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29.09.2023 00:27, Mykola Khizhnyak
Microsoft has closed the last loophole that allowed owners of older PCs to upgrade to Windows 10 and Windows 11 operating systems for free. Now, owners of licensed copies of Windows 7 or Windows 8 will have to buy a new license if they want to take advantage of the latest features of Microsoft’s latest OS.
“The free upgrade offer to Windows 10/11 ended on July 29, 2016. Methods to get a free Windows 7/8 upgrade to Windows 10 or 11 have now also been removed. Upgrading from Windows 10 to Windows 11 is still free.”— reported the company on its official blog.
At one time, Microsoft offered owners of licensed copies of Windows 7 and Windows 8 a free upgrade to Windows 10. This offer was valid until July 31, 2016, that is, exactly a year from the release of Windows 10.
For owners of older versions of Windows who use operating system features designed for people with disabilities, for example, Narrator, Microsoft has extended the ability to upgrade to Windows 10 until the end of 2017.
Formally, after this, this proposal should have ceased to apply. True, Microsoft never officially announced this at the time. In fact, the ability to upgrade from Windows 7 and Windows 8 to Windows 10 remained until recently. Last week, the company finally announced that it had closed the loophole.
