Bad news for those planning to activate Windows 11 with a Windows 7 or 8/8.1 key: users noticed that the latest Windows 11 preview builds no longer allow activation with old license keys.

You can no longer activate new Windows 11 builds with Windows 7 or 8 keys::Bad news for those planning to activate Windows 11 with a Windows 7 or 8/8.1 key: users noticed that the latest Windows 11 preview builds no longer allow activation with old license keys.

    • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      72·
      1 year ago

      Everything since 7 has been a skip. 10 only seemed good for a short while because of how poorly 8 was received.

      But that didn’t last long when MS kept updating it with more and more bloat, more and more telemetry, and more and more dark patterns.

      When Win10 came out, it was more performant than Win7. Now it bogs down and feels sluggish even on systems with gen4 NVME drives.

      There are some aspects of Win11 that I like, but they took the bad stuff with 10 and turned it up to 11 (hehe)

      • just another dev@lemmy.my-box.devEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Wasn’t there a directx version that wasn’t supported by win 7? Pretty sure that was done to push people to upgrade. I’m not a power gamer myself, but I can understand if you bought a video card that costs as much as the rest of your components, you’ll want to get the most out of it.

        • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          Yes, DirectX12 didn’t come to Windows 7

          Similarly, DirectStorage isn’t being added to Windows 10. But that’s not used by many games

    • ekky43@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      31·
      1 year ago

      TBH, Win10 was a skip version too. Don’t think I’ve ever had THAT many problems with a Windows system I willingly used. Even Vista was better.