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Windows Ends Installation Path for Free Windows 7/8 Upgrade

by ChiptuneIsCool on 9/29/23, 8:07 PM with 3 comments

• by ChiptuneIsCool on 9/29/23, 8:14 PM

  The free upgrade from win 7 keys was used for years as a way to permanently activate any copy of windows using a tool called MAS[1]

  [1] https://massgrave.dev/index.html

• by orionblastar on 9/29/23, 8:26 PM

  Nothing lasts forever. Pirates just use hacktivation tools without a key.

  Windows 10 was too slow on my Acer laptop so I did a free upgrade to Ubuntu. :)

• by devwastaken on 9/30/23, 7:58 AM

  Windows is ad infested and makes money selling user data. Microsoft already treats paid users like free ones. There is no sense in being a paid user. The product isn't even respectable to buy. No innovation is supported.

  Apple has already won the computing space. Look at the windows surface laptop. Copy+paste. Windows UI design. Copy+paste.