Getting Stuff Ready. Windows 7, from everything we’ve heard is surprisingly stable beta, and it’s easy to upgrade from Vista, since it happens automagically.

The Microsoft promotional offer that gave Windows 7 users a free upgrade path to Windows 10 officially expired on July 29, 2016. With a Windows 10 Home license now starting from $139 in the U.S. ...

Windows 7 is right around the corner -- it is officially available on October 22. In anticipation of that, we've rounded up a clown's bounty of ways for you to get your own copy of Windows 7 at ...

It's unclear as to why this works, but if you have a product code for an old version of Windows 7, 8 or 8.1 you should be able to enter this into a copy of Windows 10 and get an activation.

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Microsoft consistently said that you would need an existing Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 license to get activated on Windows 10, but now that seems to have changed.