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Microsoft is trying to convince Windows 10 users to upgrade with full-screen prompts (www.theverge.com)
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[–] Redx@lemmy.world 21 points 6 months ago (4 children)

I took the free upgrade. Then after a bit I updated my bios and it killed my license. Microsoft wouldn't fix it and said I changed my hardware so there was nothing they could do. Still pissed off about that.

[–] casmael@lemm.ee 7 points 6 months ago

Wow that’s fucking annoying Jesus

[–] Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 6 months ago

That’s crazy. Not a Microsoft fanboy, but I’ve had issues like that after an actual board swap and they still have made it right (and technically they were in the right to disallow it), and they’ve fixed issues with transferring around my retail license that I’ve had since like Windows 7 because by now it’s been activated a bunch of times. Enshittification.

[–] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 5 points 6 months ago

There's a mass grave way to get a new digital license from Microsoft 😉

Btw when I changed my motherboard and Windows deactivated, I called them and told them "it broke, then I replaced only the motherboard" (actually was an hardware upgrade) and they give the the phone activation codes. But that was during the Win7 era