Tiny (20-07-19)
Bumping.
Officially MS is still offering 'free' upgrades for 7/8/8.1 (Pro) only if you purchase at least one year's monthly subscription (12 x US$20) for Microsoft 365 Business. (Look under "Can I get a free upgrade to Windows 10?")
Unofficially (albeit apparently with their full knowledge) there's no problem upgrading any previously validated 7 or 8.1 OS. I'm surprised that MS is still quietly allowing upgrades from 7/8.1 to 10 even though it's now quite sometime since even the dodgy "assistive technology offer" ended. The servers will still issue a digital licence for a Win 10 install provided either (1) a valid 7 or 8.1 product key is entered, or (2) you use gatherosstate.exe from win10 install Sources folder to generate GenuineTicket.xml on the Win7 intended to be upgraded as a clean install, or (3) an in-place upgrade is performed on a valid existing Win 7/8.1 installation.
Clearly Redmond's intention is that they want to be rid of older OSs by hook or by crook. It seems a little strange that publicly they want ppl to pay big bucks for a Win 10 upgrade while simultaneously allowing it for nix to anyone who's a bit PC savvy. Double standard?
It will be interesting to see if these 'backdoor' upgrade methods still work for Win 7 once support ends in mid Jan 2020.
Tiny (20-07-19)
win 10, pre hacktivated
updated to july 19
dark theme
rufus usb tool, 15 min clean install
https://www.facebook.com/philquad68
Uncle Fester (20-07-19)
I still have a 10 installed that was never activated and runs fine for what I use it for.
Pretty sure I used the original iso that I downloaded for free on the MS-web site.
The watermark doesn't bother me.
Not sure what would happen if I would ever go online with it though, probably just a few nag screens.
Last edited by Uncle Fester; 20-07-19 at 09:07 PM.
Update: A deletion of features that work well and ain't broke but are deemed outdated in order to add things that are up to date and broken.
Compatibility: A word soon to be deleted from our dictionaries as it is outdated.
Humans: Entities that are not only outdated but broken... AI-self-learning-update-error...terminate...terminate...
It's perfectly legal ATM to run Win 10 unactivated and there are only a few 'eye candy' things missing. Everything updates normally, so really no big deal. At some point they may pull the pin on that too and introduce a 'trial period' i'd reckon.
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