Is Amazon Safe to Buy Windows 10?

Amazon actually recommends a $9.99 Windows 10 Home key from the same seller, calling it “Amazon’s Choice.” Don’t fall for the scam! The Amazon search results are full of this junk. … You can buy a digital Windows 10 Home or Windows 10 Professional license from Amazon itself, for example.

Is buying Windows 10 online safe?

Here’s what we recommend: Just don’t buy Windows 10. We’re serious here. You can install and use Windows 10 without a product key. … When you’re ready to buy Windows 10, you can pay to upgrade directly from inside Windows 10’s Store, or by purchasing a legitimate product key and typing it into Windows 10’s Settings app.

Is buying OEM Windows 10 illegal?

There’s nothing illegal about buying an OEM key, so long as it’s an official one. There are plenty of legitimate sites online that deal in this kind of software, Amazon has a number of sellers offering OEM keys, as does eBay, and more specialist sites like the aforementioned Lizengo are an option.