Future of Dual Boot with Windows 10

[ahhaa]

There is a useful article by Ed Bott of zdnet about some peculiarities of getting a clean install of Windows 10 onto a machine that has had a trial version onto it already, and he details a path through the screens, installing from an iso or flash drive, etc.
http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-quietly-rewrites-its-activation-rules-for-windows-10

This and a couple other articles seem to indicate that win10 must constantly communicate with M$ servers, which got me to wondering...

If you have a machine with linux aboard along with say win7, will grub deal with the various changes made to this unique installation process?

btw, if you plan on upgrading that mobo, do it now or you will actually have to get permission from Microsoft to upgrade...

[johns0]

That articlle is mostly true except for the oem version of replacing a motherboard at least for windows 7,i have upgraded my motherboard at least 5 times in the last 6 years since i bought my win7 oem and a quick phone call to an automated service got my system activated each time,not sure how it will be with windows 10.

A trial version of windows 7,8 will always need to buy a valid license after updating to windows 10 after 30 days.