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Microsoft does provide recovery disks for download: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows7 https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-downloa
by RIMR 9y ago
Microsoft does provide recovery disks for download: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows7 https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows7
Only recently did you need to enter your license key to download them. Regardless, you need the license key to activate the OS, so these disks did not enable anyone to use the OS who did not already own a legitimate license.
Microsoft's lost revenue came in the form of reduced sales of redundant licenses..
- cptskippy 9y agoYour link is to installation media, not recovery/restore media. Microsoft does not make Recovery/Restore media. Recovery/Restore discs are custom made by OEMs under license from Microsoft. > Microsoft's lost revenue came in the form of reduced sales of redundant licenses.. If this were true then Microsoft would not have persuaded Federal prosecutors to lower their estimates. Originally prosecutors claimed the discs were valued at $299 a pop but Microsoft informed them that they sold refurbishers a license for $25 and that the discs were worth $20 at most.