This is surely a drastic change of mind from Microsoft on their I changed-my-mind grace period extended in windows 10 from the initial 30 days to a shorter period of 10 days confirmed by the company.Users who upgraded to Windows 10 were able to roll back to the preceding Windows as long as they did so within 30 days.
To make that possible, Microsoft stored the older operating system in a special folder on the device's drive, consuming up to 5GB of storage space. After the grace period expired, the folder's contents were deleted.
With last week's Anniversary Update, aka version 1607, the 30 days were reduced to 10.
Microsoft said that the behind-the-scenes change had been triggered by data gleaned from the voluminous telemetry it collects from Windows 10 devices.
"Based on our user research, we noticed most users who choose to go back to a previous version of Windows do it within the first several days," a spokesman said in an email. "As such, we changed the setting to 10 days to free storage space used by previous copies."
Meanwhile, since the grace period for the free upgrade of windows elapsed on July 29, it is expected that the retail prices for an upgrade will be between $110 and $200.
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