The Takeaway: The devil in the details of the Windows 10 license

20.07.2015
Just like the changes coming to Windows 10, the license agreement for Microsoft's new OS includes new clauses that spell out everything from how automatic updates are handled to the bundling of Office apps and what happens to pirated copies when a user tries to upgrade.

Details about the likely final version of the Windows 10 end-user licensing agreement (EULA) began to emerge Thursday and were first reported on by Ed Bott of ZDNet.

Although there are no major surprises -- the information in the EULA has already been disclosed by Microsoft -- there are changes from previous EULAs to match the changes Microsoft has in store for Windows 10. Among those changes:

Other sections of the EULA explain whether the OS can be moved to another device or downgraded so the user can install an older version of Windows on a new device that came with Windows 10. Those sections haven't changed: Users can only downgrade from Windows 10 Pro -- and then only to Windows 7 Professional or Windows 8.1 Pro.

With reports by Gregg Keizer at Computerworld.

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Ken Mingis

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