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You can no longer activate new Windows 11 builds with Windows 7 or 8 keys (www.neowin.net)

submitted 2 years ago by L4s@lemmy.world [M, B] to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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.

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[–] jose1324@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

No. This was one engineer that said that en everyone ran with it. Microsoft officially never said this

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[–] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago

everyone ran with it

Because everyone wanted it to be true. Everyone wanted to just have stability and no more radical interface changes.

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