Bad news for those planning to activate Windows 11 with a Windows 7 or 8/8.1 key: users noticed that the latest Windows 11 preview builds no longer allow activation with old license keys.

You can no longer activate new Windows 11 builds with Windows 7 or 8 keys::Bad news for those planning to activate Windows 11 with a Windows 7 or 8/8.1 key: users noticed that the latest Windows 11 preview builds no longer allow activation with old license keys.

  • orclev@lemmy.worldEnglish
    253·
    1 year ago

    I mean, you’d have to want to activate a Windows 11 build in the first place. I’m doing just fine on Windows 10 and don’t see any reason at all to “upgrade”. Let’s see if they can manage not to bake ads and tracking into whatever comes after 11 and I’ll consider it then.

    • peastea@feddit.deEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      Not a problem right now but Windows 10 is reaching its end of support two years from now in Oct 2025.

      • Jimbo@yiffit.netEnglish
        153·
        1 year ago

        When Windows 10 launched, wasn’t it said that this would be the “last” version of Windows and it would just get continually updated?

        • kalleboo@lemmy.worldEnglish
          61·
          1 year ago

          Yeah but then Apple dropped their longstanding practice of naming MacOS releases 10.x and went to MacOS 11 and if there’s one thing that Microsoft can never resist it’s copying Apple.

        • jose1324@lemmy.worldEnglish
          41·
          1 year ago

          No. This was one engineer that said that en everyone ran with it. Microsoft officially never said this

          • BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            4·
            1 year ago

            everyone ran with it

            Because everyone wanted it to be true. Everyone wanted to just have stability and no more radical interface changes.

      • mxcory@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Personally, that is when I intend to switch to Linux. Will give 2 years of more proton, and wine, updates for me.