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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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[–] orclev 22 points 1 year ago (17 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Not a problem right now but Windows 10 is reaching its end of support two years from now in Oct 2025.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (8 children)

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 5 points 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.

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