Myerson says “In addition, in partnership with some of our valued OEM partners, we are planning very attractive Windows 10 upgrade offers for their customers running one of their older devices in a Non-Genuine state.

There is some good news for some (but not all) pirates however - the carrot of a special deal to make your copy of Windows 10 genuine. The news comes in a Blogging Windows post by Terry Myerson entitled “ Genuine Windows and Windows 10”. The catch is that the new copy of Windows 10 will remain in a non-genuine state, bringing you up to date in terms of the OS but with pesky notifications and whatever limitations Microsoft will impose on non-genuine Windows 10 users. What will happen is that copies of Windows 7 or 8.1 in a ‘non-genuine’ state will still be offered an in-place upgrade to Windows 10 once Microsoft finally releases the finished code, and if the upgrade is accepted, Windows 10 will be installed.

If you thought that pirated copies of Windows 7 or 8.1 would be getting a free upgrade to Windows 10, you’re both right - and wrong.

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