On 2/2/2019 12:56 PM, Paul wrote:
philo wrote:
On 2/2/19 10:58 AM, Andy Burns wrote:
philo wrote:

The only thing that surprised me is when I checked activation, I saw
there was nothing I had to do...it already was activated.

It seems pretty common for Microsoft's Win10 activation systems to
"let you get away with it" especially if the win7 was activated on an
OEM licence.



At any rate I was very pleased.

It was on my wife's main machine and when I was done, her desktop was
left exactly the way it was on Win7. Other than the tile option, I
doubt she would have known the difference.

There was a time when the "free upgrade" was aggressively
pushed, such that if Windows Update was running on Windows 7 SP1,
you could have a copy of Windows 10 "pushed" at you.

That program stopped on the appropriate date.

However, the activation that goes with it, did not. If
you do an Upgrade Install of current Windows 10 over an
activated copy of Windows 7 Sp1 or Windows 8.1, then
your copy would be instantly activated without typing
in any numbers. And that still seems to be working in 2019.
(I would expect it to stop when Windows 7 SP1 hits end of
life.)

If you install Windows 10 on a brand-new computer you built
at home, that never had an OS on it, then you'll get 30 days
grace before the OS will indicate a problem with activation.
Whereas some older OSes had a practice of rebooting (without
cleaning up) in the middle of a session on an expired
installation, Windows 10 seems to keep running. I have a copy
of Windows 10 in a VM (where it would not have seen a qualifying
OS), and it just shows the watermark in the corner every once
in a while. I haven't noticed it do a spontaneous reboot,
like in the old days. I have a copy of expired Windows 7 that
*does* reboot (it's an Enterprise SKU in a VM you can download
from Microsoft, that I run in VPC2007).

** Paul

Thanks Paul.

From what I can tell, even inactivated version of Win 10 will still
work...possibly not all features???