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Free “assistive technologies” Win10 upgrade going away on Sunday
Just a reminder for those of you who really want Windows 10, but still have Win7 or 8.1….
I figure there must be two of you…
The “assistive technologies” free upgrade from Win7 or 8.1 to 10 will apparently be pulled on December 31. I say “apparently” because, well, Microsoft. The end of life for this particular free upgrade path was announced/discovered back in October.
As I’ve mentioned many times before, if you upgrade a machine to Win10, Microsoft keeps track of that fact, and you’ll be able to use Win10 on that machine forever (to a first approximation), even if you revert it to Win7.
Still no word on whether Win7 and 8.1 keys will continue to activate Win10 installs.
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Free Windows 10 upgrade path disappears on Dec. 31
One free upgrade path – the “assistive technologies” approach — will go away on December 31, according to one sentence on one web page posted sometime in the past ten days.
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