Organizing a strategy to outsmart Microsoft

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camchrism
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01-18-2016, 10:37 PM

I’m preparing for an upcoming build and need to install the system with the retail version of Windows 7. Once updates are applied, I plan to upgrade to Windows 10. Regarding the license key, will the old retail Win7 key remain valid after setting up Windows 10?

camchrism

01-18-2016, 10:37 PM #1

sonic3003
Member

210

01-20-2016, 08:03 AM

Consider the win 7 partition, upgrade to version 10 (break the key if needed), load the image, then disable the 7 partition.

sonic3003

01-20-2016, 08:03 AM #2

Consider the win 7 partition, upgrade to version 10 (break the key if needed), load the image, then disable the 7 partition.

Grggles
Member

163

02-09-2016, 11:50 PM

Windows 7 keys remain valid after upgrades. Microsoft is informed of your changes and will handle licensing properly.

Grggles

02-09-2016, 11:50 PM #3

Windows 7 keys remain valid after upgrades. Microsoft is informed of your changes and will handle licensing properly.

miknes123
Senior Member

646

02-14-2016, 02:30 AM

They’re essentially providing free Windows 10 keys even though I can use a Windows 7 key on another machine. Correct?

miknes123

02-14-2016, 02:30 AM #4

They’re essentially providing free Windows 10 keys even though I can use a Windows 7 key on another machine. Correct?

Joraemon
Junior Member

02-27-2016, 11:43 AM

In theory, that's the case. It seems they probably won't pay attention because for Windows 10, the updated keys that aren't serial keys now let Windows 7 keys work elsewhere.

Joraemon

02-27-2016, 11:43 AM #5

In theory, that's the case. It seems they probably won't pay attention because for Windows 10, the updated keys that aren't serial keys now let Windows 7 keys work elsewhere.