The best part about Upgrade assistant is, it provides options to either create a bootable USB or save as a ISO file for a clean install.Īt the launch event in New York yesterday, Microsoft revealed that there are more than 670 million Windows 7 users with ‘genuine licenses’. It never asked for the old Windows 7 product key, but just the new Windows 8 license key which was sent via email immediately after the purchase. Everything went smoothly and I could download, install and activate Windows 8 without issues.
I gave a publicly available license key during installation, downloaded the Windows 8 upgrade assistant and followed the procedure to purchase a genuine license key for Windows 8 Pro for INR 1,999. Instead, I created a bootcamp partition on my Macbook Air and installed Windows 7 Ultimate on it. I personally wanted to validate this, but didn’t have access to a pirated copy of Windows 7. This is supposedly true for all three versions – Windows 7, Vista and XP. Ideally, we’d expect the upgrade assistant to catch the pirated copies, but it seems that the tool doesn’t bother to check the genuineness of the Windows copy or if it is validated nor activated. Users in several underground forums are reporting that they were able to upgrade and activate Windows 8 Pro after legally purchasing it for $39.99 (or local equivalent cost) through the Windows 8 upgrade assistant. Yes, it does make business sense to rope in as many genuine buyers as possible, but it’s still surprising that Microsoft is willing to sell them the latest OS version at a nominal price of $39.99, a huge discount of $130 over the final retail price. Windows 8 Promo Code Gaffe Lets Anyone to Upgrade for $14.99
What’s more special is the fact that they are letting the pirates upgrade to Windows 8 Pro at the offer price of $39.99! Microsoft is letting customers (or rather users) with non-legit Windows installations to legally upgrade to the newly released Windows 8 operating system.
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