Licence type

[harviak]

Hi guys,

 

I have read many articles about this update but still I havent found a clear statement about this kind of upgrade.

 

I have a legit win 8.1. Its not OEM version but key that can be transfered to other PC if necessary ( motherboard change etc. ) but still only 1 PC should have this licence. I think is called box or retail copy if Im right.

 

According to the statements that I read there is mentioned that if i upgrade to windows 10 it will be constantly updated to the lifetime of the device. 

But still I have that version that can be tranfered to other PC which is a little confusing right now because I dont know if the upgrade will change the licence and bound it to current device or it will stay the same that if I change the motherboard for example in about 2 years I can use that key again.

 

thanks.

[Seahorsepip Veteran]

I think the win 10 upgrade would be linked to the license key, so any device you activate with your win 8.1 license key can always upgrade to win 10 in the future.

[+Fahim S. MVC]

I think it is the opposite.  You will still be able to move the 8.1 license, but the 10 license will be fixed.

So if you move to a new machine, you can take the 8.1 license across have to buy another 10 upgrade license (although you would need to uninstall both 8.1 and 10 from the older machine).

 

I don't know, just speculating as to what I think would make sense.

[Seahorsepip Veteran]

Let get this straight: if I was to replace the mainboard, I would need to install win 8 then upgrade again? What about after the first year?

After you've upgraded once with a windows 8 license key, the key will be listed as a win 10 key I suppose. So you can't activate win 10 directly with it(Though I'm going to look into it at RTM release since it might be possible) but you can upgrade with the 8 license key anytime to win 10 since it's a white listed or whatever it will be called key.

 

As example the following win 8.1 iso: http://seapip.com/win8/ accepts win 8 and 8.1 keys, home and pro keys and even upgrade keys. So I might be able to do the same with the win 10 iso I hope