Can You Still Get Windows 10 For Free?

Does it count if you claim to be morally disabled?

anther reason to do a full back up first

I agree with Calvin The'airedale. And checking new computer prices, it seems to me that computers with similar hardware (processor, etc) are about the same price whether they come with Win 7, 8, or 10. The $2,000+ price tag on a gaming computer is not due to Win 10. It's the enhanced procesor, video and sound cards, etc. The same seems to be true with a $500-$600 plain Jane laptop. Buy the hardware and the configuration you want, and Win 10 will come with it. Why pay extra to put it on an older machine. Besides, when my laptop dies, MS will be offering Win 12 or Win 14, in spite of what they say they have planned now.

A state of menial disability? Why, I downgraded to GWX on the day that my palm flower turned black hoping that I would not see a BSOD. My sound is fork as a mind tuning. Mental floss, indeed! Maybe I should start back and over up. Windows 10 has been very, very good too mi.

Took me two attempts to upgrade and a few updates to get all the bugs out, but Win 10 is by far the most stable, quickest, most useful Windows ever. And I have tried several Linux distributions over the years and it is still not as user friendly as Windows 98, let alone Windows 7 or 10. The paranoid minority are welcome to it.

You do not need to be disabled to use the upgrade offer now. "If you use assistive technology on Windows, you are eligible for the free upgrade offer". One example of assistive technologies given on the same page (Microsoft upgrade FAQ) is Cortana. So feel free to upgrade without any bad conscience.

While Win 10 has been acceptable for me on some of my PCs, I deeply regret installing it (as an upgrade to Win 8) on my tablet.
This was done months ago, certainly too long ago to be able to automatically uninstall Win 10 and roll back to Win 8.
Is there a relatively easy way to roll back (or better yet, install Win 7)?

Pray tell, what are "assistive technologies?" My feeble 78 year old mind is in pretty good shape, but my body has all sorts of disabilities. (I have but don't use: a cane, a walker, crutches, etc., though I have used them and may have to go back to using them.) I don't have a youngster or teen to clue me in as to this terminology.

Great information regarding updating to windows 10,
But i would argue why would you want too.

There is no windows 11,12,13,14, etc. Windows 10 is supposed to be the last version of Windows.

Thank you for this follow-up article. When I first upgraded my HP W7 desktop to W10 it was a disaster and I had to pay $100 to get it reverted. Then my laptop broke and the new one had W10. I've been using them side-by-side for six months, wishing they were identical operating systems but scared of another W10 upgrade. Your article prompted me to try again and it was a piece of cake. Thank you.

Butch: Assistive technologies are apps/programs/devices used by people with disabilities to access and/or interact with information on the computer screen. Examples built in to the Windows operating system include Magnifier and Narrator, and Speech Recognition.

Commercially available accessibility programs include ZoomText which offers a number of visual enhancements, JAWS which reads the screen aloud or sends the screen information to a Braille display, and Dragon Naturally Speaking which allows you to interact with the screen display via voice recogntion rather than a mouse or keyboard.

The main reason that Microsoft is still allowing the Win 10 upgrade for assistive tech users is that some parts of Windows 10 (Edge, Mail) do not yet work well with assistive technology programs.

After you finish installing the assistive technology for Win 10 you have to go to settings to revert to non assistive settings.

Hey Bob - I thought the first method you mention in the article was supposed to be an upgrade as opposed to a clean install. But the article specifies "clean" install for both options. Was this a mistake?

To answer MGs question:
"Is there a relatively easy way to roll back (or better yet, install Win 7)?"
Yes there is....if the last thing you did before you let MS install W10 is BACK YOUR SYSTEM UP.
I made 2 backups of my W7 just in case the first one failed and in different places. One was on the data drive and the other was on an exterior usb3 drive.
Glad I did because I am still watching my wife rip her hair out with her W10.

I once used the magnifier on Windows 7 (rotten feature, by the way). I'm therefore a user of assistive technologies, and am entitled to a free Windows 10.

That being said, and despite the fact I locked in my rights to a free upgrade long ago by initiating the operation, then aborting it, I have no intention of going there.

As a few snarky commenters remarked, you sure need to be mentally challenged to voluntary submit to Windows 10.

Bob, I just tried Belarc Advisor on my Win7 Pro computer, and it does not display the actual Product Key in the Software Licenses section for my Windows 7 Professional, only the last 5 characters with an asterisk which at the bottom of the screen says "The full product key is not stored on this computer. However, the characters shown uniquely identify your product key." The characters shown are not in the same format of a Product Key and are all numbers.

Several other Microsoft Product Keys are displayed, just not the main one that is needed to 'upgrade' to Win10.

This was very helpful. I have an older VAIO laptop on which I had installed Linux Mint. That works well but I always regretted not getting WIN 10 for free when it was available. I pulled the old hard drive out and installed an SSD and then used Windows Media Creator to install WIN 10 using the product key from a WIN 7 disc that I had. Works great! Much faster of course with the SSD. And I can always switch back to the Mint drive but at least I have WIN 10 on one drive for it now.

Disrespectful comments like the one from Calvin The'airedale should be deleted and blocked for future comments.

I also have Windows 10 64bit and do not believe it is the last version, no matter what Microsoft says. My upgrade was done last year and I have a digital entitlement, or something. However, I am using the machine in the same way I used it with Windows 8.1, with classic shell. In fact, I mostly do the same things I did on my XP machine. Actually, the XP machine can run an old webcam. The webcam is not 64 bit compatible.