Free Upgrade to Windows 10 in 2019 from Windows 7 and Windows 8.1
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@Mario-Jakovina said in Free Upgrade to Windows 10 in 2019 from Windows 7 and Windows 8.1:
@Dashrender said in Free Upgrade to Windows 10 in 2019 from Windows 7 and Windows 8.1:
What kind of licenses are these?
There are all kinds of licenses on sale Volume, Retail... Those Win7 is Retail, but we can also buy, for example Win10 Enterprise 2016 VL for 65 euros.
@scottalanmiller said in Free Upgrade to Windows 10 in 2019 from Windows 7 and Windows 8.1:
He said he is in the EU. OEM restrictions are illegal there. He can freely transfer licenses of any type. This isn't the US where software sales can be restricted.
This is completly correct - OEM restrictions are illegal, as any restrictions to resell used license.
@Dashrender said in Free Upgrade to Windows 10 in 2019 from Windows 7 and Windows 8.1:
aww - I kinda gathered that from JB's slap down a min ago.. didn't know OEM licensing wasn't legal there.
OEM restriction in original sale is legal I think (you need to buy it with new HW), but after that, the buyer have all rights to resell that license to anybody
I supposed I can understand that. Though when it comes to VL - MS doesn't really have a transfer mechanism, so I'm not sure how you go about transferring those licenses to another owner.
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@Mario-Jakovina said in Free Upgrade to Windows 10 in 2019 from Windows 7 and Windows 8.1:
@scottalanmiller said in Free Upgrade to Windows 10 in 2019 from Windows 7 and Windows 8.1:
That should mean that the original seller (OEM) can sell it to anyone, too. lol
I'm not sure, because the "first sale" did not occur yet.
The judgement of Court of Justice of EU said this:
"An author of software cannot oppose the resale of his ‘used’ licences allowing the
use of his programs downloaded from the internet
The exclusive right of distribution of a copy of a computer program covered by such a licence is
exhausted on its first sale"This is the quoted document/judgement that made precedence in this matter (the case of UsedSoft Gmbh vs Oracle corp.):
https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2012-07/cp120094en.pdfI wonder - does this also mean that Cisco's iOS is transferable? As I understand it - the licensing for Cisco gear state that the OS on said gear does not transfer to the new (secondary, etc) owner of a device. That this non first owner must purchase the software themselves to legally use it.
Scott - or anyone - know if that's still the case?
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@Dashrender said in Free Upgrade to Windows 10 in 2019 from Windows 7 and Windows 8.1:
I supposed I can understand that. Though when it comes to VL - MS doesn't really have a transfer mechanism, so I'm not sure how you go about transferring those licenses to another owner.
I suppose I can understand that.
But that is then technical problem for MS. As I heard, people did not have problems with activating VL licenses (and they can be split also) -
@Dashrender said in Free Upgrade to Windows 10 in 2019 from Windows 7 and Windows 8.1:
I wonder - does this also mean that Cisco's iOS is transferable? As I understand it - the licensing for Cisco gear state that the OS on said gear does not transfer to the new (secondary, etc) owner of a device. That this non first owner must purchase the software themselves to legally use it.
Scott - or anyone - know if that's still the case?That cannot be the case in EU.
And that is huge driving factor for moving more and more licensing from perpetual to subscription based licensing, just as @scottalanmiller mentioned for Office 365 -
@Mario-Jakovina said in Free Upgrade to Windows 10 in 2019 from Windows 7 and Windows 8.1:
@Dashrender said in Free Upgrade to Windows 10 in 2019 from Windows 7 and Windows 8.1:
I wonder - does this also mean that Cisco's iOS is transferable? As I understand it - the licensing for Cisco gear state that the OS on said gear does not transfer to the new (secondary, etc) owner of a device. That this non first owner must purchase the software themselves to legally use it.
Scott - or anyone - know if that's still the case?That cannot be the case in EU.
And that is huge driving factor for moving more and more licensing from perpetual to subscription based licensing, just as @scottalanmiller mentioned for Office 365Wow - I had no idea about this situation in the EU. Toss in the fact of the third world (and china - are they still considered 3rd world?) pirating so much stuff - moving to subscription basically prevents most of that.
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@Dashrender I have not looked at it as an anti-piracy solution - Good point
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@Dashrender said in Free Upgrade to Windows 10 in 2019 from Windows 7 and Windows 8.1:
@Mario-Jakovina said in Free Upgrade to Windows 10 in 2019 from Windows 7 and Windows 8.1:
@scottalanmiller said in Free Upgrade to Windows 10 in 2019 from Windows 7 and Windows 8.1:
That should mean that the original seller (OEM) can sell it to anyone, too. lol
I'm not sure, because the "first sale" did not occur yet.
