Note that each edition of Windows uses its own unique product key. For example, if you have a license for the Windows 11/10 Home edition, you cannot use it to activate Windows Pro or other editions.

You may for some reason need to change your Windows 11/10 product license key – maybe you want to upgrade your copy of Windows to a higher version, or maybe you ...

Microsoft has confirmed that users can no longer use old Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 keys to activate Windows 11. And that applies not only to Canary builds, as it was last month—from now on, only ...

How to install Windows 11 24H2, now available for everyone. Learn four methods to install this update on your PC.

Windows licenses cost a lot—almost to the point of pain. Paying $139 for Windows 11 Home or $200 for Windows 11 Pro feels exorbitant when Linux is free, especially when that much money is easily ...

In the new Beta channel preview build 22635 for Windows 11, Microsoft has made it possible to remap the Copilot key to launch an app rather than invoke the AI assistant. As Microsoft explains in a ...

This deal gets you a lifetime license to Microsoft Office 2019 for Windows or Mac and access to Microsoft Word, Excel, ...

Windows 11 users are about to get more control over the Copilot key found on new laptops and keyboards that Microsoft announced in January as part of its initiative to integrate Copilot into ...

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Price and features The two versions of Windows 11 have slightly different prices and feature sets. While the Home version offers most of what the Pro version does, there are a few key features ...

You can create Hyper-V VMs in Windows 11 using a built-in Windows app or a new developer-oriented tool. Both come with gotchas. Here’s how it all works. Though it may seem that virtual machines ...