Posted on 08/03/2015 2:28:11 PM PDT by dayglored
Microsoft advises you to sweat it out
MICROSOFT is warning customers that their free upgrade to Windows 10 may complete but not be activated for several days.
A statement on the company website advises customers to "wait a few days and try again or just leave it and let it activate on its own. The activation servers might be overwhelmed."
The advice is hollow succour for those who, perhaps less tech-savvy, want the reassurance of knowing that they definitely have a working Windows. Microsoft revealed just a day after the launch of Windows 10 that the OS has already been installed on 14 million machines.
Windows 10 started its staged rollout at 5am BST on 29 July as Microsoft undertook one of the biggest software distributions in history, described by the company as like "buying pizza for 1.5 billion people".
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Statement from the Microsoft site itself:
How to Activate and resolve common Product key issues in Windows 10
"...Activation servers are being overwhelmed at the moment because of the volume of upgrades, so give it some time if you get an error message such as (0XC004E003, ,0x8007000D, 0x8007232b or 0x8007007B) Windows 10 will eventually activate as long as you upgrade using the appropriate method..."
(Excerpt) Read more at theinquirer.net ...
Being a new install probably helps.
We updated from W8.1 on a ...ummm 1 and a half year old HP Pavilion g7 laptop with an AMD A8 Cpu and ...16G mem IIRC.
Went very smooth. Took maybe and hour and a half.
Not a clean install. All apps and previous programs were still there.
But they’re VERY patient...
I see no reason to switch anyway.
I replaced my Windows 7 Home Premium with an MSDN Ultimate version and waited about two days before the update notification appeared in the taskbar. Downloaded and installed on Friday night, during the unmetered period of my Exceed satellite internet. It activated right away.
Not impressed and it looks to be a bandwidth hog. Now I’m back to Windows 7, thanks to Clonezilla!
If they think that is bad, just wait until the “Update Storm” that follows close behind.
LOL, yeah, not a pretty picture.
OK, this is the proverbial stupid question. I am currently running windows 8.1. How do I actually go about upgrading to Windows 10?
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