensing are two very different items.
of course - but Scott's claim above is that the Win10 upgrade site basically - it fully does in Scott's option - does grant a valid license to the user - assuming the user has Windows 7 or 8 or 8.1 on their machine first.
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@Dashrender said in Free Upgrade to Windows 10 in 2019 from Windows 7 and Windows 8.1:
assuming the user has Windows 7 or 8 or 8.1 on their machine first
And it is properly licensed. There's really only one way to say it: Make sure you are properly licensed PRIOR to embarking on this journey.
But not Windows 8.
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@JasGot said in Free Upgrade to Windows 10 in 2019 from Windows 7 and Windows 8.1:
@Dashrender said in Free Upgrade to Windows 10 in 2019 from Windows 7 and Windows 8.1:
assuming the user has Windows 7 or 8 or 8.1 on their machine first
And it is properly licensed. There's really only one way to say it: Make sure you are properly licensed PRIOR to embarking on this journey.
But not Windows 8.
As far as I know, anyone with an 8.0 license can upgrade to 8.1 at no cost. Then move to 10.
You're right - you have to be properly licensed on 7 or 8.1
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@lucylu said in Free Upgrade to Windows 10 in 2019 from Windows 7 and Windows 8.1:
Wow. Glad I found this post as our company does not have enough resources to purchase W10 licenses for all our PCs in our network. Has anyone else here went ahead and used the methods above to obtain a free license key? If so, do you recommend doing this for 100+ PCs?
It's not a new license key, it's making your existing license key into a Windows 10 valid one. It's still the old key that you had before. And yes, you'd definitely use this for any number of machines, it's not limited in some way to just small numbers at one site. In fact, purchasing Windows 10 licenses if you already have free upgrade rights would be pretty wasteful.
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Two weeks left for those trying to go from Windows 7 to Windows 10. The Free Upgrade depends on the OS being current, remember.
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@scottalanmiller said in Free Upgrade to Windows 10 in 2019 from Windows 7 and Windows 8.1:
Two weeks left for those trying to go from Windows 7 to Windows 10. The Free Upgrade depends on the OS being current, remember.
Do you think those people who have not upgraded by the 14th will be UNABLE to install and activate from their Windows 7 or 8.1 key?
Notice how I didn't ask about any licensing issues. I already know that answer.
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@JasGot said in Free Upgrade to Windows 10 in 2019 from Windows 7 and Windows 8.1:
@scottalanmiller said in Free Upgrade to Windows 10 in 2019 from Windows 7 and Windows 8.1:
Two weeks left for those trying to go from Windows 7 to Windows 10. The Free Upgrade depends on the OS being current, remember.
Do you think those people who have not upgraded by the 14th will be UNABLE to install and activate from their Windows 7 or 8.1 key?
Notice how I didn't ask about any licensing issues. I already know that answer.
Likely the ability to upgrade won't change, if there was time/date detection, we'd already have heard about it.
