Free lunch is not delicious. Actual combat 360/Tencent free upgrade to Win10

Windows 10 has been officially released. I believe many readers can't wait to upgrade to this Windows system that Microsoft claims is the best ever. In order to "recruit" most of the pirated users in China, Microsoft has teamed up with 360, Tencent and Baidu to provide everyone with a free upgrade to the genuine Windows 10 system. With such a "generous gift", we must actually upgrade for free.

360 Win10 Upgrade Assistant: The server is busy and cannot be upgraded temporarily

First, we download Windows 10 Upgrade Assistant from the 360 ​​official website's free Windows 10 page. Interestingly, a few days ago, the download here was only a 2MB file, but now it is directly downloading 360 Security Guard. It seems that 360's "family bucket" has been freshly released. After downloading and installing, open 360 Security Guard, and there is an upgrade assistant in the lower right corner.

The upgrade assistant detected that the remaining space on the system disk of the computer we tested was insufficient, requiring at least 16G of remaining space, while the previous tool only required 10G of remaining space. However, 360 still very considerately suggested a solution: reducing the system disk size. This deserves praise for 360, which is more user-friendly than Tencent's upgrade assistant.

After successfully solving the remaining space and activation issues, we used the Upgrade Assistant to test again, and the result surprised us: we actually need to make an appointment?

The 360 ​​Upgrade Assistant directly prompted that "the server is busy" and the appointment was set to a week later. At this point, we had to give up using the 360 ​​Upgrade Assistant to upgrade to Windows 10 and turned to Tencent for help.

Tencent Win10 Upgrade Assistant: Reminder immediately after Win10 is officially released?

Download the upgrade assistant from Tencent’s Win10 upgrade page, or the assistant is already built into Tencent PC Manager.

After the detection, the system actually needs 20GB of remaining space (Tencent, is your family bucket that big?), and it also prompts that the network card does not support Win10 (the test machine uses a Killer network card), and there is also a funny "participate in the lottery". My goodness, I just want to upgrade to Win10. For the same computer, the 360 ​​Upgrade Assistant does not have this prompt that the network card is not supported, and the Tencent Assistant does not provide a solution to the problem.

Even if we change to a computer that meets the requirements, it will only prompt us to make an appointment immediately:

Seeing the picture above, you may feel a little bit amused. Tencent's Win10 Upgrade Assistant actually prompts "You will be notified to upgrade when Win10 is officially released in June" and "You will be reminded as soon as Win10 is officially released". Brother, why do I feel like we are not from the same world?

In the end, we didn’t succeed in upgrading to Windows 10 for free, but judging from the performance of these two upgrade assistants, 360 is obviously much better, and it feels like Tencent’s upgrade assistant is just doing the job.

The truth: Due to too many problems, 360 and Tencent have suspended Win10 upgrades

It seems that we are not the only ones who failed to successfully upgrade for free. The latest news is that 360 and Tencent have both issued announcements stating that some users encountered upgrade failures, repeated restarts, blue screens and other problems during the upgrade process. It was finally confirmed that the problem was due to incompatibility between the user's computer environment and the Win10 system, so both companies have suspended the free Windows 10 upgrade service.

Yesterday, Windows 10 was the most Chinese version, but today it started to slap its face. I don’t know whether Microsoft should blame 360/Tencent for being stupid teammates, or 360/Tencent should scold Microsoft for “cheating”. In short, this free lunch is not delicious.

As a winner of Toutiao's Qingyun Plan and Baijiahao's Bai+ Plan, the 2019 Baidu Digital Author of the Year, the Baijiahao's Most Popular Author in the Technology Field, the 2019 Sogou Technology and Culture Author, and the 2021 Baijiahao Quarterly Influential Creator, he has won many awards, including the 2013 Sohu Best Industry Media Person, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Beijing Third Place, the 2015 Guangmang Experience Award, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Finals Third Place, and the 2018 Baidu Dynamic Annual Powerful Celebrity.