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 ...

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 ...

Download the Windows 7 Beta 32-bit version. Download the Windows 7 Beta 64-bit version. What we're waiting on right now are the 2.5 million product keys Microsoft said they'd start handing out at ...

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 ...

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.

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.