There should be a way that if you decide to buy a new copy instead of renewing that you do not lose the remaining days of service.
That pop-up gets so annoying that I am almost tempted to enter my new key so I don't have to keep closing it. Now that the time is less than a week, it pops up several times per day.
I have lost at least a month's worth of service in last couple years, many days the first time not knowing that I would lose my already paid for time on my subscription, and on other years I was going on the road and did not want my computer, which I remote into, to become unprotected while I was away...
I know it is in their best interest not to change this since we end up paying more out of pocket, but as a consumer, we should get what we pay for and they should enable a method to allow the over-lapping of subscriptions so we can enter new keys ahead of time and they just roll over to the new keys when the old ones expire...
So much cheaper to get a new copy versus renewing that I would never consider renewing vs buying a new copy that makes the whole pop-up asking to renew so frustrating...