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Do Microsoft care about piracy of Windows at the home level? It feels like they just want that sweet recurring Office 365 and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate revenue,
by Nexxxeh 5y ago
Do Microsoft care about piracy of Windows at the home level?
It feels like they just want that sweet recurring Office 365 and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate revenue, and they'll effectively give you Windows to get it.
Last I checked, you can still use an old used Windows 7 key to activate 10 on a brand new motherboard. They could stop it, but they don't make more than a token effort.
- DrBazza 5y agoThat's kind of my point. A $2tn company can probably just write off what little piracy there is left, even more so now that everything is "webby". So why they feel the need to add this to a platform they're now effectively giving away for free for the reasons you state is even more bizarre. I guess data is the next billion dollar department in Microsoft, and this is them harvesting even more of it.
- Nexxxeh 5y agoMy reading of it is, it makes signing up to 365 and XBGPU as frictionless as possible. If you're already identified and authenticated by the time you're presented with the options... If you force people to do it early in the process, you won't struggle to through that objection and difficulty when you want them to metaphorically pull out their wallets. And to make advertising more targetted, again it's recurring revenue.
- MeinBlutIstBlau 5y agoYou can. And I've been doing it for about 5 years at this point with 2 separate keys.