Windows 10 license to a Microsoft account

With Windows 10, linking your product key to your buy office 2016 account so you can easily re-activate the operating system when you make significant changes to the hardware on your PC, such as replacing the motherboard, processor, or hard drive.

You can associate your operating system license with a Microsoft account, but in doing that you'll be required to switch to a Microsoft account. If you want to tie your license to a Microsoft Account but keep using a local account on your PC, we can do that.

In this guide, we'll show you a workaround to link your Windows 10 product key with your office professional plus 2010 account while allowing you to stay on a local account.

Here's the thing, you can link a Windows 10 product key with a Microsoft account, but you can't switch back to a local account because the process will remove the license link.

A workaround to this limitation is to use a second user account only to link the digital license to your windows 7 enterprise account. Then you can simply hide the new account on the sign-in screen, and you can keep using your already set up local account.