1y ago

You can no longer activate new Windows 11 builds with Windows 7 or 8 keys

www.neowin.net 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.

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.

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meiko60 @lemmy.sdf.org

1y ago

You can no longer activate new Windows 11 builds with Windows 7 or 8 keys

www.neowin.net /news/you-can-no-longer-activate-new-windows-11-builds-with-windows-7-or-8-keys/

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Raisin8659 @monyet.cc

1y ago

You can no longer activate new Windows 11 builds with Windows 7 or 8 keys; maybe last chance to activate using Windows 7 or 8 keys, for 22H2.

www.neowin.net /news/you-can-no-longer-activate-new-windows-11-builds-with-windows-7-or-8-keys/

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That's fine. But the chances of me giving Microsoft money for a copy of windows in 2024 is zero. I think that's true of pretty much everyone.
- Yep and for your hundreds of dollars they serve ads all over your desktop.
  
  From what I have seen you can get a copy of pro from some 3rd party sites on sale for like $30 and around $50 normally. I would be ok with $30 but no way would I ever spend over $100.
- Right? They try to make us the product by hard baking invasive telemetry into windows. Then want us to pay for it too? Nawh.
- Most people buying a non-apple pre built machine or a laptop don't really have a choice. Microsoft subsidized their hardware so that they end up "buying" windows regardless. Especially regarding laptops, there just isn't always an option for buying the hardware and specs you want without getting Windows bundled by default. OEM bundling and business licenses are what's keeping Windows dominant in desktop market share. They don't need individuals to choose Windows, the choice has likely already been made for them.

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.
- Not a problem right now but Windows 10 is reaching its end of support two years from now in Oct 2025.
  
  When Windows 10 launched, wasn't it said that this would be the "last" version of Windows and it would just get continually updated?
  
  Personally, that is when I intend to switch to Linux. Will give 2 years of more proton, and wine, updates for me.
- Skip every other windows version. 11 is a skip version
  
  Everything since 7 has been a skip. 10 only seemed good for a short while because of how poorly 8 was received.
  But that didn't last long when MS kept updating it with more and more bloat, more and more telemetry, and more and more dark patterns.
  When Win10 came out, it was more performant than Win7. Now it bogs down and feels sluggish even on systems with gen4 NVME drives.
  There are some aspects of Win11 that I like, but they took the bad stuff with 10 and turned it up to 11 (hehe)
  
  TBH, Win10 was a skip version too. Don't think I've ever had THAT many problems with a Windows system I willingly used. Even Vista was better.

Still works with Windows 10 keys, however. Makes sense since Windows 8 and earlier are EOL now. Also, you don't have to activate Windows if you don't want to, it'll just bug you occasionally.

Definitely don't paste this into cmd if your windows is still inactivated: irm https://massgrave.dev/get | iex
- Actually it's also affected for HWID activation. From the link you posted:
  Microsoft servers are currently rejecting HWID activation requests when activating through MAS, we’re checking what’s going on now. Use the KMS38 activation option for now.
  
  Thanks, good to know
- If I could upvote you more than once, I would! Thank you for the info!!

can you at least activate windows 7 with windows 11 keys?

Can I license Windows 10 with a Windows 7 key and then upgrade to Windows 11?
Surely they wouldn’t revoke your license after the upgrade.

Came to lemmy to ask about this. I suddenly see the overlay of "Activation Windows." I'm using a key from Windows 7 Ultimate. Fuck Microsoft, thanks for making me finally pull the trigger on Linux, ya fuck wads.

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