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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
The free upgrade "ended" 4 years ago, but by all accounts I've seen, it seems that provided your hardware is compatible, the official Microsoft Download Tool to create the Windows 10 installation media still works, and that upgrades for legitimate, activated copies of Windows 7, 8, 8.1 are still working. Reports as late as Sept 2020 indicate that users are still getting free, activated upgrades to Windows 10 using Microsoft's official update path.
I'm not suggesting that people should do so, of course. Heaven forbid that I should get in the way of a good pout/rant about the evils of the latest version of the Windows OS.  |
I do encourage people to do so... the *entire* problem is that for many people, their hardware is not compatible, and they need to buy new hardware which is not free. This is pretty pout-worthy.
I'm less sympathetic to "I really depend on custom software drivers for peripherals that only support Windows 7".
People should vote with their wallet and support devices that have open-source drivers, and as a begrudging second place, support responsible vendors that don't go out of business and only take a mere half a decade to support the most common desktop OS version on the planet.