Windows 10: Who Bought a Licence For $2 in the Store?

Looks like you got lucky:

Microsoft to honour $2 Windows 10 Pro key loophole sales | bit-tech.net

:)

 

Can I have the win 10 upgrade in a separate partition?

Andre

There it does appear that anyone who originally had Windows 7 and bought a Windows 8 licence for them to remove Windows 8 which would allow Windows 7 to be upgraded, and continue to have the Windows 8 licence. Not sure why anyone would want to do that but
I have seen this suggested on another website.

 

Will I be able to transfer my Windows 10 Pro license to another computer?

My upgrade path is as follows, and I'm trying to determine if I can transfer my Windows 10 Pro licence:

• Bought PC[1] with Windows 7 Home, and then purchased an upgrade to Windows 8.1 Pro
  
  during a promotion
• Bought PC[2] with Windows 8.1 Home, and transferred the Windows 8.1 Pro to the new machine (rolling back PC[1] to the original Windows 7 Home licence)
• Updated PC[2] to Windows 10 Pro this fall.
• Bought PC[3] over Boxing day with Windows 10 Home.

Can I now transfer the Pro licence from PC[2] to PC[3] (rolling back PC[2] to Windows 8.1 Home, and then upgrading to Windows 10 Home?

 

Aw, they were $2? I wanted to upgrade my computer to Pro, but the store app refused to work. I ended up having to do a clean reinstall after the 29th.

 

"Wot's a Licence !!!!".

I've got a whole slew of TechNet keys that I never used --Like a lot of people I'm sure at the end of the TechNet program who did the same I just gobbled up as many keys as I could -- still got around 5 VL (multiple activations) of W7/W8/W8.1 still (all versions from Starter to Enterprise) so I think I've got enough here to get Free W10 for LIFE. !!! I never actually used any of that stuff after the program ended but I'm glad I kept them.

The TechNet keys DO activate - I used a couple yesterday creating two W10 machines -- one a laptop and another a desktop.

@ Old TechNet subscribers --you can STILL get your Licence keys that you retrieved when your subscription expired -- you won't get the ISO's but any Clean ISO will work. Install the OLD OS, activate with TechNet Key and then you can get the FREE W10 upgrade.

VL keys can be activated at least 50 times !!!!!!! I won't create that many W10 installation though !!

Cheers
jimbo

 

I missed out too, but no problem.

 

In the article:

 

People who want a cheap licence can get it easily.
I have got 8.1 Pro for $12 on g2a, currently costs $20.

 

I got it less than $2. It's called free. I know they where upgrading from home.

 

Yes a free upgrade for the OS that you paid for, with a non-transferable licence.

Not a new, transferable, OS licence for $2.

 

Nope it was a gift from a friend. It's still free.*Smile