i think so. if you have a legit key, you should be able to do that. however it's still early to tell.

uh? if you're looking for confirmation on upgrade eligibility from current windows to w10, i guess it has been announced a few months ago. all w7 and 8.x users are eligible for the free w10 upgrade plan in its first year of release.

as for your question about preserving activations after upgrade, i believe it can be done. what we are still not sure is how it is done. also, answers to questions like how much do they charge? is there a discount for early adopters? still needs time to confirm. they might improve the current upgrade paths (which they kind of failed miserably at early stages) to make it easier.

so just wait and see

i think it's the news about the announcement that w10 might be released earlier (late summer or early falls).

currently it's still some distance from ready. some merging of ui happened but that's about it. recent trends also show that manufacturers are releasing drivers more frequently than usual.

oh

life-long? i don't think that's necessary haha you can always call ms when the activations failed.

alternatively, the way i preserve activations is to create system images. i do this whenever there are windows updates, so that when i do restore, the os will be activated, everything is in place, and i don't need to go through updates again and again. as long as i don't have much key hardware changes (especially mobo and cpu), this works well.

hdd and ram are fine, doesn't affect activations. you can change to whatever you like

just ran windows updates, and got new geforce drivers installed (349.90).



now print as pdf is native in w10.



edit: downloading the esd of build 10041 now. by the way it's said the the final rtm version will be 10800. it's still a long way to go i guess.

This post has been edited by horns: Mar 19 2015, 11:13 AM

after conversion of the esd to wim, the installation was successful. now running build 10041.

will have some tests later. i am not sure why they said this build is the fastest of all.

This post has been edited by horns: Mar 19 2015, 01:13 PM

as always thanks a lot for the direct links

now the news regarding upgrade paths for w10 from various windows versions, http://fossbytes.com/windows-10-hardware-r...-upgrade-paths/

and there is a catch regarding the oss pirates get free upgrades, http://www.engadget.com/2015/03/19/microso...upgrade-policy/

what's your laptop? if it can run w8 it's likely to work fine. i have used my laptops with w7 (stock), 8, 8.1 u3, and then this wp 10 tp.

maybe it's too early to comment anything cosmetic yet at this early stage. it's a technology preview.

just use whatever you feel comfortable.

oh. sorry but what do you mean by 'laptop software'? afaik i don't think msi will lock its machines that way. (i.e. fixing them to a particular os)

this is just a driver/proprietary software compatibility issues. check out and update your bios/drivers/software here. http://www.msi.com/support/nb/GP60.html (please read and understand the upgrade notes carefully to avoid issues) there are drivers for w8.1 provided at that page. (i believe the software that you mentioned is called scm)

btw your laptop is not that old yet. my g55 is even older. and it runs w10tp without issues.

good luck

yeah it's a painful process if you go factory reset mode.

you should try to use windows built-in tool to create a system image instead. the best part of a system image is that it is a snapshot of your current os, software, games, files, and settings, in their most up-to-date form as of the time of its creation. this means when you do a restore, you don't need to go through the whole upgrade path, plus further windows updating, driver/software patching, etc. it's already in the working form, with everything ready to go.

in your case, you should just create one after making sure everything works and updated in w8.1. it's very time saving, and the restore process should be much shorter.

It will expire. By then you should switch to the release.

No idea. Maybe you can set your computer time to the future (without connected to internet) and see what happen. For safety's sake unplug all other drives and use only boot drive to test.

the late summer early fall of US.. it should be around September. let's hope it's earlier lol

nice thanks for sharing!

do you mind sharing about what caused the 'so unstable' instability? for common use i don't feel anything weird about 349.90.

thanks for the pointers. you're playing games that's nice. i haven't played any on it. i believe there are still plenty of things that game developers have to do to make the games work nicer in w10.

i am playing games with w8.1, just recently updated to 349.90 via windows update. so far so good.

i guess later on we will have all esd files ready. currently they cannot be downloaded via MS links.

i just managed to grab the enterprise version of esd via mega. now trying to grab retail version via windows update. (at 90%)

edit: build 10049 installed. project spartan is a minimalist web browser.





This post has been edited by horns: Mar 31 2015, 05:10 PM

Well.. It's really a minimalist for now.

windows update can sometimes fail but it works. Just give it a few tries. If you wanna get 10049, just set in advanced options to fast ring.

oh. i am not sure what happened, but mine is working fine here. it did get stuck from time to time, but it will resume after that.

all sorts of ui integrations and moving-around are still happening at this stage. for common usage i find it's getting better (things are making sense now compared to the last few builds)