But with the free Windows 10 upgrade offer coming to a close, I noted in Get Windows 10? Now What? a few weeks ago that I expected this capability to end. That said, Microsoft won’t confirm the date.Īs you may recall, Microsoft has allowed customers to use to use valid Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 product keys to activate Windows 10 since last October. Only temporarily: The ability to activate Windows 10 with a valid Windows 7 or 8.x product key is indeed temporary and will be shut down at some point in the future. Can I keep activating Windows 10 using a Windows 7/8.x product key? Why Microsoft isn’t more forthcoming with this critical information is unclear.
Thanks to some internal Microsoft documentation I recently saw, I can now publicly reveal the answers to your burning Windows 10 activation questions.
