This Windows upgrade post is presented by CDKeyoffers.
You may be staying home a lot as the world continues to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic, so why not get your PC upgrade house in order? Now’s a good time, given that CDKeyoffers is extending Cult of Mac readers 20% off on software product keys. In a summer sale, you can get a genuine Windows 10 Pro OEM key for just $13.65. That’s much less than what you’d have to pay Microsoft for a key.
Further, the sale allows you to grab Office 2019 Professional Plus for $33.97, the 2016 edition of Office for $51.42 and various combo packs combining products like Windows 10 Pro and productivity software. At purchase, once you enter our special discount code, CMAC, and get your key, you can install your new software on any PC.
Why upgrade?
If you’re still running Windows 7, CDKeysoffers’ deal on Windows 10 Pro is for you. Updating to Windows 10 is especially important not just to get its powerful new features, but because Microsoft eventually stops supporting its Windows versions. (In the case of Windows 7, Microsoft ended its extension of support on January 14, 2020.)
If you stay up to date with your OS version and major software package releases, you won’t miss out on tech support, system compatibility and newer functionality. Once you’re several years out of date, you could run into trouble regarding any or all of those things.
How to bag these deals
To take advantage of the deals in this summer sale, just head over to whichever CDKeysoffers product pages interest you. After you click the Buy Now button, you can enter the code CMAC at checkout. That lowers the listed price by 20%.
Let’s say you’re upgrading your OS to Window 10 Pro. After you go here and get the new key, you just download Windows 10 Pro and install it the way you normally would. After installation, go to Control Panel > System in Windows settings, click on Change product key, and enter the OEM key from CDKeyoffers to activate your copy of the OS.
Other bargains offered
The CDKeysoffers site sells reduced-price activation keys for office applications for PC and many games played on consoles (Xbox and PlayStation) and Windows computers (via Steam). Plus, with the code CMAC, you get an additional 20% discount.
So, if you recently assembled a PC, have one without an operating system, or just want a newer OS, these offers are a great way to install Windows 10 Pro, Microsoft Office and more at very attractive prices.
David Snow, an expert on Apple hardware and software, writes on a variety of technological and cultural topics for Cult of Mac. They include Apple news, technology buying guides, and features about computer setups and Apple TV shows and movies.
With 30 years of experience covering technology and other subjects, he has written and edited for numerous print and online publications, including CMP Media, TechTV.com, CNET, Wired News, Red Herring magazine, Law.com, The National Law Journal and Law Technology News magazine. Among other roles, he served as executive editor of the Law.com network of websites and editorial director, technology, for ALM Media.
Snow graduated with a B.A. from Syracuse University with majors in magazine journalism and psychology. While there, he worked as a reporter for The Daily Orange newspaper and associate editor of Equal Time magazine.
Founder of the blog At the Waterline, he can be reached on X (formerly Twitter) via @atthewaterline and on Mastodon via @dsnow.
