Free upgrade to windows 10 on bootcamp

No.

Pete

Windows has never released a free OS yet. I highly doubt that it will decide to give it's money maker away for free. Why would you think you'd get it for free? If you are not happy, then complain to Microsoft.

Cheers

Pete

Well there you go. So why did you ask if you knew?

Pete

What device you have shouldn't make a difference. The original announcement was that any owner of Windows 7 and 8 will be able get a free upgrade to version 10 within the first year of its official release.

For the most part, Microsoft sells software, not hardware. They won't care if you have Windows running on a Mac, Dell, Sony, Acer, or whatever. You bought a copy of Windows and that's all that matters.

I got the free upgrade icon in my task bar ... i'm using windows 8.1 on the boot camp partition.

wondering .... if i choose to upgrade -- are there going to be booting issues or some problem with the boot loader ? i've got a late 2013 macbook pro.

what about the drivers in windows 10, would they be sufficient to get the macbook pro's hardware up and running ?

not sure if it's GTP or not. So far i've been using windows 8.1 and OS 10.10 with the boot camp control panel and haven't had issues booting into either OS in the past year (using both OS's at least once a day).

is Apple is working on new boot camp drivers for windows 10 ?

Nobody here knows what Apple are doing until they make a statement or release an update.

Sorry

Pete

i guess that makes sense ... windows 10 is not officially on sale yet ... i think it will take a while to get updated boot camp drivers as it did with windows 8 and 8.1 ...

but i think i can go ahead and do the upgrade without disrupting my boot setup ? i'm assuming i have to keep my boot up flag set to windows rather than mac OS ....

I have IMAC early 2008 running windows 7 32 bit and just received notification about the windows 10 update. Unfortunately I will not be updating as boot camp does not support windows 8 on this old model and I expect the same will happen with windows 10.

I also have the new Macbook air 2013 which is currently running windows 8.1 in bootcamp and the upgrade to windows 10 should be fine.

The main thing is windows 8 does not work on Boot camp on most models older than 2009 not I expect the same will happen with Windows 10.

Its time apple should be doing something by updating boot camp on the old macs so at least we can get use the latest version of windows OS.

In today's paper:

New Windows 10 due at end of July

Microsoft will roll out the latest Windows operating system at the end of July.

The company said Monday that Windows 10 is designed with mobile computing in mind, allowing users to switch seamlessly between personal computers, tablets, smartphones and other gadgets. The operating system is intended to give apps a similar feel on all devices and comes with a new Web browser integrated with Cortana, the company’s voice-activated answer to Apple’s Siri.

Microsoft said Windows 10 will be available in 190 countries as a free upgrade on July 29 for anyone running Windows 8.1 or 7, the two previous versions.

So anyone who already owns Windows 7 or 8 will be able to get the official release of Win 10 in about 8 weeks. However, it's unknown how long it will be beyond that when Apple has drivers ready for their hardware, and which models they'll support.

I have a 1 year old mac book and have been running windows 7 with boot camp with no problems. I recently obtained a test version of windows 10 thru the windows insider program. Before installing windows 10 I used boot camp assistant to put the drivers on a usb. After installing windows 10 the wifi and blue tooth did not work. I load the drivers from boot camp assistant and everything worked. However, it takes forever to boot up....like 3 to 4 minutes. So, I don't know if its slow because its a test version or if its something else.

Yes, that is why they are Beta versions. The bugs have not been fully worked out yet by developers of the OS. These are exactly what you should be reporting back to Microsoft through your registered Beta testing account.

Pete

Dear Hehsr04,

Did you make the upgrade directly from Windows 7 platform, or thru Bootcamp?