That just could not happen if they were truly dishonest in any way. If you take a quick look when you purchase, several of the license sellers have 5,000 or more reviews with more than 4 overall stars. In addition, the only instences I have found were a kinguin license not working is in a case were the seller had maybe 100 or less ratings and many were bad. One of the three was purchased two years ago and is still great. I have picked up 3 licenses on kinguin and all 3 of those pcs are running flawlessly. The licenses that Kinguin sells are OEM copies that they burn off and are not always legit.Īlways purchase from authentic resellers.Īnytime you purchase a license for less than market price it will be sketchy/grey. Microsoft officially stopped offering a free upgrade to Windows 10 in 2016, but the company never took any steps to stop the upgrades from working.Grey licenses. This is an artifact of the years-old Windows 10 upgrade offer. Other retail sites will presumably keep selling physical and digital copies of Windows 10 for at least a little while, but even if all Windows 10 sales went away at the end of the month, people who really wanted it should still be able to get it.įor owners of older Windows 7 and Windows 8 PCs who want to upgrade-and you should, since both operating systems received their final regularly scheduled security updates earlier this month-Windows 10 should continue to install and run just fine on those computers at no additional cost.
Although Windows 10 will continue to be supported with new security updates until at least October 2025, Microsoft is pushing anyone buying or building a new PC to use the newer Windows 11 instead. Microsoft will stop selling downloadable licenses for Windows 10 on its website on January 31, according to a message on the product pages for Windows 10 Home and Pro. Further Reading Microsoft will continue supporting Windows 10 with yearly feature updates
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