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Microsoft temporarily suspends new sign-ups for the Windows Insider Program

Posted on July 23, 2015

A while back Microsoft announced that participants in the Windows Insider Program will be eligible to receive a free copy of Windows 10 after its July 29 release. Well, it now appears they are having second thoughts.

After Microsoft made the announcement detailing that very generous Windows Insider bonus, thousands of users took Microsoft at their Word. They quickly began signing up for the Windows Insider Program just so they could qualify for a free copy of Windows 10 to install on machines that otherwise wouldn’t qualify for the free upgrade. [Read more…]

Q&A: If I upgrade my PC to Windows 10 for free, will it stay free forever?

Posted on July 20, 2015

Question from Earnest H.: Hi Rick. I’ve heard that I’ll be able to upgrade my Dell computer from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10 for free at the end of the month. I have also heard conflicting stories whether or not it will remain free forever.

Some of the things I’ve read say if you qualify for the free upgrade, Windows 10 will only be free for the first year. After that you’ll have to pay a monthly subscription fee to Microsoft in order to keep on using it. But then I’ve heard other people say that the free Windows 10 upgrades will stay free forever.

Can you clear this up for me once and for all? I’d love to replace Windows 8.1 with Windows 10, but not if I’ll end up having to pay for it after the first year is up.

Rick’s answer: [Read more…]

Great news: You might be able to buy Windows 10 on a USB Flash Drive

Posted on July 6, 2015

If you have ever installed Windows from an optical disc, you surely know how slow the process is. That’s because by their very nature, even the fastest optical drive is a slug compared to virtually any form of solid state storage.

We have been able to download Windows over the Internet for some time now, but before we could use the software we still had to burn the ISO image onto either a DVD or USB Flash Drive.

Regardless of which type of media we chose to use for our installation medium, it was still a hassle getting the software onto onto it. And if we chose to put it on a DVD, actually installing Windows onto a PC was still as slow as molasses on a cold winter day.

Well, it appears that we just might have a much simpler and faster option for installing Windows beginning with the official release of Windows 10. [Read more…]

Microsoft is planning to roll out Windows 10 in ‘waves’ beginning on July 29

Posted on July 2, 2015

A few weeks ago I wrote a couple of blog posts about the upcoming release of Windows 10.

The first post explained how Microsoft is planning to release Windows 10 to the public on July 29.

The second post explained that the Windows 10 upgrade will be free for PCs running Windows 7 or 8.1.

A few weeks later Microsoft told us that Windows XP and Vista users can also upgrade to Windows 10 for free by jumping through a hoop or two.

Well, today they announced that not everyone will receive the Windows 10 upgrade on July 29 as we had been led to believe. Instead, Windows 10 will be rolled out to various classes of users in “waves”. [Read more…]

Windows XP & Vista users will now be able to upgrade to Windows 10 for free! Read this to find out how.

Posted on June 26, 2015

Microsoft told us a while back that Windows 10 will be a free upgrade for computers running either Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 during the first year after its release.

Understandably, that announcement left many Windows XP and Vista users feeling left out and upset. If you happen to be one of them, I have some good news for you… [Read more…]