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You're thinking too hard.

It means if you install Windows 10 during the free period, it will be as if you bought a normal Windows license.

Do you have a source for this, or is it just your assumption?

"Supported lifetime for the device" does not necessarily mean "supported lifetime for Windows 10." Although your interpretation may be correct, they have (intentionally or otherwise) used ambiguous wording in how they describe this.

That's not what they said though. That's what they want you to understand.

If they meant that, they would have said that. There's a reason they chose the language they did.

That's what they mean. You are listening/reading into it too much. Every Windows has a number of years for support, and this number can change. The number has never decreased and has only increased in the past because people/companies were too slow at getting rid of old Windows (e.g. Windows XP). We do not know what the actual number of years Microsoft is going to support for Windows 10, but I bet it's going to be around 10 years just like other Windows.

Check http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/lifecycle for the current list of Windows.

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