After a daylong rollercoaster drama during which Windows 7 Beta gave us a false-alarm release followed by a server smackdown, Microsoft is finally handing out honest to goodness product keys for ...

Reader Digerati offers detailed instructions for getting your Windows 7 beta product key which worked for me (when last night's did not). Here's what you do. Tip: You can use the 64-bit during a ...

That $40 Windows 8 Pro upgrade is available to Windows XP, Vista, and Windows 7 users who purchased computers before June 2. If you don't want digital download, you'll need to cough up almost $70 ...

In spite of the official end of the free Windows 10 update offer on July 29, it seems any valid Windows 7/8.x retail product key still installs Windows 10 for now.

Microsoft has stopped allowing users to activate Windows 11 and 10 installations with Windows 7 and 8 product keys. This is because they have stopped supporting these older operating systems.

At least for now, though, it seems like this change will only apply to future Windows versions. We were able to activate a fresh Windows 11 Pro 22H2 install with a Windows 8 Pro product key as of ...

The hack which many have taken advantage of, using Windows 7/8's old product keys to install the latest OS including Windows 10 and 11 is now gone, as Microsoft enforced a new directive for this.