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I wonder how this would work relative to Microsoft's 'genuine' services. I remember having a whale of a time on XP. Our officially purchased Japanese CD of Wind
by Prickle 3y ago
I wonder how this would work relative to Microsoft's 'genuine' services. I remember having a whale of a time on XP. Our officially purchased Japanese CD of WindowsXP got "caught" as a non-genuine product by Microsoft.
I assume the same/similar risk exists here for this user.
If you purchased the legal copy, and it doesn't work. Then a official agent uses a illegal copy and activates your account. Then you login to a microsoft account. Do you risk losing your entire account due to a TOS violation?
- freitzkriesler2 3y agoProbably and this is why I wish after a certain amount of time Microsoft would just release a DRM free release for VMs and people who want to use it on period correct hardware. I'm still rocking a serial I used back in 2003 for an older machine I use for games and nostalgia.
- teruakohatu 3y agoWhere are these VMs? I tried to find a legitimate Microsoft XP VM to run some old software but wasn’t able to find any.
- EMIRELADERO 3y agoForget the VMs. You can use UMSKT (https://github.com/umskt/umskt https://github.com/umskt/umskt) to generate valid keys and phone activation confirmation IDs for any pre-Vista MS product.
- bombcar 3y agoThey took them down when they gave up on Edge.
- kuratkull 3y agoThat is why you try not to bind any important accounts to anything remotely fishy. Goes for Google, goes for MS, goes for everything. If you have an important account hard-linked to something very important you are sitting on a ticking bomb. EDIT: Whenever you see "Login with Facebook, Google, Github, .... or email [hidden away in smaller font]", always choose email.