Paying to upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10
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@Carnival-Boy For me personally I'd go for a hardware refresh which will have the new OEM license with the machine anyway.
The cost of a retail key is not worth it for a machine which is X years old anyway. If you have volume licensing then that's a different story.
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That's what we're generally doing. I've upgraded a few older Windows 7 PCs with SSDs, more RAM and Windows 10 and the results haven't been very satisfactory even when the OS upgrade was free, so I'm definitely not paying £190. It's mainly a few newer laptops and CAD workstations where we're looking to pay for a new licence.
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@Carnival-Boy said in Paying to upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10:
Correct. That was exactly our case. That's what I meant by "didn't have resources available".
My calculations were based on a predicting that the upgrade licence would be closer to £100 than £200, but still, I don't think that makes me an idiot as @DustinB3403 is claiming. I intended this thread to be about how to upgrade Windows 7 now it is not free, not to discuss how to run old, unsupported applications in Windows 10 or how much of an idiot I am.
Now I didn't call you an idiot. I said if people haven't upgraded when it was free they're idiots and should have to pay for it if they want to upgrade.
Because and @Breffni-Potter said it
@Breffni-Potter said in Paying to upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10:
Which is why everyone had the option to upgrade the machine, claim the digital entitlement for that system, then downgrade back to 7. If getting Windows 10 for free was not a business priority and other things took precedence then they now have to pay for it.
That is my point.
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@DustinB3403 said in Paying to upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10:
Now I didn't call you an idiot. I said if people haven't upgraded when it was free they're idiots and should have to pay for it if they want to upgrade.
Well, I'm obviously one of these people as I wouldn't have started the thread otherwise, would I? Of course I should have to pay for it, Microsoft has been clear on that from the start.
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@Carnival-Boy said in Paying to upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10:
@DustinB3403 said in Paying to upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10:
Now I didn't call you an idiot. I said if people haven't upgraded when it was free they're idiots and should have to pay for it if they want to upgrade.
Well, I'm obviously one of these people as I wouldn't have started the thread otherwise, would I? Of course I should have to pay for it, Microsoft has been clear on that from the start.
But you didn't / don't want to upgrade. You've said in this very post that only a few systems you want upgraded.
\Other systems you've attempted to upgrade and the results were less than satisfactory.
So which is it?
When the upgrade was offered for free, the business could've gone ahead, upgraded got the key for that device and then rolled it back to Windows 7.
Now that the window for this has passed it's time to buck up, Microsoft was extremely fair with this roll-out of Windows 10.
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@DustinB3403 said in Paying to upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10:
So which is it?
It's mainly a few newer laptops and CAD workstations where we're looking to pay for a new licence. As I wrote!
When the upgrade was offered for free, the business could've gone ahead, upgraded got the key for that device and then rolled it back to Windows 7.
I know. And for some businesses that wasn't deemed cost effective or appropriate. As we've already discussed. You seem to think anyone who made that business decision is an idiot, don't you?
Now that the window for this has passed it's time to buck up, Microsoft was extremely fair with this roll-out of Windows 10.
No-one has said they haven't been, have they? Although I think $250 is a bit over-priced, but I'm guessing the reason is that they don't want to further antagonise the OEMS who need to shift new Windows 10 hardware.
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@Carnival-Boy said in Paying to upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10:
I know. And for some businesses that wasn't deemed cost effective or appropriate. As we've already discussed. You seem to think anyone who made that business decision is an idiot, don't you?
If the business got news of "Hey this new program is coming out, and it works on Windows 10" and refused to upgrade for any reason, I'd call them idiots, yes.
And it's not a knock on you, as CAD designers often use higher end gear, and are effectively mandated by clients to have the most current software. This is clearly a lack of business initiative to care, to hope that they could skimp by.
Now if that business initiative is from the IT department, shame on you. If it's from upper management saying "No, don't do an upgrade yet" then shame on them.
The point is, engineers have to have current equipment and software to work on. It's that simple.
When I was at a local sheet metal company, every year I was going through software upgrades because our clients mandated that on us. If we were ever without ability to design parts (or open their drawings) they'd have dropped the contract with us for that part. Costing us tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars.
And that is because once we got their drawings, and confirmed everything was good (or completely did the work from scratch companies like Caterpiller and Siemens) we were a verified and certified OEM manufacturer.
