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.

  • orclev@lemmy.worldEnglish
    193·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • peastea@feddit.deEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

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

      • Jimbo@yiffit.netEnglish
        111·
        1 year ago

        When Windows 10 launched, wasn't it said that this would be the "last" version of Windows and it would just get continually updated?

      • mxcory@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Personally, that is when I intend to switch to Linux. Will give 2 years of more proton, and wine, updates for me.

      • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        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)

      • ekky43@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        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.