[a fool in paradise]

Will Austrian be one of them? < /Obama >

[the_individual2014]

Well I better get to crackin on looking at the new OS, maybe taking another MS Certification on top the the MCP cert I have and maybe seeing if I can put in Virtual Box or MS Hyper V to play around with it, my main question are they going to use or allow an windows 7 type GUI on there or not.

[molson209]

Will you get a Product Key with the free Upgrade ?

[American in Israel]

Err, what happened to windows 9?

[OneWingedShark]

Given that it's not a formally proven OS [much less Type-safe OS] and Win 7 is adequate for my needs, why should I upgrade?

[mykroar]

That alot of blue screens.

[RayChuang88]

The most important thing about Windows 10 is that on desktop and "conventional" laptop machines, it goes back to the Desktop user interface by default, not that weird Modern tiled interface that drove users crazy. So far, the response by end users using the public test versions have been pretty positive; I think unlike the unloved Windows 8 (but to a lesser extent Windows 8.1), Windows 10 will be a surprisingly large success for Microsoft and we could see many government and corporate end users upgrade to it (or buy new computers with Windows 10 preinstalled).

[SampleMan]

I liked it better when MS disappointed people in just a handful of languages.

[TomGuy]

XP killed a scanner and printer.

Win7 killed a laser printer and some old DOS programs.

IE10 kills a tabbed browser with editing features not found on other browsers.

I skipped VISTA and Win8.

What hardware and software Win10 kill?

[Organic Panic]

WOW. A ‘free upgrade’ to a new microsoft product. Hmmm. I’ll wait a while. I’ll test out on a windows 8 machine I hardly use. I hate Windows 8. Just hate it.

[Neidermeyer]

the free upgrade to Windows 10 is available for all qualified PCs, genuine and non-genuine.
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So if you have pirated windows 7 you get a licensed copy of 10? If I build a new pc and load a bad copy of 7 I can instantly upgrade?

This is great for India and China...

[ops33]

“Windows 10 will be offered as a free upgrade to customers who have Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1 for the first year after it is released.”

Not sure what this means. Does it mean that if I am a windows 8.1 user I have one year from the release date to upgrade to Windows 10 for free; or does it mean I can use Windows 10 for one year after its release, after which I must pay for it?