Why you should upgrade to Windows 10 before July 30

If you’re a Windows 7 or Windows 8 user reading this article before July 30, 2016, you have less than one week to get Windows 10 for free. At 11:59 p.m. UTC-10 on July 29 (2:59 a.m. Pacific and 5:59 a.m. Eastern on July 30), the free Windows 10 upgrade will no longer be available. After that time, you’ll have to get Windows 10 the old-fashioned way: buy it outright ($120 for Home and $200 for Pro) or buy a new computer that comes with it.

There’s really no reason not to upgrade. In fact, if you upgrade and you don’t like Windows 10, you can simply downgrade back. Within the first month of upgrading to Windows 10, you can go back to your previous version of Windows (Settings => Update & security => Recovery) quite easily. And even if you wait more than a month, you can often choose to restore your device to factory settings or simply reinstall an older version of Windows with the original installation media.