I have a number of Dell 8700 Towers as well as a number of laptops, everything runs Windows 7, as I need it to for work related things.
I just unboxed an 8700 tower that was mistakenly sold as a Windows 7 computer from new. It's Windows 8. From what I read online (tell me if I'm understanding it correctly) as long as it's a Windows computer with the Windows 8 key properly licensed in the bios or wherever it's tucked in from new, that the Windows 7 will load and work with my Windows 7 disc. and automatically work with some generic key... Is this correct? I'm in a pinch, and can't wait for a new key to arrive from Ebay or wherever, (I'm working on this over the weekend) and the last time I asked Microsoft for any help with something like this I was on the phone for 2 hours and didn't get anything solved.
Thanks for your input!