Windows 11 Pro Upgrade From Home Cost
Tacio Allaire
Two options I see are to manually upgrade each device one at a time through the control panel GUI to the purchase $99 Easy Upgrades (Anytime Upgrades). This is a clunky process that requires a separate purchase transaction for every device.
Also keep in mind that while a single VL gives you imaging rights, the machine you are imaging to has to have the proper licensing already in place - a Pro OS license of the same version as the VL or a previous version downgrade rights entitle you to.
So, we will just have to decide whether we want to pay $199 per device so we can just buy full retail Pro keys through our normal purchasing channels or VLSC or pay $99 per device, but have to spend 20 minutes per device doing single transactions on a credit card through the control panel upgrade process and then keep a record of all these upgrade transactions for any future license auditing.
Going from Windows 10 Home to Pro cannot be done via Volume Licensing. You are required to have a qualifying version of Windows installed on your device to purchase Volume Licensing Upgrades of Windows 10 Pro. The qualifying OS is basically a Pro version of Windows. Since your devices do not have the Pro version of Windows installed, you are left with Retail license options (as you know).
The point is with one microsoft account you will be able only to upgrade 10 devices from Windows 10 home to Pro from the store .They will ask you wether to create another microsoft account or to delete one of machines already upgraded .
So there are some scenarios where a Pro license may be owned for the machine but the goal is to install the Pro volume license version (on top of that.) For that purpose, this allows the skipping of an installation step.
So if I have 10 PCs with Windows 10 Home OEM, to move to Windows 10 Pro with an imaging solution, I need to purchase 10 retail copies of Windows 10 Pro, and only 1 volume license of Windows 10 Pro Upgrade, or do I need 10 copies of Windows 10 Pro Upgrade volume license?
Thanks, so as long as we purchase 10 Pro through some legitimate means (retail, MS store, etc), and one 10 Pro VL license, then we could image all of those PCs with 10 Pro using the MAK volume key? So if we were audited, we would be covered showing receipts from the MS store plus VL agreement info?
You are only purchasing Pro once for each machine. The VL agreement is what gives you imaging rights. You can use that one license to upgrade a qualifying OS - WinXP/7/8 Pro if you have any of those still around.
Yes you can do an in-place upgrade from home and keep the files, however it will remove all of the installed applications. If you have office and other applications installed, you will need to reinstall.
I am looking at purchasing a new Surface Pro 7+ with the 12.3" touchscreen. It comes with Windows 11 Home. I am reasonably sure I will prefer to have Pro instead. What is the cost for the activation key to make that happen?? I cannot find a place on the store to answer this question.
Thank you. I am purchasing the Surface soon. My problem was I had no way to get to those screens. The $99 price tag is about what I expected. Any idea how long it takes to activate and/or configure? Presumably it's already installed and just a "switch" that gets turned on or is there a massive download & install?
Seems like Keyingo only sells the full version of Windows 11 Pro, not the upgrade from Home to Pro. If a computer already has Windows 11 Home pre-loaded, would the full version of Windows 11 Pro still work for me?@adgmiea
In over 3 decades of installing Windows both in a professional corporate setting and at home, I have never taken less than four hours to do a clean install of any incarnation of Microsoft Windows. It generally takes that long just install all the latest updates.
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