Microsoft OEM System Builder DVD | Windоws 10 Home | 64-bit | Intended use for new systems | Upgradable to Windows 11 | Branded by Microsoft (DVD FORMAT)
[{'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on August 24, 2017', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-1 review-rating', 'review_body': 'As cheap as this was, I was worried this was too good to be true.\n\nIt was. The key was stolen / already activated. Totally invalid and useless.\n\nAt least JW Geek responded promptly to my refund request and granted it without any hassle.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on January 29, 2017', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-1 review-rating', 'review_body': "I was building my first computer and bought this along with all the component parts. It took five days to arrive and I was very excited. I spent most of the day building the pc and then tried to install windows.\n\nEverything was fine until I had to activate windows. The key printed on the envelope was not being accepted. I called customer service and was passed back and forth until I spoke to senior Microsoft tech support. The person I talked to, a guy who said his name was Brian Ryan, said that he was 150% certain I had purchased a pirated product. I asked him how Microsoft could permit pirated products to be sold on such a well known website. He had no explanation but said he constantly gets calls from amazon customers who received pirated micrisoft products.\n\nI offered to email him proof I purchased the software but he said they did not have the ability to access email. How ridiculous is it that a major software company doesn't even give it's employees email accounts. I also told him I was a long term Microsoft customer with an xbox live subscription going back 7 years. He said it didn't matter and there was nothing he was willing to do. The product was pirated and that is the bottom line.\n\nI told him I was going to write a review to inform people amazon sells pirated windows software. He indicated that was a good idea. So there you go, I guess this poor review has Microsoft's seal of approval. Whatever you do don't buy this from amazon."}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on October 4, 2016', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': 'UPDATE: Contacted Amazon and they overnighted me a new copy of Windows 10 and it worked like a charm. Kudos to Amazon for making it right.\n\nJust installed this today on a pc I built for my son. After typing in the COA to activate Windows, it said my copy was not valid. Went to Microsoft tech support page and discovered my copy is possibly counterfeit. I will be filing a complaint with Amazon. Buyer beware.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on December 31, 2018', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': 'I used this for a new system build. This comes in a sealed envelope with the install DVD and the activation code that you scratch off. The code worked as promised. The easy way to install Windows 10 on a new PC build:\n1. Have a USB flash drive that is at least 8GB\n2. Go to the Windows download website and download the installer tool.\n3. This will install Windows on your USB stick.\n4. Plug in the USB stick to your new motherboard and it will be recognized as a bootable drive.\n5. Select the USB drive and boot.\n6. It will ask for an activation code that is on the inside of the envelope you received. Enter it and Windows 10 will install. Took about 15 min to install on. Samsung 970 EVO Nvme drive.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on June 20, 2016', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-1 review-rating', 'review_body': 'this operating system cannot be activated. windows activation server reports is has already been activated too many times.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on February 17, 2019', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': 'The Free windows update that I paid over 116.00 dollars for destroyed my PC. I had a super machine that was totally upgrade-able. I had a Quad 4- i7 processor and 12 gb of ram on MOBO which can be upgraded to 32 GB of Ram and 2 drives and a recovery. I tried twice to install a \'Clean Install" but it stopped twice during the process. I must admit I got Microsoft on the phone pretty quick , so we tried for another hour or two but to no Prevail . I was told to take my desk top pc to my local store located in Mid-Town Manhattan and they told me I had a hardware failure ? I said the machine was fine until I put your rotten Win 10 disk in my PC. I was told by their tech specialist that my MOBO blew up ! I said what ! How can that be !? The machine ran like a fine Swiss watch on Win 7 pro.. I was told that the machine must now go out for further Diagnosis on hardware and how much it is going to cost me !!!! So far 116 and change for Win 10 O.S. from Amazon plus 50 dollars to ship my PC from Microsoft out for more complex testing facility, which can take up to 4 weeks and cost me over 600 dollars!!!?? I told the Microsoft Rep that your OS 10 is destroying perfectly good machines. This Desktop cost me 1500 plus!! All you have to do is google " Win 10 Destroyed my motherboard and the case is closed. There are countless lawsuits pending class action just do a search.. I will follow up with this store and my comment about my Microsoft experience when they call me with the results. I told them I have 2 more Win 7 pro machines that must be upgraded but how can I trust Microsoft!!?? After over 20 yrs of windows and at least 6 different O.S\'s and at least 15 different machines ...Countless crashes Windows Vista and Millennium .... I AM READY TO JUMP THE FENCE AND RUN TO APPLE. HEED MY WARNING!