On Thu, 15 Apr 2021 at 12:05, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
There was a limited time where you could update pre Win 10 systems to Win 10 without buying a new license. If you did that, Microsoft recorded this fact in their central system.
That period is over.
No, it's not. Windows will no longer deliver the upgrade tool via automatic update, but you can download it here — https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10ISO — via the *Create Windows 10 Media Installation* tool. It will definitely upgrade Windows 8 (as that's what would install on my laptop) and may do Windows 7 too. 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 ... Stewart