Microsoft is making the digital license a bit unique by linking.
Windows 10 home digital license upgrade to pro.
Buying a windows 10 pro upgrade from the microsoft store app and successfully activated windows 10.
As you can see from the above while this will upgrade your copy of windows 10 home to pro what it won t do is activate it.
If you do have a copy of windows 10 pro or maybe you found a retail copy of the upgrade for less than microsoft charges you ll have a product key alternately called a license key that enables windows 10 pro.
If you recently upgraded to windows 10 before the free upgrade offer expired a digital license should be attached to your device.
Upgrade from windows 10 home to pro via a license key digital license.
In fact you only need to use the older product key one time.
Before upgrading to windows 10 pro make sure your device is up to date and running the most recent version of windows 10 home.
If you decide you like the pro version you will need your own.
If you work with big data create large graphics edit video or need cad computer aided design windows 10 pro for workstations is for you.
To upgrade from windows 10 home to windows 10 pro and activate your device you ll need a valid product key or a digital license for windows 10 pro.
After you upgrade from windows 10 home the windows 10 pro digital license is attached to the specific hardware you just upgraded.
Digital license being a windows insider and upgrading to the newest windows 10 insider preview build on an eligible device that was running an activated earlier version of windows and windows 10 preview.
You can usually spot an oem license by its price which tends to run about 110 for a windows 10 home license and 150 for a windows 10 pro license.
You ll need it to replace your current license key.
All the features of the operating system.