You Can Still Upgrade from Windows XP, Vista or Linux to Windows 10 for Just $10

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Windows 7 product keys sold online are quite cheap

Microsoft will soon end its free Windows 10 upgrade campaign, so users running Windows 7 or 8.1 have only a couple of months left to move to the new operating system.

But as far as users of older Windows versions, such as XP or Vista, and those who aren’t running Windows at all, do not have a direct upgrade method to Windows 10, so buying a license might be the only way to install the latest OS.

Fortunately, however, there’s still a way to move to Windows 10 for as low as $10 (9.99 EUR) until Microsoft pulls the plug on its free upgrade offer on July 29.

All you have to do is to buy yourself a cheap Windows 7 product key.

Windows 7 for the win

Basically, here’s what you have to do: search the web for free Windows 7 product keys, buy one, install Windows 7 on your PC, upgrade to Windows 10 using the direct upgrade system, and voila, you are now on Microsoft’s latest operating system without paying the full price (which by the way is no less than $119/110 EUR for the Home version).

And in case you think that finding a cheap Windows 7 license is difficult, it’s really not. The web is full of users or even retailers selling Windows 7 product keys for just a few dollars and you can find many of them on eBay. We won’t post a link to a specific seller, however, for obvious reasons, but it takes just a few seconds to find one (eBay also offers a money back guarantee, so if you are afraid that you’ll never get your license and lose your money, you’re fully covered).

There are sellers out there who guarantee that they’ll email a product key in a maximum of 60 seconds after paying for it, but make sure you always check out reviews, ratings, and feedback to buy from top-rated sellers.

Does this method come risk-free? Definitely not, but we’re hearing from some of our readers that everything worked smoothly and the Windows 10 license was activated successfully. In case you’re wondering, we’re not aware of any reports of people getting banned for this and as long as you buy a legitimate Windows 7 key, there’s actually no reason why this should happen.

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[AlexCross]

or Linux? :)) Are they that much desperate?

[Sylence]

34 minutes ago, AlexCross said:

or Linux? :)) Are they that much desperate?

 

The reason why it mentioned Linux there is just that this post is saying anyone can have a legitimate Windows 10 copy for few dollars regardless of their current OS, whether it be Mac OSX, Linux or different versions of Windows.

[AlexCross]

10 hours ago, saeed_dc said:

 

The reason why it mentioned Linux there is just that this post is saying anyone can have a legitimate Windows 10 copy for few dollars regardless of their current OS, whether it be Mac OSX, Linux or different versions of Windows.

 

But still, for me it doesn't make any sense, it's like saying that anyone can buy milk, like if there was any interdiction :))

[Sylence]

10 minutes ago, AlexCross said:

 

But still, for me it doesn't make any sense, it's like saying that anyone can buy milk, like if there was any interdiction :))

 

Think of it this way, you can go on and as always buy milk right now from the store for 10$, or, you can buy a 2$ coupon and buy your milk for free, simple as that;)  

Windows 7 product keys are like coupons here

[steven36]

59 minutes ago, AlexCross said:

 

But still, for me it doesn't make any sense, it's like saying that anyone can buy milk, like if there was any interdiction :))

It saying If you just have Windows XP,, Vista or Linux you can buy a windows 7 key for cheap  and update it to windows 10 . But this only looks good on paper its not reality   Most XP  boxes  never could run Vista  let alone Windows 7 , Windows 8.1 or Windows 10 and  many old Linux  Boxes  x86  were XP once so  good luck with this.

 

I had a newer XP  that I bought  in like 2010 I had to  order online  they made for people  who didn't want to buy Vista it came with 2GB of ram  it was crap with  windows 7 on it i could not even watch  videos x264  but 480p ... 720p would mess  up and 1080p was out of the question . Back in the early 2000s I bought  a XP  with a p4  processor for  over a $1000 now days people  put them in the trash and Linux geeks gets them out of the trash and fixes them up with Linux Distros  they cant handle windows 10 at all .

[AlexCross]

13 hours ago, steven36 said:

It saying If you just have Windows XP,, Vista or Linux you can buy a windows 7 key for cheap  and update it to windows 10 . But this only looks good on paper its not reality   Most XP  boxes  never could run Vista  let alone Windows 7 , Windows 8.1 or Windows 10 and  many old Linux  Boxes  x86  were XP once so  good luck with this.

 

I had a newer XP  that I bought  in like 2010 I had to  order online  they made for people  who didn't want to buy Vista it came with 2GB of ram  it was crap with  windows 7 on it i could not even watch  videos x264  but 480p ... 720p would mess  up and 1080p was out of the question . Back in the early 2000s I bought  a XP  with a p4  processor for  over a $1000 now days people  put them in the trash and Linux geeks gets them out of the trash and fixes them up with Linux Distros  they cant handle windows 10 at all .

 

Still it doesn't make too much sense to me

Let me tell you why, by having Linux, you exclude any corelations between prev versions of Windows and new ones, by excluding Linux you would say that you have to insert your old key of XP, Vista etc to convert it to a Windows 7/10key. But by listing Linux, it excludes this corelations, so what stops people who already have Windows 10 to buy another key or etc. Where was the interdiction before? What does Linux has to do with Windows 10, why not include Apple too 

 

We might have different ways of understanding things because of the region we live, but for me it doesn't make any sense. It would have if Linux weren't involved in this thing, as I explained in the process that I imagined written above.

