this post was submitted on 30 Sep 2023
127 points (96.4% liked)

Technology

59582 readers
2542 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
L3s@fry.gs
L4s@fry.gs
L4s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
127
You can no longer activate new Windows 11 builds with Windows 7 or 8 keys (www.neowin.net)
submitted 1 year ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
34 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

You can no longer activate new Windows 11 builds with Windows 7 or 8 keys::Bad news for those planning to activate Windows 11 with a Windows 7 or 8/8.1 key: users noticed that the latest Windows 11 preview builds no longer allow activation with old license keys.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Skip every other windows version. 11 is a skip version

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Everything since 7 has been a skip. 10 only seemed good for a short while because of how poorly 8 was received.

But that didn't last long when MS kept updating it with more and more bloat, more and more telemetry, and more and more dark patterns.

When Win10 came out, it was more performant than Win7. Now it bogs down and feels sluggish even on systems with gen4 NVME drives.

There are some aspects of Win11 that I like, but they took the bad stuff with 10 and turned it up to 11 (hehe)

[–] admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wasn't there a directx version that wasn't supported by win 7? Pretty sure that was done to push people to upgrade. I'm not a power gamer myself, but I can understand if you bought a video card that costs as much as the rest of your components, you'll want to get the most out of it.

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Yes, DirectX12 didn't come to Windows 7

Similarly, DirectStorage isn't being added to Windows 10. But that's not used by many games

[–] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Everything since 7 has been a skip.

You younguns haven't met a decent OS! XP was the last decent Windows... Nah, 2000 was... Ah fuck it!

Every OS wastes your time

From the desktop to the lap

Everything since the abacus

Just a bunch of crap

Personally I'm halfway offended that my job forces win 11 on us, at least 10 didn't remove the old settings dialogs.

[–] ekky43@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

TBH, Win10 was a skip version too. Don't think I've ever had THAT many problems with a Windows system I willingly used. Even Vista was better.