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Microsoft has already promised that people currently running Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 on their devices will be able to upgrade to Windows 10 for free when the software is released later this year. Now the company has clarified that that generosity extends even to those running pirated copies of Windows software.

If youre running a recent Windows operating system -- legally or illegally -- youll be able to upgrade to a legitimate copy of Windows 10 for free.

Microsoft is likely making this move in order to bring as many people as possible into the legal-software fold. Its easier for the company to support as many licensed copies of Windows 10 as possible than it is to deal with millions of pirated versions of Microsoft software. Microsoft will try to make up any lost revenue by selling Microsoft Office and other software to newly-licensed Windows 10 users.

The announcement came from Microsoft executive Terry Myerson, who spoke on Wednesday at the Windows Hardware Engineering Community summit in Shenzen, China. Three-quarters of all computer software in China is pirated or not properly licensed, Reuters Bill Rigby reports. Microsoft will partner with hardware maker Lenovo, Chinese security company Qihoo 360, and social networking company Tencent to distribute Windows 10 in China.

Mr. Myerson also gave a better idea of the release date and scope for Windows 10. The software will be available globally sometime this summer, he said at the summit, and will launch in 190 countries.

Windows 10 will be able to run on laptop and desktop computers, tablets, and smart phones -- including some Android devices. Chinese phone giant Xiaomi, which has been making headlines as it considers expanding into American and European markets, will work with Microsoft to offer some users a test version of Windows on smart phones currently running Android. Several popular smart phone systems-on-chips, including some built by Qualcomm, AMD, and Intel, will support Windows 10.

If youre planning to run the new operating system on a computer, youll need at least 1 GB of RAM and 16 GB of hard drive space (or double that if you want to run the 64-bit version of Windows 10). Mobile devices will need at least 512 MB of RAM (or more if you have a high-definition screen) and a minimum of 4 GB of storage space.

Those systems requirements are pretty light -- and in fact, ever since Windows 7, Microsoft has tried to make sure its operating systems dont tax users hardware too much. After all, the more computers that support the new OS, the more people will consider upgrading to Windows 10 and purchasing other software from Microsoft.

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We must design free hardware. But the question remains: how?

First, we must understand why we cant make hardware free the same way we make software free. Hardware and software are fundamentally different. A program, even in compiled executable form, is a collection of data which can be interpreted as instruction for a computer. Like any other digital work, it can be copied and changed using a computer. A copy of a program has no inherent physical form or embodiment.

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Dr. Richard Stallman launched the free software movement in 1983 and started the development of the GNU operating system in 1984. GNU is _free software_: everyone is free to copy it and redistribute it, with or without changes. The GNU/Linux system is used on tens of millions of computers today.

By contrast, hardware is a physical structure and its physicality is crucial. While the hardwares design might be represented as data, in some cases even as a program, the design is not the hardware. A design for a CPU cant execute a program. You wont get very far trying to type on a design for a keyboard or display pixels on a design for a screen.

Furthermore, while you can use a computer to modify or copy the hardware design, a computer cant convert the design into the physical structure it describes. That requires fabrication equipment.

Software has levels of implementation; a package might include libraries, commands and scripts, for instance. But these levels dont make a significant difference for software freedom because it is feasible to make all the levels free. Designing components of a program is the same sort of work as designing the code that combines them; likewise, building the components from source is the same sort of operation as building the combined program from source. To make the whole thing free simply requires continuing the work until we have done the whole job.

Therefore, we insist that a program be free at all levels. For a program to qualify as free, every line of the source code that composes it must be free, so that you can rebuild the program out of free source code alone.

Physical objects, by contrast, are often built out of components that are designed and built in a different kind of factory. For instance, a computer is made from chips, but designing (or fabricating) chips is very different from designing (or fabricating) the computer out of chips.

Thus, we need to distinguish levels in the design of a digital product (and maybe some other kinds of products). The circuit that connects the chips is one level; each chips design is another level. In an FPGA, the interconnection of primitive cells is one level, while the primitive cells themselves are another level. In the ideal future we will want the design be free at all levels. Under present circumstances, just making one level free is a significant advance.

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