On Sat, 29 Dec 2018 14:10:51 -0000 (UTC), Roger Blake
wrote:

On 2018-12-29, mechanic wrote:
Nonsense. According to a later post of yours, the computer in
question has a Win7 licence. Thus installing win10 and expecting it
to be activated is fruitless.

Not when it previously had been upgraded to Windows 10 via Microsoft's
free upgrade offer, numbnuts.

Perhaps you've already forgotten that period of time when Microsoft
was so aggressive about rolling out the new OS that people were even
inadvertantly being upgraded whether they wanted to or not. At the time
we were told that Windows 10 used a digital license locked to the hardware
and stored by Microsoft which would be honored in the event of a reload.

I remember the cunning effort to get Windows users on W10. I tried it
for free for a few days and decided W10 was not for me and so stayed
on W7.

I gave up all UNIX variations and derivatives a long time before
trying Windows. I wrote Machine code and so I took to NT, ASM, C and
C++. How time flies!

Steve

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