Free Windows 10 upgrade: time is running out

If you can get past the misleadingly icky and pushy promotional adverts, you’ll discover the many reasons to upgrade to Windows 10

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Published: 8:01am, 11 Jun 2016Updated: 8:00am, 11 Jun 2016

By the time you read this, there are roughly seven weeks remaining until Microsoft's free Windows 10 upgrade offer expires on July 30.

After that, you're going to have to pay US$119 to upgrade your PC to the latest and greatest Windows.

If you've been on the fence – if you're still running Windows 7 or especially Windows 8.1 – it's probably time to upgrade to Windows 10.

The past few weeks especially, Microsoft has been making headlines by using tactics to promote the upgrade that are annoying at best and misleadingly icky at worst. It's not a flattering look for Microsoft to push Windows 10 on people so aggressively, especially when there are plenty of good reasons to stay on older versions of Windows.

You still have time to upgrade to Windows 10.

But if you can get past that, and if you don't have a pressing and immediate reason to stay with an older version, there are lots of great reasons to upgrade, and not a lot of reasons to hesitate.

First and foremost, Windows 10 is just plain nice to use. I have found lately that I can get more done on a Windows 10 machine such as Microsoft’s own Surface Book than on an Apple Macbook.

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Free Windows 10 upgrade: time is running out

.css-1c6uqr6{color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-family:inherit;line-height:inherit;overflow-wrap:break-word;}If you can get past the misleadingly icky and pushy promotional adverts, you’ll discover the many reasons to upgrade to Windows 10

If you can get past the misleadingly icky and pushy promotional adverts, you’ll discover the many reasons to upgrade to Windows 10