As ever, that depends on what you want to do with it and how much budget is at your disposal. I have done paid speaking engagements for Microsoft and some of its partners, but none where all the content is not my own. I do not own Microsoft stock or stock in any of its partners or competitors. Send her an email with your rants, rumors, tips, and tattles.Ĭonfidentiality guaranteed. But as of now, it is rolling out to testers in the near-final Release Preview channel. David made the leap from print to online publishing in, when he joined Ziff-Net's Software Library. If your PC already has a Pro license, don't enter a product key when reinstalling.
Enter a product key here and then follow the prompts. Now, let's address the elephant in the room. These are all OEM keys and likely can't be used on another computer after you activate them on the first one. You can see if your school is eligible and download your free Windows 11 key here. The good news is that you only have two serious disadvantages from not activating Windows 10 or However, if you are using a Microsoft account that syncs with another computer on which you have custom wallpaper, that wallpaper will appear on your unactivated Windows.īut come on does anyone actually do that? Other than those inconveniences, unactivated Windows should work just fine and receive automatic updates too. Feel free to try it, though, because if it works you have Windows 10 or 11 for free. Note that if the product key comes from a prebuilt computer that came from the factory with Windows on it, it has an OEM key that may not work on a different new PC. If you need help finding the product key on your old computer, there are several ways to find it, but using Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder, a free download, is probably the easiest. If you have an old, retail non-OEM copy of Windows 7, 8 or 10 you are no longer using on another PC, you can likely use the product key when you do a fresh install of Windows on your new PC. If you are still on Windows 7 or 8, you can upgrade to Windows 10 for free. During installation, Microsoft asks you to enter a Windows 10 or 11 product key.
Once that's done, you can boot from your installation media and start the process. Microsoft offers a free media creation tool, which grabs the latest code from the Internet and then burns itself to a USB Flash drive or outputs a Windows 10 or Windows 11 ISO file you can write to a drive yourself. And, in fact, you should only download it from Microsoft, as grabbing it from any other site or from a P2P network could give you malware. No matter how or whether you pay for it, you can download Windows 10 opens in new tab or download Windows 11 opens in new tab for free from Microsoft.
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