Quote Originally Posted by Riardon View Post
Stop reading tin foil websites and stick to the official Microsoft sources. Windows 10 is a free upgrade for only 1 year from the day it will start to those who own a legal W8/8.1/7 copies. All the rest must pay a full price of the OS as always.
Well... not exactly.



Even people who pirated Win7 or Win8 can get the free upgrade. They just won't have a "genuine" license.

Source

We are upgrading all qualified PCs, genuine and non-genuine, to Windows 10...even though pirates will be able to auto-upgrade to Windows 10, the version they get will still be considered unlicensed.
Anyone with a qualified device can upgrade to Windows 10, including those with pirated copies of Windows.
So there's that.