Windows 10: M$ block my key

Ha! I totally understand THAT. Usually what I do is I keep the Predictive Text bar showing, that way I can just choose the text I have just input (showing on the left) and it won't autocorrect. Took me a while to get used to it. What I hate with iOS 7 and 8 is that Siri no longer uses the user dictionary that gets built as it learns what words you use, under iOS 6 I could add commonly used words to Siri and then she'd use those words in certain contexts. But with iOS 7 and 8 you have to use the predictive text bar.

 

And that is exactly what Microsoft tells you what they think how OEM licenses are working. I am glad that such a restriction is not possible in my country.

 

I upgraded a retail Windows 8.1 Pro installation to Windows 10 Pro on a Samsung 840 Pro SSD in my desktop. I bought a new Samsung 850 Pro SSD (to move the 840 Pro to a laptop), replaced the 840 Pro and installed Windows 10 Pro from DVD media I created with the Media Creation Tool on the fresh 850 Pro. I never entered a key or code of any sort and my installation went flawlessly and was activated on completion. Once the install was up and running I flattened the 840 and proceeded to update my laptop....

Something in your process is off....are you absolutely positive the underlying windows key was retail? I've updated about 7 windows installs to Windows 10 (including 3 VMs) and had absolutely no issues but the desktop was the only one where I replaced hardware AFTER the update and reinstalled. The laptop I replaced the drive with the 840 SSD couldn't update with it's existing drive configuration (Lenovo Y580 with 32GB SSD and 1TB HD), so I had to re-install windows 7 on it to update to 10. So the hardware replacement was before the update to Windows 10.

Other than the issue I had with the Lenovo, the update and activation process has worked as Microsoft has specified it would work. I wonder if I swap out a drive on one of my laptops and reload - would it work as well, since those are OEM copies of windows. I would hope it would - Microsoft should only be using hardware hashes of the motherboard and CPU for system identification.