If you’ve been holding out on upgrading to Windows 11 from Windows 7 or 8, you’ve just lost your free window as Microsoft has finally pulled the plug on the years-long deal that let Windows 7 and 8 users upgrade to the latest version of its operating system for free.
The deal, which has been in effect for several years now, originally let users upgrade to Windows 10 and then upgrade to Windows 11 afterward, all for absolutely free. Last month, though, Microsoft announced that it would end the pipeline that let users move freely from Windows 7 to Windows 11.
