Question Windows 7 To Windows 10, then Windows 11 - - All At Once? Step by Step? ?

[Another.Technical.Human]

So hi ... few lines of question please if you can revert back please per each line:

1. I do not think you can go straight from 7 to 11 (unless you are going to buy a slurply 😉 ) ... am i correct or wrong?
2. If cannot go from 7 to 11 then I need install 10 first ... question is after 10 and I then right away upgrade to 11?
3. To many fake not sure and maybe not valid builds of windows and office for sale on net ... thus where to go Microsoft direct ? is this best?
4. If Microsoft is the best many options ... I just want like pro for all stuff seems due-able ... that said what should be the cost I am looking at? Any links be great help please
5. Now office ... I want install office (cant stand 365) miss 2007! and 2011! ... anyway company's are pushing us onto 10 and 11 even Comcast stop emails from working now, not so much by i think protocol but their certs are making things interesting ... anyway office 2021 I do not think can sit on windows 7 so I need go to 10 and then 11 ... where best place to get office please and links be of great help and what should i think about paying for just due-able pro version or something of such.

I thank you so much for read and any responses and if you can just respond by line item #1, #2 etc. that be so great.

Thank you in advance!

 

[Colif]

1. probably need to go to 10 to get a licence that you can upgrade to 11
2. If PC can use 11, you can upgrade to it right after getting 10
3. download the Windows 10 media creation tool and use it to make a win 10 installer on USB
4. Installer is free

 

[Another.Technical.Human]

Thank you ...

Missing some feedback on the other office line items but thank you nevertheless and question:

* I read somewhere ... if I have activated valid windows 7 license then it will work on 10 true or false?

 

[Colif]

win 7 licences should work in 10, I don't know about 11.

I almost answered Office question and then realised I had linked to 365 which you didn't want.

 

[Another.Technical.Human]

Thank you.

 

[Colif]

You can buy Office 2021 from Microsoft. I don't know what country you from but this is the local one here - https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/microsoft-365/get-started-with-office-2021

 

[Heinrich Soltow]

Well. Here's a note for anyone using an old Seagate NAS, mine's a SEAGATE-43D0E6 and the ONLY way I've been able to get Windows 10 or 11 to actually see it, access it or do anything the way they first came out, is to start with Windows 07 first and then upgrade to the newer operating systems.

None of the other online suggestions have ever worked when just installing the later OS's on a fresh drive. Only by running the Seagate Central for the older drives on Windows 07 first, having the program automap the NAS and running the OS install right after the NAS was recognized have I always managed to get the old stuff working.

It kinda sorta works with some old programs, printers, cameras and phones too.

 

[TerryLaze]

* I read somewhere ... if I have activated valid windows 7 license then it will work on 10 true or false?

If you can activate an online license then it should just recognise you hardware during install of win 10 but also win 11 and not even ask you for a key.
#NotAnMicrosoftHelpDesker

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[USAFRet]

If your system is Win 11 capable, a fresh install of 11 WILL activate using your Win 7 license key.
You do not need to go to Win 10 first.

 

[ohio_buckeye]

If your system is Win 11 capable, a fresh install of 11 WILL activate using your Win 7 license key.
You do not need to go to Win 10 first.

You sure on that? I thought the windows free upgrade for 7 to 10 ended. But almost every time it’s worked.

 

[USAFRet]

You sure on that? I thought the windows free upgrade for 7 to 10 ended. But almost every time it’s worked.

Yes.

The "official" 7 -> 10 upgrade period ran out years ago.

You can't do an inplace Upgrade direct from 7 to 11, but I believe a license for 7 will work on a fresh install of 11.

Or, go to Win 10 in the middle, then 11.

 

[ohio_buckeye]

My license I’m still using today was I found one of the 40 dollars windows 8 upgrade packs about 2-3 years ago for around the 40 dollar mark at the time. Still sealed. So I’d installed 10 with that, then upgraded to 11 later after release.

 

[USAFRet]

My license I’m still using today was I found one of the 40 dollars windows 8 upgrade packs about 2-3 years ago for around the 40 dollar mark at the time. Still sealed. So I’d installed 10 with that, then upgraded to 11 later after release.

Right.
Thats the way it works.

And I'm reasonably sure a Win 7/8/8.1 license will activate a fresh Win 11 install.
I know it will activate a Win 10 install.

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

You can use the 8 license for Windows 10 install. No direct path to 11.