Microsoft announced Win7/Win8/Win8.1 free upgrade Win10 path

Computer store news: Last week Microsoft announced all SKU versions of Win10, different versions will be able to meet the different needs from the mass users to small businesses to large enterprises . However, Microsoft did not elaborate on the specific upgrade path. Today, Microsoft announced a detailed upgrade path for Windows 10 in its MSDN blog.

First, let's review the Win10 version classification:

• Win10 Home Edition (Home) for the mass users, free upgrade;

&bull Win10 Professional Edition (Pro) for small businesses, free upgrade;

• Win10 Enterprise Edition (Enterprise) for medium and large enterprises, need to obtain VL license;

• Win10 Education Education for schools (teachers and students and employees), need to obtain VL license;

• Win10 mobile version (Mobile) for mass consumers, small, medium and large enterprises and academic institutions, through OEM Licensing;

• Win10 Mobile Enterprise Edition (Mobile Enterprise) for medium and large enterprises, through OEM (IoT) and VL license;

Let’s pay attention to the concerns of mass consumers Win7, Win8 and Win8.1 free upgrade Win10 detailed plan:

• In the year after the official release of Win10, Microsoft will provide license for Windows7, Windows8 and Windows Phone 8.1 devices Free upgrade. The corresponding version of the upgrade is described below. After one year, you need to upgrade Win10 by purchasing boxed products and volume licenses;

• Win8, Win8.1 and Windows7 Home Basic, Win7 Home Premium can be upgraded to Win10 Home Edition for free;

• Win8, Win8.1 Professional and Win7 Professional, Win7 Ultimate can be upgraded to Win10 Professional for free;

• Eligible equipment is upgraded free of charge during the first year , upgraded devices will receive lifetime free updates;

• Free upgrades do not include Enterprise and RT versions;

• Free upgrades will be pushed via Windows Update, join domain computers Manually update via Windows update. Updates cannot be deployed through WSUS.