Microsoft has closed the last loophole that allowed owners of older computers to upgrade to Windows 10 and Windows 11 operating systems for free. Now owners of licensed copies of Windows 7 or Windows 8 will have to purchase a new license if they want to use the latest version. Features of the latest operating system.

“The free Windows 10/11 upgrade offer ended on July 29, 2016. The way to get a free Windows 7/8 upgrade to Windows 10 or 11 has also been removed. Upgrading from Windows 10 to Windows 11 is still free.”— the company reported this on its official blog.

Microsoft once offered a free upgrade to Windows 10 to owners of licensed copies of Windows 7 and Windows 8, and this offer was valid until July 31, 2016, a year after Windows 10 was released.

Microsoft has extended until the end of 2017 the possibility of upgrading to Windows 10 for owners of older versions of Windows that use features of the operating system for people with disabilities, such as the same “Screen Narrator”.

Officially, from now on the stated offer was now supposed to end. However, Microsoft did not officially announce this at that time. In fact, the option to upgrade from Windows 7 and Windows 8 to Windows 10 was available until recently. However, last week the company announced that it had closed this gap.