Microsoft has confirmed that users can no longer use old Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 keys to activate Windows 11. And that applies not only to Canary builds, as it was last month—from now on ...

Product keys are one of the ways software developers ... It also offers a security benchmark score, though sadly this is only available for Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP Pro.

Microsoft never pushes free upgrades, except you’re updating from Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 to Windows ... you’ll get a separate activation key for each product. When you install or run the ...