Why would I want to pre "register" Windows 10 anyway?

Jonas Klein wrote:
Am 07.06.2015 um 21:30 schrieb . . .winston:
Mayayana wrote:

What it is is simply a connecting ramp to transition
from the old way of allowing MS to provide updates
automatically, to the new way of accepting Windows
as a subscription service.

Not known, only hypothesized by those who don't know.


If you get Win10 you can't stop updates.
Not true - only W10 Core (Home) has the limitation.

If I were to upgrade from my seven weeks old Windows 8.1 Home, which W10
would I get?



Yours would be the first case...

W8.1 Home/Core -- W10 Home/Core (with fully automated updates)

W8.1 Pro -- W10 Pro (some token control of updates)

OEM (Dell/HP/Acer) machines tend to come with "Home". For example,
my Acer laptop comes with Win7 Home Premium, and that
case would be

W7 SP1 Home Premium -- W10 Home/Core (with fully automated updates)

If at the very second, I was to "factory restore" the Acer to
W7 original version, I would need to install SP1, do all the
Windows Updates, install '583 update, then when the notification
is present, get my W10 Home/Core download.

I do not mention the x32 or x64 part, because that part must
be preserved during the update. Yours is x64, and the new
W10 Home/Core would also be x64. You cannot mix them, and
take an x32 to x64 or an x64 to x32, not with a simple
upgrade installation.

HTH,
Paul