On January 14, 2020, a month and a half later, Microsoft will stop its extended support for win7. At that time, many enterprise users will consider upgrading to windows 10 (hereinafter referred to as win10). It's not easy to deploy and upgrade win10 in large quantities, but the government still provides a way for users of the active version of win7 / 8.1 to upgrade to win10 free of charge.

Many Win7/8.1 genuine users may remember that Microsoft offered these users a benefit to promote Win10,

This method failed at the end of December 2017, but only in the official sense. In fact, Microsoft did not completely block it, even two years later.

However, this upgrade does not support a new installation,Active win7 / 8.1 users need to use the official media creation tool tool and specific key to upgrade win10 system。

The engineer also pointed out that Microsoft's free upgrade tool for win10 is actually an advertising tool, which aims to make more Microsoft customers upgrade to win10 system as soon as possible.