{"id":49306,"date":"2015-01-21T19:12:25","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T19:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/21\/windows-10-free-for-all.html"},"modified":"2015-01-21T19:12:25","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T19:12:25","slug":"windows-10-free-for-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/21\/windows-10-free-for-all.html","title":{"rendered":"Windows 10 free-for-all?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;m actually quite happy with Win7 at the moment, but a free upgrade to  Windows skipping-9-right-to-10?  That might be tempting, if my hardware will handle it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2015\/01\/windows-10-free-for-all-windows-8-1-and-windows-7-users-for-first-year'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/0xUUzeawZwdRoPWOktzYw81Y_Cu_IgIj0J5tqjVnQsVGDeEE--C1T2p_DdVi5Zey7CVoTGY2s46p0oMyUOrF_dUS5w2Tw7oSHwPpoZvGbGq-u5K0gZDYtbmgcC8E2YYBbfZcljcuLxhOQr54Hm95u3yS-ehy5w=w506-h303-p' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2015\/01\/windows-10-free-for-all-windows-8-1-and-windows-7-users-for-first-year'>Windows 10 free for all Windows 8.1 and 7 users for first year after release<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nMicrosoft is thinking of &#8220;Windows as a service.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/8S954sYPFkn'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;m actually quite happy with Win7 at the moment, but a free upgrade to Windows skipping-9-right-to-10? That might be tempting, if my hardware will handle it. Windows 10 free for all Windows 8.1 and 7 users for first year after release Microsoft is thinking of &#8220;Windows as a service.&#8221; View on Google+<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7588,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/01\/30\/naming_windows.html","url_meta":{"origin":49306,"position":0},"title":"Naming Windows","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 30-Jan-05 4:45pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Micro$oft has agreed that if it names the Windows Media Player-less version of Windows \"Windows Wimpy\" (okay, actually \"Windows Reduced Media Edition\"), it might, um, discourage folks from buying it....","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Hi-Tech&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Hi-Tech","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/hi-tech"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":51996,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/30\/waiting-on-windows-10.html","url_meta":{"origin":49306,"position":1},"title":"Waiting on Windows 10","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 30-Jul-15 10:33am","format":false,"excerpt":"This is probably the most negative article I've seen to date on Win10, and even it just says \"Wait a few updates for things to gel.\" Which, honestly, was my plan already. 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