<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, 15 Apr 2021 at 12:05, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <<a href="mailto:talk@gtalug.org">talk@gtalug.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>There was a limited time where you could update pre Win 10 systems to Win <br>
10 without buying a new license. If you did that, Microsoft recorded this <br>
fact in their central system.<br>
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That period is over.<br><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>No, it's not. Windows will no longer deliver the upgrade tool via automatic update, but you can download it here — <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10ISO">https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10ISO</a> — via the <i>Create Windows 10 Media Installation</i> tool. It will definitely upgrade Windows 8 (as that's what would install on my laptop) and may do Windows 7 too.</div><div><br></div><div>This means I bought an unnecessary (by anyone's definition) Windows 10 Pro licence. It wasn't as cheap as Evan's copy (it's from a more-legit source), but it was still about $60. Quite a lot for one line of text ...</div><div><br></div><div> Stewart<br></div></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><br></div></div>