Windows 10: Is my Digital License legal?

Is my Digital License legal?Hi, I've never purchased Windows from Microsoft however it is showing that I have a digital license key. N.B this laptop came pre-installed with windows but later on the drive was replaced where the pre-installed windows 10 was originally stored in. Later on when I installed windows here with a USB it never asked me for a license key, I'm also signing in from a different miscrosoft account from the first one. Is this activated windows legal?

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Is my Digital License legal?

Is my Digital License legal?

Hi, I've never purchased Windows from Microsoft however it is showing that I have a digital license key. N.B this laptop came pre-installed with windows but later on the drive was replaced where the pre-installed windows 10 was originally stored in. Later on when I installed windows here with a USB it never asked me for a license key, I'm also signing in from a different miscrosoft account from the first one. Is this activated windows legal?

 

Legal Digital License.

Way back in July, 2015 when Windows 10 first went RTM, it seemed like some people who were on the insider builds of Windows 10 ended up getting permanent digital licenses for Windows 10 even though they had no previously qualifying OS to base it on. I suspect that might be where the license for Windows 10 Pro came from in this situation. But without having a specific upgrade path to Windows 10 Pro from a known license source such as Windows 7 or 8 Pro or Ultimate it's more difficult to determine what is wrong.

If you install Windows 10 Home, you will get a known good and permanent license that can be tracked back to the Windows 8 Product Key in the computer's bios/UEFI. Then you will be able to upgrade that Windows 10 Home to Windows 10 Pro just by changing the product key to the generic Windows 10 Pro product key you have now. If Microsoft activates it, well at least they say you have a license for Windows 10 Pro. This would fix any corruption in the license files that Superfly is suspecting. If Microsoft will not activate the Windows 10 Pro - then you can re-install Windows 10 Home and know you should have the digital license for that stored on Microsoft activation servers. Installing an activating a Windows 10 Home now is your safety net.

 

Digital license

Thats how licensing works with Windows 10, the digital license is attached to your Microsoft Account and makes it easy to reactivate Windows 10 in the event you reinstall it.

Learn more:

• Use a Digital
  License to Manage and Activate Windows 10