Will win10 TP upgrade to license copy

Not sure if I've seen this question. Will any of these TP or even one of mine turned to TH1 (whatever that is), will
they upgrade or be upgradable to a full activated copy? or all of them dead in October?

On Thu, 30 Jul 2015 16:52:43 -0400, Big Al wrote:

Not sure if I've seen this question. Will any of these TP or even one
of mine turned to TH1 (whatever that is), will they upgrade or be
upgradable to a full activated copy? or all of them dead in October?

I think you may find the answer here
http://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwin...ng-changes-to-
windows-10-insider-preview-builds/

On Thu, 30 Jul 2015 18:02:10 -0500, John Aldred wrote:

On Thu, 30 Jul 2015 16:52:43 -0400, Big Al wrote:

Not sure if I've seen this question. Will any of these TP or even one
of mine turned to TH1 (whatever that is), will they upgrade or be
upgradable to a full activated copy? or all of them dead in October?

I think you may find the answer here
http://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwin...ng-changes-to-
windows-10-insider-preview-builds/

Broken link try again:
http://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwin...review-builds/

"John Aldred" wrote in message
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On Thu, 30 Jul 2015 18:02:10 -0500, John Aldred wrote:

On Thu, 30 Jul 2015 16:52:43 -0400, Big Al wrote:

Not sure if I've seen this question. Will any of these TP or even one
of mine turned to TH1 (whatever that is), will they upgrade or be
upgradable to a full activated copy? or all of them dead in October?

I think you may find the answer here
http://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwin...ng-changes-to-
windows-10-insider-preview-builds/

Broken link try again:
http://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwin...review-builds/

So THAT'S why mine doesn't look any different. It ISN'T!! Since I haven't
opted out of the Insider Previews, it looks like I'm still running a
preview. That article explains a lot. Thanks for the link!
--
SC Tom

Big Al wrote:
Not sure if I've seen this question. Will any of these TP or even one
of mine turned to TH1 (whatever that is), will they upgrade or be
upgradable to a full activated copy? or all of them dead in October?

I would think the Insider program would travel in
a parallel universe.

To stay alive past October, you had to sign up for the
Insider program, with a Microsoft Account, some weeks
ago. Once the details of this were revealed, new sign ups
were disabled, so that millions of people would not
built new computers and load them up with "Insider".

An activation record exists at Microsoft, for your
Insider OS. But, would that activation record be
sufficient to automatically activate an RTM install
on the same machine ? Probably not, as they need
you to stay in the parallel universe and test
new OS previews for them. It would be a nuisance to
have to blow away your RTM a week from now, with
another 3.5GB download.

The Insider program OS is still activated. And it
still works as an OS. It just receives a different
stream of updates. It receives more alpha material
when you least expect it. You test stuff before
the Win10 Home people test stuff.

If you're not signed up for Insider, then your copy
should start to malfunction in October or whatever
the malfunction rules are.

I just squeaked under the wire for Insider. I
had a dual boot Win10 TP setup (and not registered
as Insider). When I heard about the plan to keep
Insider copies running, I booted the 10074 OS on my
machine, and registered for Insider there. Rather
than try it from 10162 or whatever. And so far, that
seems to have worked. I was surprised 10074 would
still boot, but it did.

Today, my boot menu looks like this. Both copies
use an MSA and are part of the Insider program.
The bottom one should die some day (for not
receiving updates when it should). The bottom one
never really served any purpose, except to test
that Win10 could handle dual boot OK.

Win10 (10240)

Win10 (10074)

HTH,
Paul