If you do nothing, the new feature update will eventually download and install automatically, based on your Windows Update settings. Also: Here's how you can still get a free Windows 10 upgrade.

Don't want to fork over $30 for a one-year subscription to Windows 10 Extended Security Updates? Microsoft is offering a ...

Ever since Microsoft launched Windows 10 over the summer, Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 users have been pressured to upgrade to the latest version of the operating system.

Those options include syncing settings to the cloud to receive a year of Windows 10 security updates for free or paying $30 ...

Windows 10 Pro and Enterprise will receive additional update controls in the Settings app. These will allow to set policy-based deferrals to updates, that is without requiring Group Policy tweaks.

I personally took the upgrade-in-place option when I installed Windows 10. At the time, I was using a five-year-old Windows 7 installation that I'd already carted across three different motherboards.