A day later, on the 17th, the page (finally) says that the free offer has closed (although they seem to have forgotten about their last-minute extension to 16th Jan. :)). MS have now removed the update assistant download button.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/acce...ndows10upgradeMicrosoft said:
Good thing I got my last Win7 Upgraded on Thursday the 11th. I did create HP's Factory Restore discs first in case I need to go back.
The question remains whether or not the 'unofficial' free licence awarded to a normal upgrade will now be turned off.
It was always a puzzle as to why it continued to work long after the 'official' end of the upgrade offer back in 2016. I suspect that it was too difficult to turn off for ordinary upgrades while it was still needed for the Assistive technology offer. Now that has ended perhaps it can finally be turned off safely?
We'll have to wait and see. I have an un-upgraded machine. I'll use it to test that in a few weeks time.
What I considered important was to get the Digital Licensing for the computer while I could save money. The machine is actually a rehab and available for someone needing an inexpensive one [low income types], last one I sold for $100 complete system.
I have successfully upgraded my Windows 7 legit activated full version to Windows 10. It MADE ME create a Microsoft Account during the upgrade. I got updates all installed to current and it said my Windows 10 was a digital license tied to my MS account. I then made a usb key win10 install. I did a clean install, logged in during setup with the new MS account I created during the upgrade. It still says activated.
I am installing all windows updates currently on it. I will keep an eye on it past the next CU in April and let you all know. So far it looks like if you have a legit win7 and do the upgrade and make a MS account it will still work. We shall see.
EDIT: this is an old old old pc I built 9 years ago, still not bad though.... 3ghz quad core (Q9650), 4gb ram etc. Not my main system.
EDIT2: I saved the 40gb SSD I had that win7 on for hell if i know. Now I know why lol. Put together the rest of parts and pulled the 80gb hdd from another broken pc hahahha. Macrium saved me by backing up that over the network to even get this working to begin with.
I got it fully updated. Says activated with MS account still. Defragged, backed up with Macrium. Waiting on next CU Update now.
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Thanks for telling us @Access Denied, it's interesting to know that an upgrade still gets activated.
If you didn't make the usb key until after the upgrade, how did you do the upgrade? Did you use the MCT? If so, did you use Step 4 (upgrade this PC now) or Step 5 or 6 (make media and use that to upgrade) from this tutorial?
Upgrade to Windows 10
At which step did you get told to make a MS account? I've never been forced to make an MS account during an upgrade, but then I've not used the 'upgrade now' option, preferring to make the media first.
Or perhaps at Step 15 you chose the 'keep nothing' option? An upgrade keeping the existing files and apps has always kept the existing local account too. 'Keep nothing' is effectively a clean install, so would need to set up a new account. Even then, the option to use a local account should have been available (albeit in small print), see Step 23 in this tutorial.
Clean Install Windows 10
I'm waiting for the Spring Creators Update (1803) to test an upgrade on my last remaining 'never been upgraded' Windows 7 PC. I want to see if MS will take the opportunity to finally turn off upgrade activations then.
I first downloaded the MCT and picked 'upgrade this PC when now' prompted at step 4. I was running it directly from the desktop. I didn't 'create the usb key' until after I got into win10 after the upgrade.
Correct, I did click 'keep nothing' when asked. I was expecting to make a local account but it would not let me when it got to that step. There was no 'Offline account' option. It has to be tied to 'keep nothing' option.
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