Scott covered a lot of what to expect from Threshold 2, the November update for Windows 10 but today we received another tidbit of information about the new release. When you first upgraded to Windows 10 you probably noticed that your Win7/8 license was not honoured if you tried to do a fresh install after the upgrade. As well, if you used software to determine the new license code, it was also not recognized for a fresh install and your only option to reinstall was to use the process found within Windows 10. That will change with the arrival of the new update according to what The Inquirer was told, as long as you have record of your old Win7 or Win8 key you will be able to do a fresh new installation of Windows 10, presumably on the same hardware. They also provided an estimate of how long the installation of this update will take, about one hour depending on the speed of your internet.
"That means if you start with a clean slate, your Windows 7 or 8 licence key just wouldn't work. The good news is that this problem has been fixed with the arrival of Threshold 2, and you can now use an old licence key to do a fresh installation."
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Yes but it digests that
Yes but it digests that windows 7/8/8.1 license in 30 days and poops it back out as a 10 only license and users can not revert back! Windows 7 until 2020 with Vulkan then over to Steam OS with Vulkan in advance of that 2020 EOL for 7! Bye M$ smell you later!
Do you have documentation to
Do you have documentation to back up what you are saying about the Win 7 or 8 key would be unable to activate your PC if its clean reinstalled after those 30 days of Win10 ?
Also – I think you will only be able to use your Win 7/8 keys until end of july 2016 to activate Win 10. But I have found no statement on that.