 

There isn't such things as a windows xp/vista PC as many Apple customers think. The PC components aren't made by Microsoft! Microsoft develops just the OS. That's all.

 

Btw, Linux isn't for weak computers, you don't install any Linux distro because you can't run Windows on it, you do it because it's open source, it has all the tools preintegrated for a programmer/developer in it, and you don't have to pay any cent. Visual Studio costs ~ 10 000 $, you can have better alternatives in my opinion as open source, that are tested by millions of people around the world, not only by MS staff (which lost their technical ability in the last 5 years at least), and not to forget, you own the operating system, you are it's boss, you can control and change anything if you want, compared to Windows where the operating system controls you. In my region, Linux is more popular than Windows, even the gov is developing a version of Linux to ditch Windows.

[steven36]

57 minutes ago, AlexCross said:

Btw, Linux isn't for weak computers, you don't install any Linux distro because you can't run Windows on it, you do it because it's open source, it has all the tools preintegrated for a programmer/developer in it, and you don't have to pay any cent. Visual Studio costs ~ 10 000 $, you can have better alternatives in my opinion as open source, that are tested by millions of people around the world, not only by MS staff (which lost their technical ability in the last 5 years at least), and not to forget, you own the operating system, you are it's boss, you can control and change anything if you want, compared to Windows where the operating system controls you. In my region, Linux is more popular than Windows, even the gov is developing a version of Linux to ditch Windows.

I know i found this out the hardway  i still have a very old pc over here and even anti x runs slow on it .   There's not many XP  machines  that's going  run windows 10 without severe regression and you're going wish you kept XP  .  I read some of these articles on XP and they say try the Windows 10  upgrade to see if it will run that's crazy because 9 times of 10  it dont run right  its going mess up you're production machine.

[macnavarra]

I guess it´s because of the Vulkan API for Linux that MS is acting like that

[straycat19]

32 minutes ago, steven36 said:

I know i found this out the hardway  i still have a very old pc over here and even anti x runs slow on it .   There's not many XP  machines  that's going  run windows 10 without severe regression and you're going wish you kept XP  .  I read some of these articles on XP and they say try the Windows 10  upgrade to see if it will run that's crazy because 9 times of 10  it dont run right  its going mess up you're production machine.

 

Reminds me of a department that had an old system running Windows 95 (upgraded from Windows 3.1) but wanted to run the newer OS Windows 2000.  I told them it wouldn't run it and refused to install it, so they had one of their people do it.  Then I get a call that one of their computers is running slow, guess which one.  Slow was an understatement.  I timed the boot process and it was, no kidding, 26 minutes.  At that point in time I just accessed our bootp table and removed the machine, making it just a hunk of junk taking up space.  People have no understanding of the correlation between hardware and software and Microsoft is about as worthless has teats on a boor hog when it comes to actually helping users.

[Beamslider]

You would have to buy a retail key for $50-$60 to make it worth the trouble.    Those $10-$20 keys are all OEM and will mean that the Windows 10 activation will be tied to the one specific computer and not transferable if you change too much hardware.

 

Easy to just use a bios slip activated or even a Windows loader activated Windows 7.   Upgrade either to Windows 10 and you get a digital entitlement activation tied to the machine.

[cLcL]

3 hours ago, Beamslider said:

You would have to buy a retail key for $50-$60 to make it worth the trouble.    Those $10-$20 keys are all OEM and will mean that the Windows 10 activation will be tied to the one specific computer and not transferable if you change too much hardware.

 

Easy to just use a bios slip activated or even a Windows loader activated Windows 7.   Upgrade either to Windows 10 and you get a digital entitlement activation tied to the machine.

this is for people who want it the "legal" way tho (meaning: paid some $$$ to M$ ).

and besides, iirc, there's no such thing as "retail" license for w8/8.1/10. it all tied to the hardware (specifically, the motherboard), you can contact M$ if you ever need to change the motherboard to get new license or something tho.

[m!r@cle]

7 hours ago, cLcL said:

this is for people who want it the "legal" way tho (meaning: paid some $$$ to M$ ).

and besides, iirc, there's no such thing as "retail" license for w8/8.1/10. it all tied to the hardware (specifically, the motherboard), you can contact M$ if you ever need to change the motherboard to get new license or something tho.

 

10 hours ago, Beamslider said:

You would have to buy a retail key for $50-$60 to make it worth the trouble.    Those $10-$20 keys are all OEM and will mean that the Windows 10 activation will be tied to the one specific computer and not transferable if you change too much hardware.

 

Easy to just use a bios slip activated or even a Windows loader activated Windows 7.   Upgrade either to Windows 10 and you get a digital entitlement activation tied to the machine.

 

not completely, but i disagree in some cases...because i am having cheap retail keys...but i never mentioned here anyone because it's not permitted to sell anything on NsaneForums.