Chapter 2. Installing, configuring, and deploying Windows 10

Before you start

How Windows 10 Setup works

Upgrading to Windows 10

Performing a clean install

Configuring a multiboot system

Activating Windows

Tweaking and tuning your Windows 10 installation

Microsoft’s ambitious goal for Windows 10 is to have it running on 1 billion devices within two or three years after its launch.

A few hundred million of those devices will be new PCs, laptops, tablets, and phones that come with Windows 10. But a potentially much larger number will be PCs currently running Windows 7 or Windows 8.1, thanks to Microsoft’s unprecedented offer of a free upgrade for those devices. (That offer ends on July 29, 2016, one year after the official launch of Windows 10.) ...

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