Users Given Just 10 Days to Downgrade from Windows 10 Anniversary Update

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Users Given Just 10 Days to Downgrade from Windows 10 Anniversary Update

One of the unexpected changes that were introduced by Microsoft with the Windows 10 Anniversary Update is a shorter period of time during which users can perform a downgrade and go back to a previous OS version or build.

Previously, Microsoft was offering users the possibility of downgrading to their previous Windows version in a maximum of 30 days after first installing Windows 10, but with the Anniversary Update, the company has decided to cut this period to just 10 days.

WinSuperSite notes that, by shortening the rollback period to 10 days, Microsoft can help recover more space on the target device faster than before, as the rollback recovery files obviously eat up space, which is kind of important for devices with small storage.

No reason to downgrade
The company has already confirmed in a statement that this change has indeed been made in the Anniversary Update because it discovered that the majority of users perform the downgrade in the first days after installing Windows 10 anyway, so there was basically no reason to keep the 30-day deadline and use much more space during this whole time for nothing.

“Based on our user research, we noticed most users who choose to go back to a previous version of Windows do it within the first several days. As such, we changed the setting to 10 days to free storage space used by previous copies,” a company spokesperson is quoted as saying.

For the moment, it’s not yet clear how many users actually want to downgrade from Windows 10 Anniversary Update, but there’s basically no reason to do it, mostly because this update comes with a long list of new features and improvements over the base version of Windows 10.

It remains to be seen how the community sees this new silent change, and as usual, get ready for a new round of criticism aimed at the company for not announcing this before the public launch of the Anniversary Update.

 

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You can still get Windows 10 for free by using Windows 7 and 8 keys

The free Windows 10 upgrade offer ended on July 29th. At least that’s what Microsoft says, but users have found a number of ways to to upgrade to Windows 10 for free since then. We explained how to do this via the assistive technologies loophole a couple of days ago, but today you can add a new method to the list: simply use a Windows 7 or 8 key.

Microsoft has made a big hubbub regarding the end of its free upgrade offer on July 29th, but so far very little seems to have actually changed. Those that have “reserved” or went through the install process of Windows 10 still have their free licenses even if the they reverted back to older versions of Windows. Meanwhile new users can still join the Insider program and get a copy of Windows 10. Even those stuck on Windows 7 or 8 aren’t actually stuck.

According to Mary Jo Foley and a number of users online, old retail keys for Windows 7 and Windows 8 still work and can be used to activate Windows 10. This seems to work both with “never used” licenses, as well as those that activated previous copies of Windows.

Of course this is exactly the way the upgrade process worked before the July 29th deadline, when users could register their existing keys and get the new operating system activated. Microsoft did not comment on when this behavior might disappear, though it makes sense for the company to take a slow approach and give people more time to upgrade to Windows 10, even if they’re saying something different publicly.

After all, Microsoft recently announced that it would miss its target of 1 billion Windows 10 installs by 2018, so giving existing users more time to upgrade seems like the least Microsoft can do to mitigate that.

That being said if you haven’t upgraded to Windows 10 yet, you really should take advantage of all of these loopholes, even if you then go back to an older version of the OS. And the sooner the better, because there’s no knowing when some of these might disappear.

Source: ZDNet

 

[ravi prakash saini]

@exterminator20 10 days from the release of Windows 10 Anniversary Update or from installation date cause given my net speed it will take 3 to 4 days for me to download it

 

[Purshu_Pro]

10 days from the release of Windows 10 Anniversary Update or from installation date cause given my net speed it will take 3 to 4 days for me to download it

If you update to newer version, you will have only 10 days to roll back for the previous version. Its not the number of days of availability of the update. The update remains in the server and can be downloaded any time.

 

[DJ Panda]

I kind of like this. Gives people more time to upgrade and not complain of not.