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Retail Win8 upgraded to Win10: Use the license on a new machine in the
I'm wondering how to use my migrated Win8 Retail license on my next machine. It will be a few years from now and well past the free upgrade offer.
I've used Showkey and I'm not sure if what it returns will be usable. If memory serves me (don't trust it myself) I think it's either the default Win10 Pro key or my Win8 Key (I'm on Win8 now, will post an image next time I'm on Win10).
The default Win10 certainly won't activate and the Win8 key will not upgrade after 29 July 2016.
The digital entitlement won't be valid - that's for the old machine.
It will most likely require phone activation and that's not a problem. I'll just have to remember that's how Win10 will activate given this scenario.
Remember: it's a Retail licence
I understand and comply with all of the legalese (one machine, remove from old...)
Any thoughts?