Official confirmation! Piracy Win7/8.1 can not be upgraded to Win10

for free. Tonight, Microsoft will hold a press conference at the Beijing Water Cube to officially release the Windows 10 operating system. Although strictly speaking, Windows 10 is not officially released in China, but its free upgrade work has quietly begun.

For many people, whether pirated Win7/8.1 can upgrade Windows 10 for free is a very concerned issue. Yesterday afternoon, the author was fortunate enough to participate in an exclusive interview with Mr. Zhang Yongli, the general manager of Microsoft's Greater China Consumer Channels Division, and got the exact answer to this question.

Mr. Zhang Yongli said that strictly speaking, pirated Win7/8.1 cannot be upgraded to Windows 10 for free. Even if it receives an upgrade prompt, it will interrupt the upgrade after detecting piracy during the upgrade process.

In addition, Tencent and 360 and Microsoft's free upgrade to Windows 10 does not support pirated users. In other words, all Microsoft official partners including Windows 10 free upgrades do not support pirated users. .

Of course, how Microsoft defines pirated users remains to be verified. For example, if you use OEM to activate and can use Windows Update to upgrade, Microsoft may treat them as genuine users.

But it is certain that pirated users will not be activated even if they upgrade to Windows 10 by certain means. There will be pirated prompts in the lower right corner, some functions will be restricted, but will not affect. Most of the features are used. The piracy prompt in the lower right corner is just a watermark, it won't be black, and it won't pop up when you play the game.