Xbox One Wireless Controller - (typically $59.99) - Amazon: Offers from $32.99 / Target: $46.49 / Walmart: $46. There is however one drawback to all of this: the user who wants to exercise their downgrade rights and install an earlier version of Windows.

Xbox One X 1TB bundles (typically $499) - Amazon: $399.

Xbox One S 1TB All-Digital Edition - (typically $249.99) - Amazon: $173 / Walmart: $159 (includes 3 games).

Thankfully, Microsoft has a simple process you can follow if that happens. Tip: if you change multiple components in your PC as part of a device upgrade, Windows 10 may mistakenly think you’ve bought a new PC and refuse to register the licence automatically.

OR enter your (genuine) Windows 7 or Windows 8/8.1 product key if you haven’t previously activated your old version of Windows.

Regardless of this, product activation remains a part of Windows 10.

Once installed, open: Settings > Windows Update > Activation to activate your Windows 10 digital license. The most notable being that Windows 10 is free for existing Windows 7, 8/8.1 users for the first year.

Click ‘ Install’ (note this takes some time and involves multiple restarts).

Choose: ' Upgrade this PC now' then click ‘Next’.

When finished, open the download and accept the license terms.

Click ' Download Tool now' - this downloads the Windows 10 Media Creation Tool.

Click on the Windows 10 download page link here Although software makers use different methods to achieve this goal, one common approach involves asking the user to type in a product key or serial number.

With that caveat out the way, here’s how you get your Windows 10 free upgrade: Home licences update to Windows 10 Home, Pro licences update to Windows 10 Pro, so choose carefully. Tip: if you don’t have one, you can buy a legal copy of Windows 7 or Windows 8 at third part retailers for a fraction of the cost of a Windows 10 licence. There’s just one snag: you will need a legal copy of Windows 7 or Windows 8 to do this. Despite Microsoft ending its free Windows 10 upgrade offer to all users on July 30, 2016, the company has (in my opinion, knowingly) left open a loophole. Free Windows 10 upgrades are still available Gordon Kelly While the Windows 10 free upgrade offer expired in 2018, a lot of users are still asking how activation works, and whether they need a new product key to use Windows 10.

Windows 10 upgrade asks for product key