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Message   Sean Rima    Kurt Weiske   Licensing   September 21, 2020
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   Hello Kurt!

16 Sep 20 12:26, you wrote to me:

 SR>> 13 Sep 20 20:43, you wrote to all:

 NA>> I have unused licenses for Windows 7, 8, 10, Server 2016 and
 NA>> Office 2016.

 SR>> Can you send a Win10 one please

 KW> I'd be curious if anyone has tried using a Windows 7 or 8 license to
 KW> activate Windows 10. It worked for a couple of months after Windows 7
 KW> went EOL, I haven't tried recently.

 KW> Spinning up a VM to test might be a good use of my new Proxmox host.
 KW> :)

 KW> (Edit: I spun up and activated a Windows 10 VM using a Windows 7 OEM
 KW> license key and it activated successfully...)

The only reason I want Windows is because part of my wether station software is
windows only. it is too much hard work to use a VM for just one app. So I will
move the Fidonet setup to a spare Raspberry Pi and put Windows onto the Dell
microbox .

Sean


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