Huge money there. Upgrading cost was pennies in comparison.
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@Carnival-Boy said in Paying to upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10:
No-one has said they haven't been, have they? Although I think $250 is a bit over-priced, but I'm guessing the reason is that they don't want to further antagonise the OEMS who need to shift new Windows 10 hardware.
What about going for the $88 OEM deal? I know it is a pain compared to the full retail box, but even if you use every copy on two machines, it's much cheaper.
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Went to look at CDW to see what they had for info and they have this, which is just cruel...
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@Carnival-Boy do you have access to VL Open?
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CDW has the retail box for $199. Not great, but a little better.
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@scottalanmiller said in Paying to upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10:
What about going for the $88 OEM deal? I know it is a pain compared to the full retail box, but even if you use every copy on two machines, it's much cheaper.
Doesn't an OEM licence have to be used on a brand new machine? Not sure what you mean by "use every copy on two machines"? I'm not very familiar with OEM licencing.
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@scottalanmiller said in Paying to upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10:
@Carnival-Boy do you have access to VL Open?
We do. I will look for pricing on that. So VL offers an upgrade version, but retail doesn't? Seems odd.
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@Carnival-Boy said in Paying to upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10:
@scottalanmiller said in Paying to upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10:
@Carnival-Boy do you have access to VL Open?
We do. I will look for pricing on that. So VL offers an upgrade version, but retail doesn't? Seems odd.
It's because VL is only upgrade
That's all that VL ever is (traditionally at least.) I think that they are using the system to push people to the VL world. -
@scottalanmiller said in Paying to upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10:
It's because VL is only upgrade
Ah yes! Of course. Good point
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@Carnival-Boy said in Paying to upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10:
@scottalanmiller said in Paying to upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10:
What about going for the $88 OEM deal? I know it is a pain compared to the full retail box, but even if you use every copy on two machines, it's much cheaper.
Doesn't an OEM licence have to be used on a brand new machine? Not sure what you mean by "use every copy on two machines"? I'm not very familiar with OEM licencing.
No, no such requirement. OEM is perfectly fine for a used machine. But once you use it, it's tied to that machine forever (technically the motherboard.) So if you have Windows 7 OEM on a machine today, and you buy Windows 10 OEM for it this afternoon, both your Windows 7 and WIndows 10 licenses are applied to that one machine, forever. You can never reuse either of them (but you can dual boot Win 7 and 10 if you wanted to.)
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There is a bizarre requirement, that might be removed now, that no one pays attention to, that OEM used to have to be sold with a piece of hardware. So it was common to sell it with a memory stick, hard drive, USB stick, etc. That's been lifted or is so weird that it is totally ignored today.
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@scottalanmiller said in Paying to upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10:
There is a bizarre requirement, that might be removed now, that no one pays attention to, that OEM used to have to be sold with a piece of hardware. So it was common to sell it with a memory stick, hard drive, USB stick, etc. That's been lifted or is so weird that it is totally ignored today.
I remember that, the first computer system I built I bought Windows
XPME actually, and with the CD and Key came a memory module.I was very confused at first trying to figure out what I was supposed to do with this part.... lol
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@DustinB3403 said in Paying to upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10:
@scottalanmiller said in Paying to upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10:
There is a bizarre requirement, that might be removed now, that no one pays attention to, that OEM used to have to be sold with a piece of hardware. So it was common to sell it with a memory stick, hard drive, USB stick, etc. That's been lifted or is so weird that it is totally ignored today.
I remember that, the first computer system I built I bought Windows
XPME actually, and with the CD and Key came a memory module.I was very confused at first trying to figure out what I was supposed to do with this part.... lol
They often sent dead parts in the box, just kept dead memory and stuff laying around and tossed it in the box. Problem was, MS faced legal problems from that that they didn't want.... like people being able to say that the license was tied to the memory instead of the mobo (which is how it used to be) so that dead memory could be kept and the OEM applied to machine after machine. So they moved to just tying it to the mobo.
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@scottalanmiller Yeah I could see how that could become a big issue...
Well hey you guys have been sending me dead RAM with every purchase.....
Just affix the key to the RAM, and throw that into a locker somewhere. Product keys for life.
