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Microsft offers Windows 10 ISO with no key required.
« on: May 02, 2016, 05:59:12 PM »
As posted in another place, MS will let you have an ISO of Windows 10 that you can use with not product key. But read the details.
http://www.redmondpie.com/download-windows-10-pro-iso-file-without-product-key-from-microsoft/
The intent is to help those who got Windows 10 earlier without a product key for some reason. But it is not a free lunch.  :)

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Re: Microsft offers Windows 10 ISO with no key required.
« Reply #1 on: May 02, 2016, 07:54:09 PM »
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A genuine Windows product key will be required for activation purposes during or after installation.
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Re: Microsft offers Windows 10 ISO with no key required.
« Reply #2 on: May 02, 2016, 10:41:25 PM »
What about anybody who did the upgrade and the system crashed later?
Anybody who thinks he got the early Windows 10 in a legal way should go ahead and try the new installation. Microsoft will know if you are lying.
A careful read of the article shows you can skip the product key step and go ahead and install Windows 10 and it will run. Unless you are a pirate.  ;D

Microsoft has made some statements earlier about you can rover the product key from a crashed system. The  article from Redmond Pie makes it clear that even if you lost the key, you can still install Windows 10 on a machine that had Windows 10 and crashed. Microsoft knows.

One must read the whole thing. Including all the comments.
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Re: Microsft offers Windows 10 ISO with no key required.
« Reply #3 on: May 03, 2016, 04:00:40 AM »
This is great, something Microsoft should have done a long time ago IMO.  At last people can simply download an ISO of Windows to reinstall their machine rather than having to worry about making restore disks.  It also resolves the issue where for Windows 10 you previously needed to use their pointless "Media creation tool" - All this did was mean that you needed a Windows machine to make an installer for Windows (can you see the problem with this! :P).

As far as what happens if you have performed an upgrade from 7/8 - Your key should still work, I've clean installed Windows 10 on several PCs with Windows 7 licences and the 10 installer simply accepts the Windows 7 key.

If you don't enter a product key it will run for a short period of time.  In order to keep using it you will need to enter a product key.
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