#2
30th Jul 2015 at 4:56 PM
If you bought a retail license of Windows 7, then no. Wait.
Right now your Windows 7 retail license allows you to reinstall Windows as many times as you want, as long as its only active on one machine at a time.
The wording of the "free" upgrade worries me. It says its valid for the "lifetime of the machine" which sounds an awful lot like OEM licenses. Basically if you change your hardware your license is gone.
Tomorrow you wanna upgrade to Skylake? Too bad, no more license for you.
Also forced updates on Windows is already breaking things for people. And Windows sends back data about what FILES you have etc. Collects Data, records audio. Usually its harmless non-personally identifiable data, but I would wait and see.
Plus there's all the other points your brought up.
You've got a full year to decide if you want the upgrade or not. Take advantage of that and see how Windows unfolds.