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I paid 13€ for an Microsoft Windows 10 Pro OEM key. I thought everyone is doing this as well?

by lionpixel 8y ago

ToFab123 8y ago
I use a windows 8 retail key
- SmellyGeekBoy 8y ago
  Last time I tried a (legitimately owned) Windows 7 Ultimate key (around 6 months ago?) it still happily activated Windows 10 despite no longer being "officially" supported.
Improvotter 8y ago
I paid 0 EUR for Linux. My school works with Windows stuff and Microsoft doesn't even provide us with free keys. It's ridiculous. Let's just keep all school stuff open source.
MarkMc 8y ago
Where did you buy such a cheap copy of Windows 10 Pro?
- lbeltrame 8y ago
  Those are digital (unused) licenses, that although can't technically be resold, they "can" be in Europe as they contradict a ruling made in 2012 (I don't have time to dig the link up, unfortunately).
  - SmellyGeekBoy 8y ago
    To be fair they aren't necessarily unused. I made the mistake of buying one once and had to jump through a lot of hoops to get Microsoft to activate it. I'm still not sure that it was entirely legal, if I'm honest.
  - Strom 8y ago
    Those cheap licenses are always used. They exploit the fact that these can be used to activate ~10 copies of Windows. It's even worse than that though. One seller could keep track of this limit, but what happens is that a bunch of sellers source their keys from other similar sellers. So they don't even know how many times a key has been used. Last time I bought one of these 15€ keys for a friend, I had to write to the customer support over 10 times and shuffle through at least 6 different keys until one actually worked.
Jyaif 8y ago
Where did you get such a deal?
lloeki 8y ago
Power of defaults. People have Home, they stay on it. Nonetheless, if you can go from Home to Pro with 13€ it feels quite ridiculous that there is a Home/Pro distinction at all from the very start.
juhzy 8y ago
I paid 0€ for the LTSB version just by changing the KMS server. I thought everyone is doing this!

I paid 13€ for an Microsoft Windows 10 Pro OEM key. I thought everyone is doing this as well?

ToFab123 8y ago

I use a windows 8 retail key

SmellyGeekBoy 8y ago
Last time I tried a (legitimately owned) Windows 7 Ultimate key (around 6 months ago?) it still happily activated Windows 10 despite no longer being "officially" supported.

Improvotter 8y ago

I paid 0 EUR for Linux. My school works with Windows stuff and Microsoft doesn't even provide us with free keys. It's ridiculous. Let's just keep all school stuff open source.

MarkMc 8y ago

Where did you buy such a cheap copy of Windows 10 Pro?

lbeltrame 8y ago
Those are digital (unused) licenses, that although can't technically be resold, they "can" be in Europe as they contradict a ruling made in 2012 (I don't have time to dig the link up, unfortunately).
- SmellyGeekBoy 8y ago
  To be fair they aren't necessarily unused. I made the mistake of buying one once and had to jump through a lot of hoops to get Microsoft to activate it. I'm still not sure that it was entirely legal, if I'm honest.
- Strom 8y ago
  Those cheap licenses are always used. They exploit the fact that these can be used to activate ~10 copies of Windows. It's even worse than that though. One seller could keep track of this limit, but what happens is that a bunch of sellers source their keys from other similar sellers. So they don't even know how many times a key has been used. Last time I bought one of these 15€ keys for a friend, I had to write to the customer support over 10 times and shuffle through at least 6 different keys until one actually worked.

Jyaif 8y ago

Where did you get such a deal?

lloeki 8y ago

Power of defaults. People have Home, they stay on it. Nonetheless, if you can go from Home to Pro with 13€ it feels quite ridiculous that there is a Home/Pro distinction at all from the very start.

juhzy 8y ago

I paid 0€ for the LTSB version just by changing the KMS server. I thought everyone is doing this!