Windows 10 Professional 64-bit English 1 Pack - FQC-08929

Fantastic price for OEM version.Delivered next day - great.First installation on an SSD said it hard worked, but when I rebooted, there was no OS on the SSD - very odd.Second installation worked OK and is still working.Remember to attach your wifi dongle before installing as Win10 will recognise it during installation and allow you to register the product at the same time.For me Win 10 seems to be a good step forward - takes the Win 8 interface and makes it optional and gives you a start menu which is more like Win 7 - so you can pick the UI you prefer. Does take some getting used to as features are renamed and accessible in different ways - but google solves questions rapidly.Have found a few quirks which Microsoft need to resolve, eg the video playback app does not give you any sound, so you have to find Windows Media player - which is better but hidden !!!!And one very annoying feature - Storage Groups only seems to work on empty HDDs - so a RAID installation I had on the old Win 7 PC has not been fully migrated across - I just have 2 identical but separate HDDs . . . . . . . . luckily, no data lost as I broke the raid before upgrading. I have not yet had the time to reformat them, create a new RAID and then copy the data back from back up

Ok, it's a bit weird. You wait a few days and get a random letter from Germany.In it, is your Windows 10 Sticker with CD Key on it. You get the ISO fresh from Microsoft's website (make sure to get build 1607 or higher) as this self contains the anniversary update. Install it then Activate with the key given and it activates perfectly fine. A lot cheaper than buying either a Retail copy or your own OEM copy.My guess is these companies selling it are either PC builders or suppliers who are ordering say Fresh PC's which come with Windows, reformatting them then passing on the licenses to us. It happens all the time, even at my work we get Dell deliver and they all have Windows 10 CD Keys stuck on them (then the admin guys quickly rip them off) and install the corporate Windows 7 install. As such, I'm guessing they are doing exactly the same. Is it legal? Who knows. I'm sure Microsoft won't approve of it but at the end of the day its a valid license that activates and that's good enough considering the saving.Put it this way, for the £25-30 they sell for here, its a fraction of the cost of a retail Home Edition, and this gives you Pro with Remote Desktop and Domain joining support. Considering Windows 10 is the last major release and now it's just updates on updates, you got yourself a lifetime license :)

Seemed extremely fishy when I first bought this since it says the seller is Microsoft even though it obviously isn't. About an hour after I placed my order, I got an email with a PDF which included the key. The PDF and email was mostly in German which was annoying, but the key stood out so it wasn't a big deal.I entered my code into windows activator and it said that it was already in use. I thought I just got scammed so I checked the email and there were some extra instructions hidden in a website link. It says I needed to use a fresh install... So I entered the code in at the very start of installing windows again and it still didn't work.I emailed the seller saying exactly what happened, and they gave me a command to type into the run program about 5 minutes after. They then asked me to give them a code that was on this program, and after I gave them the code, they gave me a new activation code to type into the program that worked perfectly.I only gave this 4 stars because it was such a hassle, and I was a little annoyed I got a key that didn't work.NOTE: You cannot upgrade to newer versions when using this, not too much of a big deal though since all Microsoft do is add new 'features' that track you.

I wanted to encrypt the SSD in my new Lenovo laptop (710S Plus - lovely machine by the way). I knew the upgrade from Home to Pro was around £100 so I thought I'd see if I could save a few quid by searching on Amazon rather than just purchasing on the Windows Store. I thought I might be able to save a tenner or so. I was astonished to find this option and was somewhat dubious (if it sounds too good to be true...!) but thought it was worth a shot. If it didn't work then hey it was £20 and I could always get in touch with Amazon over it.So at around 1am this morning I placed the order and then went to bed. I woke up and went to work and found that the activation code had been sent to me less than two hours after I placed the order - even in the middle of the night. I was at work and my laptop was at home so I had to wait until I got home to activate. I popped in the activation code, said code was accepted, Windows 10 Pro activated, extra features downloaded and installed and now I'm sat here with my SSD encrypted and feeling happy I didn't pay the MS list price. It's possible I may play with Hyper-V a bit but BitLocker is the main reason I wanted Pro and it's quite likely it's the only feature of Pro I'll ever really use on this machine as it's for home use - maybe Remote Desktop too, but difficult to justify £100 or more just for BitLocker at any rate.Delighted this worked although the seller specified a requirement to activate the product code within three days which makes me think that if I ever needed to reactivate I might run into problems? But for twenty quid... am I really that bothered? I'll take an image of my system partition and hope I never need to use it.Right now, very happy indeed.