Windows 10 Insider Preview to Auto Upgrade to Final RTM Without Reservation
Windows 10 Insiders who installed Windows 10 Technical Preview or Windows 10 Insider Preview on their computer will have direct and free upgrade path to final RTM (Release to Manufacturing) version of the OS when Windows 10 is officially released.
It means that Windows Insiders can upgrade to Windows 10 RTM build without the need of performing clean install or restoring back to original Windows 7 or Windows 8.1. As explained by Gabriel Aul on Twitter in early May, the public face of Windows Insider program, officially, you still need a valid license for Windows 7, Windows 8 or Windows 8.1 to upgrade from preview build to genuine Windows 10 RTM to avoid been detected as pirate.
@hossamhammouri Official release will be an upgrade to Preview builds.
Clean install and activate Windows 10 is allowed (No Windows 10 product key is issued for Windows 10 upgrade license acquired under the free upgrade program. However, Microsoft records the device’s hardware ID or HWID on its activation server when the device is first upgraded to Windows 10 and activated. On future reinstallation of Windows 10, the device will automatically be granted permanent activation status when the activation server detects its matching hardware ID).
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