The judgement of Court of Justice of EU said this:
"An author of software cannot oppose the resale of his ‘used’ licences allowing the
use of his programs downloaded from the internet
The exclusive right of distribution of a copy of a computer program covered by such a licence is
exhausted on its first sale"This is the quoted document/judgement that made precedence in this matter (the case of UsedSoft Gmbh vs Oracle corp.):
https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2012-07/cp120094en.pdfI wonder - does this also mean that Cisco's iOS is transferable? As I understand it - the licensing for Cisco gear state that the OS on said gear does not transfer to the new (secondary, etc) owner of a device. That this non first owner must purchase the software themselves to legally use it.
Scott - or anyone - know if that's still the case?
Yes, would apply there too.
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@Mario-Jakovina said in Free Upgrade to Windows 10 in 2019 from Windows 7 and Windows 8.1:
@Dashrender said in Free Upgrade to Windows 10 in 2019 from Windows 7 and Windows 8.1:
I wonder - does this also mean that Cisco's iOS is transferable? As I understand it - the licensing for Cisco gear state that the OS on said gear does not transfer to the new (secondary, etc) owner of a device. That this non first owner must purchase the software themselves to legally use it.
Scott - or anyone - know if that's still the case?That cannot be the case in EU.
And that is huge driving factor for moving more and more licensing from perpetual to subscription based licensing, just as @scottalanmiller mentioned for Office 365Yeah, makes that problem kind of just disappear.
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This is still going?
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@WrCombs said in Free Upgrade to Windows 10 in 2019 from Windows 7 and Windows 8.1:
This is still going?
holy crap.what are you holy crapping?
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@Dashrender said in Free Upgrade to Windows 10 in 2019 from Windows 7 and Windows 8.1:
@WrCombs said in Free Upgrade to Windows 10 in 2019 from Windows 7 and Windows 8.1:
This is still going?
holy crap.what are you holy crapping?
That this conversation that stem'd from My conversation is still going?
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It was necro-posted.. so sure.
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@Dashrender said in Free Upgrade to Windows 10 in 2019 from Windows 7 and Windows 8.1:
It was necro-posted.. so sure.
Not really. barely more than a month old and a perfectly reasonable question for clarification.
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Meh
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Wow. Glad I found this post as our company does not have enough resources to purchase W10 licenses for all our PCs in our network. Has anyone else here went ahead and used the methods above to obtain a free license key? If so, do you recommend doing this for 100+ PCs?
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@lucylu Please keep in mind, this topic is about a path to install Windows 10, you must make sure your licensing is compliant also. Installation and licensing are two very different items.
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@JasGot said in Free Upgrade to Windows 10 in 2019 from Windows 7 and Windows 8.1:
@lucylu Please keep in mind, this topic is about a path to install Windows 10, you must make sure your licensing is compliant also. Installation and licensing are two very different items.
of course - but Scott's claim above is that the Win10 upgrade site basically - it fully does in Scott's option - does grant a valid license to the user - assuming the user has Windows 7 or 8 or 8.1 on their machine first.
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@Dashrender said in Free Upgrade to Windows 10 in 2019 from Windows 7 and Windows 8.1:
assuming the user has Windows 7 or 8 or 8.1 on their machine first
And it is properly licensed. There's really only one way to say it: Make sure you are properly licensed PRIOR to embarking on this journey.
But not Windows 8.
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@JasGot said in Free Upgrade to Windows 10 in 2019 from Windows 7 and Windows 8.1:
@Dashrender said in Free Upgrade to Windows 10 in 2019 from Windows 7 and Windows 8.1:
assuming the user has Windows 7 or 8 or 8.1 on their machine first
And it is properly licensed. There's really only one way to say it: Make sure you are properly licensed PRIOR to embarking on this journey.
But not Windows 8.
As far as I know, anyone with an 8.0 license can upgrade to 8.1 at no cost. Then move to 10.
You're right - you have to be properly licensed on 7 or 8.1
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@lucylu said in Free Upgrade to Windows 10 in 2019 from Windows 7 and Windows 8.1:
Wow. Glad I found this post as our company does not have enough resources to purchase W10 licenses for all our PCs in our network. Has anyone else here went ahead and used the methods above to obtain a free license key? If so, do you recommend doing this for 100+ PCs?
It's not a new license key, it's making your existing license key into a Windows 10 valid one. It's still the old key that you had before. And yes, you'd definitely use this for any number of machines, it's not limited in some way to just small numbers at one site. In fact, purchasing Windows 10 licenses if you already have free upgrade rights would be pretty wasteful.
