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With the risk of linking to 4chan; there is a /g/ guide to how to navigate Windows and it recommends exactly this.[0] However: I do not publicly endorse softwa

• haunter 3y ago
  It's literally on archive.org, just download the ISO and you can activate it with MAS MS doesn't care about piracy at all. They'd rather let you pirate it than losing you by switching to Linux or Mac
  • tourmalinetaco 3y ago
    Exactly. They don’t make (as much) money off of individuals buying licenses, the real dough is in bulk business licensing. And businesses want to do that in part because of the unparalleled software accessibility. The more people that use Windows, pirated or not, the more demand there is for Windows software, which locks enterprise customers in.
    • squarefoot 3y ago
      True. Also, people using pirated Windows make anyway a critical mass where legit users can find someone to ask for help. Microsoft doesn't care about piracy as long as regular users know more people that would help them with Windows than for example with Linux. If tomorrow all users of pirated Windows OS and related software would magically migrate to Linux, the monetary loss for Microsoft would be zero, but more legit users might be incentivized to switch away from it because of the sudden raise in Linux knowledge around them. I'm sure Microsoft would be absolutely terrified by such scenario. And then there's user profiling and advertising, which works also on pirated copies, but that's another story.
      • Dalewyn 3y ago
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  • neurostimulant 3y ago
    FYI, anyone can upload anything to archive.org. Downloading the ISO from archive.org doesn't means the ISO is free from malware so please exercise caution just as you do when downloading ISOs off a torrent site.
    • haunter 3y ago
      Yeah true indeed. At least the hash values are publicly available so you can double check that it's indeed the correct file you have downloaded.
• Dalewyn 3y ago
  I absolutely love how the opening image is Madobe Nanami. Stay awesome, 4chan.
• apapapa 3y ago
  publicly
• rkagerer 3y ago
  My god how I would happily pay 5X per copy for a Windows that had all the shitty new garbage culled out (like ALL the Telemetry and forced updates).
  • southernplaces7 3y ago
    Since pretty much nobody here wants to link to it because blah blah blah. Here's the link for a nice clean edition of Windows 10 LTSC that you can even activate right through the same site. Amusing fearfulness in a "hacker" site. https://massgrave.dev/genuine-installation-media.html https://massgrave.dev/genuine-installation-media.html
    • ornornor 3y ago
      Thank you!
  • Dork1234 3y ago
    It is $200-300 per license times 5x. It it worth $1000-$1500 for it?
    • CamperBob2 3y ago
      Yes, I'd be fine with that. For better or worse, Windows is a key part of my daily business and life in general, and I don't expect it to be free. I regularly use Windows applications that cost more than $1500 by themselves. If I wanted a free OS, there are other OSes for that, for which I would still have to pay with my time. $1500 for a clean, advertising- and telemetry-free Windows LTSC license would be a bargain... if only they'd ask.
      • LeFantome 3y ago
        If true, I think you can subscribe to LTSC today and get what you want.
        • CamperBob2 3y ago
• runjake 3y ago
  FWIW, the 4chan stuff covers W10 LTSC. As far as I know there isn’t a W11 LTSC yet. Then again, if you’re reading an article about XP you probably don’t care.
  • zamadatix 3y ago
    This is correct, the first Windows 11 LTSC is expected in the latter half of this year.