Final Free Windows 10 Upgrade Offer

So I guess it means if you want to keep Windows 10 after January 1st you will have to pay like MS has done before..............

 

I am talking about MS deciding you now need to pay like they did with 365..............

 

Microsoft has traditionally allowed parts swapping as long as it was able to verify the same computer was connected. Motherboards never caused a licensing issue in my experience. I've swapped out motherboard and video card at the same time and my license was fine. The desktop I built from scratch originally had a purchased copy of Windows 8.1 installed and was upgraded early on in the Win 10 rollout.

If you build from scratch, then some version of Windows has to be installed to get running the first time. After that there's a limit as to the number of hardware components you can change at once without falling back to "new computer" status.

Fixing Windows 10 activation problems after a hardware upgrade

How to re-activate Windows 10 after a hardware change

 

If you didn't set a log on password
just leave password field blank

 

win10 is really slow and it updates a lot

 

When this machine quits then my next will be a Linux based laptop. I have run out of steam with Windows. I didn't leave DOS until a certain research software I used no longer supported DOS, left CD's and went all internet. For me, DRDOS with WordStar 5.5 and Lotus 123 was the ultimate, but, I am an old guy and essentially curmudgeonly.
PS: hoping for an early decision to quit by this Surface Pro.

 

Look who's getting linux too!

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Microsoft announced on Monday a new technology called Azure Sphere, a new system for securing the tiny processors that power smart appliances, connected toys, and other gadgets.

We'll get to the specifics in a moment, but here's the really notable part: To power Azure Sphere, Microsoft has developed its own, custom version of Linux — the free, open source operating system that Microsoft once considered the single biggest threat to the supremacy of its Windows software.

"After 43 years, this is the first day that we are announcing, and will be distributing, a custom Linux kernel," Microsoft President Brad Smith said on stage at an event in San Francisco."