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Microsoft Confirms It Won't Offer Free Windows 10 Upgrades To Pirates
An anonymous reader writes: If it sounds too good to be true, then it probably is. All that talk about pirates getting free Windows 10 upgrades? Not happening. For genuine users, the free upgrade to Windows 10 means receiving "ongoing Windows innovation and security updates for free, for the supported lifetime of that device." Terry Myerson, Microsoft's executive vice president of operating systems, has clarified the company's plans were not changing for non-genuine users: "Microsoft and our OEM partners know that many consumers are unwitting victims of piracy, and with Windows 10, we would like all of our customers to move forward with us together. While our free offer to upgrade to Windows 10 will not apply to Non-Genuine Windows devices, and as we've always done, we will continue to offer Windows 10 to customers running devices in a Non-Genuine state."
Add to it: Who needs Windows 10? It's way too early after the release of the decently working Windows 7.
Too frequent OS updates is just causing trouble for users.
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker would destroy civilization.
Microsoft is a greedy corporation and nobody should use their software, IMHO.
Then you should welcome this policy. Microsoft long had a policy of tolerating illegal copying, especially in the third world, since that helped them become the defacto standard, at expense of truly free software. Now that they are cracking down, it will push people to better alternatives. Greed is good, at least in this case.
um....it's been 6 years since windows 7 was released.
You are part of the problem. You don't care about stability, you just want new, new, new.