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There’s a story making the rounds that Windows 10 will be available as a free update for folks running pre-release builds of the operating system as part of the Windows Insider program… and it’s true. It’s just not quite the whole truth.

The story comes from a comment made on Twitter by the head of the Windows Insider program Gabriel Aul. But a follow-up tweet explains that there’s a major caveat: you only get a free upgrade if you have a valid Windows 7, or Windows 8.1 license.

When you sign up to be a member of the program you can upgrade a PC from Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 to Windows 10 and keep your existing Windows license key. Or you can download a disk image and perform a clean install while using a license key provided by Microsoft.

If you do the clean install you can effectively install Windows 10 preview without paying for a Windows license: and that means you could install Windows on a PC that previously wasn’t running Windows at all. If you do that, Microsoft is not going to give you a free pass to upgrade to the full version of Windows 10 when it launches this summer.

Anyone upgrading from Windows 7, Windows 8.1, or Windows 10 Preview (with a license that’s been applied from one of those operating systems) can upgrade for free. Anyone who didn’t have to pay for a license will still need to pay for a license to use Windows 10.

Oh, and while we’re debunking things — last week there were a number of reports suggesting that the OnePlus Two smartphone would have a Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 processor and a $400 price tag.

This rumor comes from comments made by CEO Pete Lau on Chinese social networking site Weibo. As far as I can tell, he didn’t actually say it will have that processor or price tag. Rather, a question was raised: if the phone has that processor how much would be a fair price?

One answer was 2499.99 Yuan, which Lau said seemed reasonable.

That could certainly be a hint that this is the hardware and price point we should expect. But it’s not exactly a confirmation.

source:liliputing