Microsoft has confirmed that if you install Windows 10 on a PC that previously ran a genuine copy of Windows 7, 8 or 8.1 that you will be able to use the product key from that earlier operating system to activate Windows 10. The changes to activation allow the user to simply enter a Windows 7, 8 or 8.1 key to activate a clean install of Windows in many instances. Unfortunately in some instances the system failed to automatically activate Windows 10 and users had to reinstall the old copy of Windows and upgrade to Windows 10 again to get it to activate.įrom the latest build of Windows 10 onwards users should be able to bypass a lot of these issues. If Windows 10 was then reinstalled on the same machine - provided the PC's hardware hadn't significantly changed - it would be matched against this database and the OS would be automatically activated. Once upgraded that PC would be logged in a Microsoft database of computers licensed to run Windows 10.
The system required the user to first upgrade a Windows 7 or 8.1 machine to Windows 10. This is significant because earlier builds of Windows 10 would not accept these keys and were activated using an automated system.
In tests of the latest preview build of Windows 10, product keys from Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 were successfully used to activate clean installs of Windows 10 - on a machine that previously had Windows installed and on PCs where Windows had never been installed. These changes should make life easier for users of Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 when they upgrade to or reinstall Windows 10. To address these stumbling blocks, Microsoft has simplified the way that Windows 10 is activated - the process of verifying that a copy of Windows is genuine. The process of upgrading to Microsoft's Windows 10 OS has proved anything but straightforward for some users.
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