Unlike so many other unresolved issues with Windows 10 in the past month, this one shouldn't cause you undue stress.
Mine is a new laptop this year, upgraded within a week from Home to Pro. UPDATE: One of my Twitter followers says he was affected by this bug on a new laptop that was upgraded from Windows 10 Home to Windows 10 Pro.īecause your article just stopped me from panicking, I'll let you know that it doesn't only affect those upgrading from Win 7 or 8. There are dozens more of these comments rolling in across social media and forums, but the common thread seems to be that these users had prior Windows 7 or Windows 8 Professional keys before upgrading to Windows 10. The deactivation and downgrade issue seems to be occurring in several countries including the US, UK, Japan and Korea. Need to deploy to clients but they wont activate. "Same issue on Dell computers running Windows that we just bought. A reboot got rid of the water mark on the desktop but system info still says windows is not activated."
My second PC with windows 10 home is unaffected. 100% legit pro key that was upgraded when windows 10 released. Windows is deactivated because I went from Windows 10 Pro to home and it doesn’t match anymore." It’s even gone as far as my digital entitlement is gone from my Microsoft account and I have a Windows 10 home key now. Microsoft officially stopped offering a free upgrade to Windows 10 in 2016, but the company never took any steps to stop the upgrades from working."I am having the same problem. This is an artifact of the years-old Windows 10 upgrade offer.
Other retail sites will presumably keep selling physical and digital copies of Windows 10 for at least a little while, but even if all Windows 10 sales went away at the end of the month, people who really wanted it should still be able to get it.įor owners of older Windows 7 and Windows 8 PCs who want to upgrade-and you should, since both operating systems received their final regularly scheduled security updates earlier this month-Windows 10 should continue to install and run just fine on those computers at no additional cost. Although Windows 10 will continue to be supported with new security updates until at least October 2025, Microsoft is pushing anyone buying or building a new PC to use the newer Windows 11 instead. Microsoft will stop selling downloadable licenses for Windows 10 on its website on January 31, according to a message on the product pages for Windows 10 Home and Pro. Further Reading Microsoft will continue supporting Windows 10 with yearly feature updates
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