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.

  • 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.