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Re:Nebraska farmers vote overwhelmingly for Right to Repair by blcArmadillo on Monday December 16, 2019 @09:35PM (#21809989)
As an aside the free upgrade still works. You can get it from http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkId=616447. Just updated my grandma's computer two days ago from Windows 7.
Re:Nebraska farmers vote overwhelmingly for Right to Repair by MertsA on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @12:10AM (#21810816)
It works, it activates, and Windows will say it's genuine if you ever reinstall windows from scratch on that machine but technically you don't have a valid license for Windows 10. It's a complete non-issue for personal use and Microsoft is blatantly still allowing the upgrade process and issuing digital entitlements, but for a business this would cause you to fail an audit and need to pay up to license Windows 10. Basically it's a free upgrade for home users but no different than pirating Windows for businesses.