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What happens with my retail licenses after July 29, 2016 ?
I have both Windows 7 and 8.x retail licenses.
They have now been used up by upgrading to Windows 10 (both as hosts and as vm's).
A few questions:
1) Where can I find Microsoft information as to what will happen with these licenses after July 29, 2016, i.e. after the free upgrade period?
2) Say, I have created an .iso (using Media Creation Tool) just before this date and use that for all future (clean) re-installs* after the expiry date, will that work?
(* as long as there are no hardware changes)
3) In case of a hardware failure (or replacing a HDD with a SSD) after the free upgrade period and a clean install obviously is necessary, then presumably one has to buy a new (retail) license?
(or return to Windows 7 or 8 as likely those product keys are still valid for those Windows versions?)
Thanks
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