Windows 8.1 oem rules

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It may not display this or other websites correctly. You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. Does a windows 8. Thread starter P Start date Jan 15, Joined Jan 5, Messages 12, 2. As the title says. The windows 8. Joined Apr 19, Messages 12, 3. No, it won't work. That period has ended. If you want Windows 10 you need to buy a Window 10 key. RCoon said:.

You can install Windows 10 without a key entirely, and quite easily, but it won't be licensed and will harass you forever. No matter which way you look at it, your non-Windows 10 key will not activate Windows My samsung evo GB arrived today and installed it. Installed Windows 10 on it via usb stick and used my windows 8. Aaaand it says it's activated! So it still works. I mean to use the Dell service tag on the Dell support site to see which OS was legally allowed for that unit.

By right, during purchase, you or the person buying could have requested for the OS recovery media. The free Windows 10 upgrade ended in So the only legal option is to see if your machines fall under the Windows 10 "downgrade" category and if they are, then get Dell to sell or send you the Windows 10 recovery media.

This may not work for Windows 10 for some systems. As you are in a government agency, you really do not want to do away with workarounds that may get you into trouble. Contact Dell. You will probably find they have already been tagged for digital entitlement, so installing windows 10 from scratch will pick up the bois key and automatically license the product. Because the conditions for the free upgrade have passed. The upgrade tool is not licensing anything.

It's just activating it. If you don't have a valid Windows 10 license, which would either been obtained for free during the free upgrade period or purchased outside of that period, you cannot run Windows Even if there's no budget for it, it might be good to look into the cost that way you can pitch it to whoever decides on the the budget in your agency.

Then you just sell the idea of upgrading Windows 10 to them, pros, how it improves efficiency, etc. Thursday, November 7, PM. That web site will only accept retail product keys.

I would suggest you look into Volume Licensing. Carey Frisch. Where did you get the product key from? Thursday, December 5, PM. All the necessary information is listed in an article and responses named "Download a Windows 8. Google the article name. You can download the necessary 8. I used this method for a clean install of Windows 8.