\n\nUPDATE!!!!\n\nI RECEIVED A CALL FROM MY LOCAL MICROSOFT STORE WHICH SENT OUT MY CUSTOM -HP PAVILION HPE FOR FURTHER TESTING. AFTER 3 WEEKS I RECEIVE A CALL FROM THE TECH DEPT AND THEY SAID "BIOS\' AS SOON AS I HEARD THAT WORD, I KNEW THIS IS A PROBLEM WAS BETWEEN MICROSOFT AND THE PC MANUFACTURE. THIS IS NOT A CUSTOMER ISSUER. THE STAFF WAS GREAT IN MID-TOWN MANHATTAN AND WERE POLITE AFTER A DEBATE THAT I WON AFTER WORKING ON WINDOWS FOR ALMOST 20 YRS AND 6 OS\'s . I TOLD THEM THANK YOU AND THEY TOLD ME BRING MY OTHER 2 WIN7 PRO MACHINES IN AND WE WILL UPGRADE THEM FOR FREE. i WILL TRY TO INCLUDED THE WORK ORDER..\n\nSERVICE\nScope of Work: Resolution & Work Completed:\nCustomer attempted to install windows 10 and it\nfailed.\nPerform Hardware Diagnostics\nNo data back up**\nClean install of windows 10.\nWindows 10 disc still inside**\nReset CMOS and got unit to boot, installed Win10,\nupdated BIOS and all drivers, device passed diagnostics\nand functions testing, sending to final QC\nIt is so nice that Microsoft took full responsibility and I changed my mind 180 degrees about the company, still cautious but optimistic until my other 2 machines are running right on the new OS which will be installed right before OS 7 becomes not supported..THANK YOU AGAIN MID-TOWN MANHATTAN'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on November 19, 2016', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-1 review-rating', 'review_body': 'This is not a review of the Windows 10 OS, but of this specific product key and disc:\n\nI ordered this item to use the product key on my custom built PC. When I entered the key to activate Windows, I got an error stating "product key already entered," and would not allow me to activate Windows 10. This strongly suggests this is not a genuine copy of Windows and is therefore STOLEN or SOLD TO MULTIPLE PARTIES. I understand this may seem hyperbolic, but I just want to warn other people out there building your own PC--this will not activate Windows on your newly built PC booted from a USB, and this product is essentially defective. Very disappointing.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on March 3, 2018', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': 'I took a chance on buying this given the inconsistent reviews regarding the Product Code. My HP laptop had some major issues that I think was related to some type of Malware, although none of the Malware/Anit-Virus programs could identify the issue. I decided I needed to start all over and reload Windows. The problem I had is my laptop came with Windows 7 and I upgraded to Windows 10. I also did not have a copy of the restore media that came with my Computer and my Recovery Drive was corrupted. This software arrived in one day, I loaded the DVD and it NEVER even asked me for the Product Code. My guess is it may have recognized my Computer already had Windows 10, so maybe the Product Code was not required. I loaded the DVD and had it erase everything, reload Windows 10, then download all the critical and current Windows 10 updates and now I am back up and running smooth and efficiently. This completely fixed MY problem so for that reason I am very happy! Luckily I had all my DOCS, Pics, and Videos Backed Up to an External Seagate Drive that allowed me to simply transfer them back to the Laptop after the install.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2018', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': "I have a 2 year old laptop that was running Windows 7, and wanted to upgrade to Windows 10. Within 2 days Amazon sent me an official Microsoft sealed disk with the product key hidden under a scratch off on the cover. However, I didn't need the key. I simple turned on my PC, and after it came up under Window 7, I inserted the Windows 10 disk. It opened up, and other than replying to a few prompts, it ran on it's own completely until it finished. It then restarted my computer and up came the fully implemented version of Windows 10. No problems, simple upgrade."}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on January 26, 2021', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': "I bought this at the suggestion of my brother when creating my first PC build I don't think he realized it was a disc because he forgot to suggest a DVD drive when I showed him my final choices (for my first ever self build). I realized it with enough time to purchase a cheap external cd/dvd drive that others had said would work to install on a new build (about 20$), which was fine because I would have bought one eventually anyway.\n\nAfter some initial, unrelated troubleshooting I finally got the PC to boot to where I could check the bios and such. I restarted the computer with the external drive and this disc inside and it began the installation process.\n\nThe code is a small silver piece on the sticker and just very gently use a penny or other coin to scratch off. When it asked for the code I plugged it in with the help of a family member who came over when I was doing the troubleshooting (a cord wasn't plugged into the PSU correctly) reading it off to me and it worked.\n\nI'm not sure why others had trouble with it accepting the code, but I guess I was lucky in that it worked for me and windows installed correctly and I am now writing this review on my newly built PC with all newly aquired (those some gently used) parts!\n\nAccomplishment unlocked!"}]