Windows 10 is a very exciting operating system. With all of the upgrades from 8.1, like use of the Hololens, a personal assistant that is like Siri but way cooler. I mean she is named after the AI in Halo for god?s sakes, the ability to stream Xbox one games and much more!
Well last week an announcement was made that in the first year of Windows 10 there will be a free upgrade for everyone that has a copy of Windows 7 and 8/8.1.?? Sound good right? Well it gets better. They will be also offering the upgrade to pirates.
No not the sailors with the eye patches, hooked hands, and boats. But those who have a non-genuine copy of Windows 7 or 8/8.1 not obtained legally. So there you have all these pirate rubbing their hands together getting ready to be able to go from non-genuine to genuine in a snap or :
Well from the looks of it Microsoft isn?t trying to trap you or give you free software for that matter. In an interview with Terry Myerson, Microsoft?s operating system chief from Reuters they claim ?we are upgrading all qualified PCs, genuine and non-genuine, to Windows 10.?
However with Windows 10 although non-genuine PCs will be able to upgrade to Windows 10 but the upgrade will not change the state of your license. So this means non-genuine Windows is not published by Microsoft. It is not properly licenses, or supported by Microsoft or any trusted partner. If the PC was non-genuine or mislicensed before the upgrade, the PC will still be considered non-genuine or mislicensed after the upgrade.
So it looks like you will get Windows 10 but it won?t be genuine all of a sudden.
Now you may ask yourself why Microsoft wouldn?t just stick it to those people who are non-genuine. They could certainly disable non-genuine versions of the Windows OS from running altogether but it seems the company would then run some risks. They may lose people who have just not activated their software or people did pay after learning it was not legit just to get rid of the non-genuine message and black desktop.
We are all looking forward to the release of Windows 10 which is due out this summer.