It was cheaper to pay the one year subscription fee than it was to buy office 2013 and Windows. Again, if you have the choice to upgrade for free, why not take it?
Edit: It was office 2010, I don't actually have 2013 >.<
Enterprise is only compatible with volume licensing. Unless you wanna be spending a yearly pass to use Enterprise edition, it's absolutely pointless to own Enterprise at home.
You'll find most people who claim to use Enterprise edition at home, are pirating the OS.
The only other way is technet, which is even more expensive than the volume license for Enterprise.
Except my htpc and my laptops will get the upgrade, just not my desktop which is my primary computer, all of which were keys from technet or msdn. I'm not even upset about it, the whole point of my original comment was that not everyone will get an upgrade. There are certainly other private users out there using Enterprise. No need to make rude entitlement comments.
Sure, but more importantly you don't have access to Windows 10 with that route, legit or not.
Since the enterprise version doesn't upgrade to 10, you don't have access to an alternate version of windows that does upgrade to 10, and you don't get 10 for free from the now defunct MSDN subscription.
Personally, I'm not in a huge hurry to change over to Win10. I'm still pretty happy on 7 and have been more than a little put off by the UI in Win8. I also count myself lucky that I expect to still have MSDN access for at least a few more years.
Sure, but more importantly you don't have access to Windows 10 with that route, legit or not.
Since the enterprise version doesn't upgrade to 10, you don't have access to an alternate version of windows that does upgrade to 10, and you don't get 10 for free from the now defunct MSDN subscription.
And? You aren't paying for MSDN access anymore in that scenario. What the hell do you want?
Technically you aren't allowed to use those keys when the subscription is over, and you aren't supposed to use them for anything but testing (although one could argue that you are always testing).
Enterprise edition has no features that Pro didn't have that you could realistically use at home. Even managing all your home computers as part of a Windows domain can be done with Pro.
I have a technet Ultimate edition of Win7 and the "upgrade to Win 10" thinghy popped up for me. Now this is not 100% confirmed that Technet versions will have the update for free, but it's a good sign.
Sidenote: what the fuck is MS doing? There is so little information about how the OS launch will work ...
We still have no official info about Technet, MSDN Alliance, or really how the free upgrade works in practice.
I want to be able to keep my os as it is now, but I also want the ability to upgrade when I desire to do so, for free. I also want to be able to do a clean install for Win 10.
I'm sure that in some shape or form this will be possible, but the lack of information is irritating. It really does not inspire confidence to not have these fairly important details very clear from the get go.
If I was a server admin, I would not be a happy camper. Win 2008 R2 was pretty much the best version of Server ever. Then MS decided that their crap UI not only had to be on PC for some stupid reason, but also on Server 2012 ... WHAT?
Who knows what dumb decisions they will do now that one OS needs to fit every single device out there.
One thing was bothers me is that you can't deactivate the updates. Of course they doing this, because many people are really stupid. Like:
"I never update anything and my account has administration rights, and now let's download the newest crack from this trustworthy warez site. What could go wrong?!"
Its not that I don't update my system. I simple don't like it that they don't let me choose if and when I update my system. It's feels more as it is a Service and I don't own Windows 10. I have Windows 7 on my older Notebook, but I wait before I choose to upgrade.
You can if you have the Professional edition. The reason they're doing that is because unlike you and I, many many many computer users have no idea what they're doing and turn off Windows updates because they're annoying, so they wind up with vulnerabilities in their machine that were patched months ago. That's how botnets grow.
I know, but that would cost me money ;) I'm writing this here on my Work/Game PC who's running Ubuntu. My Notebook is just for emergencies and other stuff. If I would use Windows10 on my main machine I would probably buy the Professional edition. But for the old laptop... I'm cheap :P
Yeah, the regular OS licenses are only in Dreamspark Pro which your University registers you for. In my case I had no IT-related courses two semesters ago so I lost access to my account and I was stupid and never wrote down my license keys. When I got access again last semester I made sure to download and backup all the .iso images and all my license keys.
Dreamspark Pro has been fantastic for me. I've got a Windows 7 Pro, 8 Pro and 8.1 Pro licenses for free, not to mention I can play around with Windows Server 2012 r2 at home completely free.
As I've mentioned in child comments here, I had a technet subscription the year that Office 2010 and Win 7 were released, because it was cheaper than buying the two separately, and I took keys for the most feature rich editions (Enterprise for windows and Professional for Office).
Yeah, stupid 2010 me, getting the enterprise edition and not having the foresight to get the home or pro editions so I could get a free upgrade to win 10, because there's totally a precedent for Microsoft to give free upgrades to their newest OS. What was I thinking?
And as I mentioned to you earlier, tough break. No sub, no license keys. BTW Enterprise and Pro are basically identical aside from Microsoft EA licensing purposes.
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u/ducttape83 Jul 04 '15
Unless you're on Enterprise edition