Windows 10 Pro Education ??

interesting i'm goin go do some checking and see if i qualify worth a shot at any rate never hurts to call.

NavyLCDR said:

The same is true of Windows 10 Pro Education.

https://onthehub.com/windows-11-education/

"Windows 11 Education for Students and Faculty
Get Windows 11 Education today at little to no cost through your school’s online store and it’s yours forever."

This passed a long time ago for me... So in 5 years when you will reactivate that key. You would still legally qualify ???

Seems unlikely... But from what I see, There is not much genuine activation's refused "globally". If your key has not been abused it will work.

Get Retail !

MaloK said:

This passed a long time ago for me... So in 5 years when you will reactivate that key. You would still legally qualify ???

Seems unlikely... But from what I see, There is not much genuine activation's refused "globally". If your key has not been abused it will work.

Windows 10 and 11 work on digital licenses. If I re-install Windows 10 Pro education 5 years from now on the same computer it was activated on before, I would just the generic product key. Just like my installation is now:



You only need the unique product key for the first activation, not for subsequent activations.

This is the product key I got from my school, and I assume the Pro Education product key would be the same type if purchased from the website:

NavyLCDR said:

Windows 10 and 11 work on digital licenses. If I re-install Windows 10 Pro education 5 years from now on the same computer it was activated on before, I would just the generic product key. Just like my installation is now:

Forever... on that computer... Change it !.. my retails don't care, I can install W7 or 10 on anything and it activates... Yes it have a digital activation in windows 10 after... But No MS accounts required and it will reactivate tomorrow on another mb without problems for at least 5 times in a row before I get to call for help.

So it's basically a mather of choice: pay more once for less trouble or, pay a little more often than once with a little more trouble... Anyway, Genuine requests are nearly never turned down...

MaloK said:

Forever... on that computer... Change it !.. my retails don't care, I can install W7 or 10 on anything and it activates... Yes it have a digital activation in windows 10 after... But No MS accounts required and it will reactivate tomorrow on another mb without problems for at least 5 times in a row before I get to call for help.

So it's basically a mather of choice: pay more once for less trouble or, pay a little more often than once with a little more trouble... Anyway, Genuine requests are nearly never turned down...

If you notice, my product key is retail. It is a retail product key for Windows 10 Education edition. Your concerns about the academic product key for Windows 10 Education are unfounded because you have not used one.

NavyLCDR said:

If you notice, my product key is retail. It is a retail product key for Windows 10 Education edition.

Loll... ok... I maybe should have stayed in school. But this brings up the whole "Windows should be free Question ???"

Barman58 said:

I think that these licences will not be subject to the need to contact the central server at regular intervals as is the case with Windows Enterprise, but would be a MAK licence ( limited to a single installation), as used by some enterprise users have where they cannot regularly connect to "home base"

That would be incorrect. First, MAK licenses are not limited to a single installation. They are limited to a specified number of activations assigned to the MAK license. Second, the academic license for Windows 10 Education, as shown in post number 23 is not a MAK license. It is a retail license - meaning it is available for transfer to different computers just like any other retail license is.

While I have not transferred the Windows 10 Education license to a new computer yet, I did have an academic license for Microsoft Office (I don't remember which version). The academic license for Microsoft Office was transferred multiple times (via the product key) to new computers with no issue.