Microsoft says it has closed an installation path that allowed Windows 7 and 8.X owners to upgrade to Windows 10 and 11 for free.

“Microsoft’s free upgrade offer for Windows 10 / 11 ended July 29, 2016,” the company says. “The installation path to obtain the Windows 7 / 8 free upgrade is now removed as well.” However, Windows 10 users can still upgrade to Windows 11 for now.

One of the things that Microsoft did differently with the introduction of Windows 10 in 2015 was to make the new OS a free upgrade for existing users of older OSes. Specifically, it used this free carrot to tempt OS sticklers wedded to the popular Windows 7 release.

Source: Qatar News Agency