About non-genuine Windows upgrading to Windows 10.

[davidhk129]

I thought the issue was settled. That Upgrade can only be done on genuine Windows.
Guess MS have changed their mind, again.

Blog Windows posted October 29th, 2015
http://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2015/10/29/making-it-easier-to-upgrade-to-windows-10/
excerpt:

Windows 10 Upgrades for Non-Genuine
Our free upgrade offer is available to all of our Genuine Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 customers. One of the more interesting learnings from the upgrade is the creative efforts which non-Genuine customers have gone to, to initiate the upgrade process on Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 – and then how many have purchased Genuine Windows 10 activation through the Windows 10 store.

Following these learnings, we are going to start an experiment soon in the United States, which we will then evaluate before extending to other countries, to ease the upgrade of non-Genuine Windows 7 and Windows 8.1. We’ll offer a one-click opportunity to get Genuine via the Windows Store or by entering an activation code purchased elsewhere. If this turns into a path for most customers to get Genuine, we will expand the experiment. We’d like to welcome as many of these customers as possible to the legitimate Windows ecosystem.

 

[davidhk129]

Sounds like a good business sense.
Why not ? As long as they pay for a genuine license.

 

[Tim Locke]

I expect that the hard core of people with incorrect licences will be just as happy to stay on whatever they have now.
Those machines with wrong licences probably include many with corporate licences that should have been replaced when the company sold the PC or gave it to a retiree or even gave it to a thrift shop. Legitimate licences at some point but not eligible for the free W10