Window 10 Pro Free Install
Updated 29-Oct-2018: Thank you to the many readers who have continued to provide firsthand reports that this procedure still works. The majority of reader reports confirm that this upgrade is still available.
Window 10 Pro Free Install Software
A minority of readers report that the upgrade fails on a Windows 10 PC with an error message that indicates 'Windows 10 Setup has failed to validate the product key.' This is a known issue that happened even back when the free upgrade offer was still in place. It happens to a subset of Windows 7 PCs, and no one is quite sure why. Everyone who reported this has been able to fix it using one of the procedures detailed in this article by Microsoft MVP Kapil Arya:.
Everyone knows the free upgrade offer for Windows 10 ended on July 29, 2016, right? That's when and, to the relief of many, stopped forcing the GWX tool onto the PCs of unsuspecting users who were perfectly happy with their current version of Windows and had no desire to upgrade. • As of July 30, 2016, the upgrade notifications stopped and the GWX app began disappearing. In theory, that means the only way to get a Windows 10 upgrade is to pay for it. The funny thing is, no one told the folks who run Microsoft's activation servers. Which means today, two full years after the free upgrade offer supposedly ended, you can still upgrade to Windows 10 from Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 and claim a free digital entitlement, without being forced to jump through any hoops. You can also still upgrade Windows 10 Home to Windows 10 Pro by using a product key from a previous business edition of Windows 7, 8, or 8.1 (Pro/Ultimate).