On Wednesday, 8 January 2020 16:42:14 GMT Wols Lists wrote: > On 08/01/20 09:26, Mick wrote: > > The OS Product Key for a Win 7 will not work on a Win 10, unless the free > > upgrade option had been performed before July 2016. At least it has not > > worked here ... You'll need a Product Key, Digital License, or a > > Microsoft > > Account which has been linked to an activated Windows 10 Digital License. > > I don't know what the date MS announced was, but this tactic certainly > worked after that - I did it myself. The key statement there is "NEVER > been used". If MS recognises the key, it will fail.
This is interesting! By a Win7 key which has "never been used" do you mean not even used for activating the Win7 OS? Or never been used to upgrade Win7 to Win10? > (I'm actually going to have a crack at it myself again, I've just > acquired a Win7 laptop - nice spec - that's pretty much unaltered > original so I'm guessing it's never been re-installed and the key used.) > > Cheers, > Wol Please let us know how this goes. I have Win7 & Win8.1 installations on various laptops and these were not upgraded to Win10 before the expiry deadline of Jul 2016 and could potentially use them on VMs for testing. -- Regards, Mick
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