How to get Windows 10 right now

You may be one of the lucky ones.

It's very possible your Windows 7, 8 or 8.1 PC is fortunate enough to be in one of the early rounds of the Windows 10 rollout. As a free upgrade, Windows 10 only requires you to sign up for the update and it'll arrive on your machine, free of charge, starting today. As soon as the computer lets you know the update is available, it should begin downloading (although that make take a while).

Microsoft is (wisely) staggering the deployment, though, which means you might be more like this poor soul, who is still waiting for her PC to inform her the Windows 10 bits are available and ready. Read more...