*legal version
I need to revert my desktop back to my legal copy of 7 tonight for this reason
I heard a while back that they would be upgrading for free even to those on pirated versions.
It was their way of finding out who has it to better control piracy of Windows in the future, or something.
Whenever I hear that a super big company is doing something big for free, it makes me think that Microsoft found some super vulnerability or something and think it would be more cost effective to do this for free than to have something major happen and have them get pinned as liable. I am normally a realist, rather than pessimist, believe it or not.