![]() The Windows 10 free upgrade applies to licensed owners/users of non-volume-licensed Windows 7 and Windows 8. ![]() Q: What version of Windows 10 is the free offer for? Without further ado, here are our findings.Īny retail customers of Microsoft Windows, running an activated, up-to-date version of Windows 7, Windows 8, or Windows 8.1 are eligible to redeem a free upgrade to Windows 10, provided they do so before the end of July 2016. And we’ve been replying to these emails on a case-by-case basis as our developers and testers have been putting Windows 10 (and by extension, its activation servers) through the works to try and figure out, all FUD aside, what really is the deal with activating Windows 10. ![]() Who is entitled to a free copy of Windows 10, can you activate with your existing product key, what happens when you want to perform a clean install, how does Windows 10 activation work, who is covered by the free Windows 10 upgrade license, and more are questions going through everyone’s head.Įver since Microsoft released Windows 10 last week, we’ve been receiving a flurry of emails pertaining to our free Product Key Tool for Windows, used to recover or retrieve the product key embedded in the BIOS/UEFI that can be used to activate a copy of whatever version of Windows your PC shipped with. But unlike any other Windows release ever before, the situation with licensing and upgrades is quite different – and rather unclear.
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