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The only downside...well _a_ downside to this: I repurposed my Vsphere machine for games. Do you have any idea how long it takes to update 4 year old Windows 7 install media enough that it'll take SP1, IE11 and qualify for the win10 upgrade? (about 350 patches and 6-7 hours)

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You probably don't need to bother with 'reserving' your copy of W10 via the 'Get Windows 10' app. I've been told a fresh, unpatched install of W7 SP1 will upgrade just fine if you use an ISO.

You can download the Microsoft Creation Tool and upgrade that way. It's super easy and only requires the W7. I'm not even sure if SP1 is required.

FWIW, as part of trying to get some crap Sony laptop drivers working with Windows 10 I installed a clean copy of Windows 8.0, didn't install any updates, then upgraded to Windows 10 via an iso loaded on a USB stick. I didn't even have it connected to a network until well after Windows 10 was installed.

I had already performed the Windows 10 upgrade once on the computer, so it was registered. I would guess if you're doing it for the first time you may have to activate the copy of Win 7/8 first, but maybe just having a valid product key is enough?

You don't need to go through all of that, as long as you have an activated copy of Win7 you can pop in a Windows 10 DVD or USB flash drive and run the upgrade.

Now imagine installing Windows 10 after 4 years, since this is the "last version of Windows ever". All them updates !

Since Windows 8, Windows has used "virtual images" of the Operating System and has had the ability to rather than apply a bunch incremental updates instead just "build jump" to the higher build. You see this somewhat often in Windows Phone (given the way OEMs test and hold back phone updates, nearly every update seemed to be a "build jump") and up until recently not quite often in Windows. (8.1 and 8.1 Update 1, the "service packs" appeared to be "build jumps", but to my knowledge that's about it as far as 8 has used it in its servicing lifetime thus far.) With Windows 10 insiders have already seen a lot of "build jumps", particularly in the last few weeks leading up to the Windows 10 launch. I've got a feeling (and this is entirely supposition on my part) that one of the things we Insiders saw a Preview of and may not have realized it is that Windows 10 itself as a part of the "last version" thing will start to do a lot more "build jump" rollups of updates, even more often than the "service packs" of 8.

This article is partly on this very subject: http://venturebeat.com/2015/08/13/how-microsoft-built-and-is...

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10058346

Install? PCs of the future will have Windows 10 in onboard NAND flash (or futuristic equivalent) -- and no other OS will be supported.

They will come with the promise of legacy support without the necessary switches to implement said support.

Haha, and that's if you have Windows 7 install media. A previous machine of mine was upgraded from Vista to 7. There's no way to reïnstall 7 on it without reïnstalling Vista first. 10 would be a nightmare.

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