Thanks for the info, I've been tearing my hair out trying to figure this out

Alexza said:

Thanks for the info, I've been tearing my hair out trying to figure this out

You're not alone. The problem is worldwide.

They must have upgraded their activation servers to 1809 and deleted everyone's digital license files stored on them.

Mine too, this morning.
Mine was a Home machine but upgraded via store. It has been activated digitally in the past so Microsoft really have screwed up here.

From the above quote Microsoft Community Forums Microsoft has since acknowledged an ongoing issue with its activation servers, which is causing systems to falsely report this information, commenting that the problem should be fixed within a couple of days:

*bold and italics mine*
gee thanks Microsoft !! and here's me barely over the excitement of having Skype as a badge on my taskbar.

It's worth noting mine is on the 1803, not an insider build, so it is effecting all versions of windows 10 Pro that have been upgraded in any way.

slicendice said:

Software development A-Z

Step x: Test your software in a controlled environment that replicates your real environment as closely as possible, before final release.


This was one of the first steps I was taught during my software and database development courses. If MS would have done this, we would not have these kind of issues.

It's a hardware issue!