{"id":50065,"date":"2015-01-21T18:43:41","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T18:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=50065"},"modified":"2015-01-21T18:43:41","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T18:43:41","slug":"free-upgrades-windows-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/free-upgrades-windows-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Upgrades to Windows 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/br><\/p>\n<h4>Free Upgrades to Windows 10<\/h4>\n<p>Today, Microsoft announced plans to offer free upgrades to the new Windows 10 OS for those running Windows 7, Windows 8.1, or Windows Phone 8.1.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<strong>Windows 10 will be a free upgrade for Windows 7 and 8.1 users<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft&#8217;s Windows 10 event is just getting started, and it sounds like the company is eager to make it as easy and cheap as possible for those running older versions of Windows to upgrade. Terry Myerson just announced on stage that, for the first year after Windows 10 launches, any device running Windows 7, Windows 8.1, or Windows Phone 8.1 will be able to upgrade to the latest version of MIcrosoft&#8217;s OS \u2014 for free. How exactly this program will work isn&#8217;t clear just yet \u2014 it&#8217;ll certainly be subject to some hardware requirements, particularly for older machines running Windows 7. But a simplified upgrade path will likely do a lot to help Windows 10 adoption \u2014 rather than dealing with a number of different versions of Windows and different upgrade costs, most consumers will simply take this free update and enjoy running Microsoft&#8217;s latest.<br \/>&#8212;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2015\/1\/21\/7866679\/windows-10-will-be-a-free-upgrade-for-windows-7-and-8-1-users\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2015\/1\/21\/7866679\/windows-10-will-be-a-free-upgrade-for-windows-7-and-8-1-users<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script height=\"370px\" width=\"658px\" src=\"http:\/\/player.ooyala.com\/iframe.js#pbid=dcc84e41db014454b08662a766057e2b&#038;ec=dnNTl3cjqkTwW9KE4bKcen48lXi6U8dl\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Microsoft announced plans to offer free upgrades to the new Windows 10 OS for those running Windows 7, Windows 8.1, or Windows Phone 8.1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":50071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[183],"tags":[125,4721,18,538],"class_list":["post-50065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tips","tag-microsoft","tag-windows-10","tag-windows-7","tag-windows-8"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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