The loophole is no more.

Microsoft ends free upgrade from Windows 7 to 11::undefined

    • phillaholicEnglish
      2•2 years ago

      Probably Grey Market keys being taken from old Business Win7 machines that are getting wasted in bulk if I had to guess.

    • @doktorseven@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3•2 years ago

      You mean 2000 was the last tolerable version of Windows.

      Everything since has been just the irritating pile of trash anyone doing anything decent with has had to put up with. Linux is nice to play around with but I sure the fuck have a long list of shit that isn’t going to magically work on it.

  • @droidpenguin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12•2 years ago

    I enjoyed my time with Windows 7. I even remember the Windows 7 launch party marketing. Never upgraded to 10, certainly not upgrading to 11. Happy with my adventures in Linux.

    • @Hubi@feddit.deEnglish
      3•2 years ago

      I loved Windows 7. The reason I ended up switching to Linux is (ironically) that I felt like the KDE desktop was closer to Windows 7 than the tiled start menu that Windows 8.0 had.

  • @Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5•2 years ago

    Last version of Windows I used was XP, Switched to Linux in 2005.

    Boy it was a cool period to buy premium 2nd hand hardware when Vista came out. Because the hardware wasn’t supported on Vista.

  • nostradielEnglish
    4•2 years ago

    Who cares when you have the github script.

    And Linux…

    • @scarilog@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7•2 years ago

      MAS was actually using this method for activation. Now that it doesn’t work, this particular activation method within MAS also doesn’t work.

  • @mitrosus@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    1•2 years ago

    I want to run win 10 (or 11 if supports) on a VM with a GNU/Linux host. I have heard about ltsc and ltsb, and now this post has mentioned oo shutup 10. So which one is better to make my win machine lightweight and privacy friendly? I am planning to run only certain specific program like SPSS. No heavy gaming. Thanks.