Windows 10 Now Available Via Windows Update

Microsoft has just given Windows users one more way to experiment with Windows 10.
You don’t have to be an Insider to do it either.
You just need to download and run a small executable to kickstart the Windows Update process.


You can’t simply head to Windows Update on your computer and find it under the optional updates section.
It’s still a bit early in the Windows 10 development process for Microsoft to make it available there
they don’t want unwary users installing an unfinished and potentially buggy OS after all.


Once you run the program you download your machine (physical or virtual) will reboot and the Windows Update process
will kick in and pull down the Windows 10 Preview bits and start the installation.
It’s not really any easier than grabbing and mounting the .ISO file or using the streaming installer Microsoft had already made available,
but it’s an important step towards realizing Microsoft’s overall vision for Windows 10.


They want adoption to be as close to 100% as possible when Windows 10 is finally released and that means they have to make the process
of upgrading a machine running Windows 7 or Windows 8 as painless as possible.
It needs to be so simple that even the laziest of Windows users can’t avoid it.


That means it can’t be shoved inside the Windows Store like Windows 8.1 was.
Microsoft might make the Windows 10 update available there too,
but not everyone who’s running Windows 8 or 8.1 is a fan of the Metro interface or the Store.
Many are quite happy booting straight to the desktop and never venture over to the other side.
Windows Update is also a more logical choice since it’s the only conduit Microsoft can use to push the upgrade to Windows 7 users.


Microsoft knows Windows 10 needs to be a winner, and they know they need all their users to upgrade.
They’ve already made it free now they’re trying their best to make sure it’s also a hassle free process too.



Enjoy

just checked for the windows 10 update and I don't see it there at all

Napster said:

just checked for the windows 10 update and I don't see it there at all

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You need to read the above post more clearly.

"You can’t simply head to Windows Update on your computer and find it under the optional updates section.
It’s still a bit early in the Windows 10 development process for Microsoft to make it available there
they don’t want unwary users installing an unfinished and potentially buggy OS after all."

I've seen this headline elsewhere and it really should be renamed.

@Fangface find it under the optional updates section that's a new one on me cant even see optional updates section.

powerp said:

I would love this. Cant stand windows 9.

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It's here :tumbleweed:

Napster said:

@Fangface find it under the optional updates section that's a new one on me cant even see optional updates section.

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Read it again...it says "You can’t simply head to Windows Update on your computer and find it under the optional updates section."

It means you WON'T find it in the optional updates section.

On Windows 7 myself and you see this screen:


You have Important updates and Optional updates.
It's probably different on Windows 8/8.1.

The whole article is basically bollocks. All it's doing is pointing you to this page Download Windows 10 Technical Preview - Microsoft Windows

just keep win 7 until windows 10 is fully out, ive used most of the beta's lost intrest when the win 8 one came out