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[sharp weiner]

Don’t they basically give it away for free? The one you install off their site limits you with a watermark background (perhaps there are other limits?).

Yeah.
It runs forever without activation now.
It’s free with an asterisk I guess

 

[Gp1]

My main PC went with a full Mobo swap + multiples HDD/SSD with the same 15 years old OEM Windows 7 key. I believe I've never fully formated It.

 

[SirKicksalot]

My main PC went with a full Mobo swap + multiples HDD/SSD with the same 15 years old OEM Windows 7 key. I believe I've never fully formated It.

Yeah I thought the license is tied to the motherboard but I replaced everything multiple times (sometimes only keeping the SSDs) and it never requested a new key.

 

[Kamina]

I guess i am a very boring product for Microsoft:
Most spyware features disabled
Surf Nexus to download mods
Play game

 

[Unknown Soldier]

MS hasn't cared for a long time now, I remember the pirated key everyone used for Windows XP

My main computer is a MacBook Pro though, so I couldn't give less of a shit about Windows really. I use Windows as a launcher for games on my gaming PC and laptop and that's it

 

[Unknown Soldier]

People are not even installing Windows 11 for free.

That's because MS is not letting older computers install it. They want to force everyone to buy new computers and we're about to find out the limits of that strategy when they end support for Win10 at the end of this year

 

[Trilobit]

Shigeru Miyamoto:

Shuntaro Furukawa: