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I bought a pack of Win10 pro keys for $5 a key. Gray market site, but 100% legit. The few times I needed a key, it worked the first time. And for a friend who

by nekusar 1mo ago

I bought a pack of Win10 pro keys for $5 a key. Gray market site, but 100% legit. The few times I needed a key, it worked the first time. And for a friend who needed Win11, the upgrade from 10 Pro to 11 worked first time. I'd never pay more than $5 per Windows key. But I prefer Linux instead.

walrus01 1mo ago
I don't think Microsoft actually cares (or they consider it to be a good thing) because the default out of box experience on Windows 11 is to drive the average non tech home/consumer user towards a whole array of microsoft monthly recurring subscriptions for xbox live, office365 type products, onedrive, etc. In addition to driving traffic to Bing. "Oh, you need more backup space! Take this special offer now for more storage, only $NN a month".
- nekusar 1mo ago
  Completely true, that. Ive seen exactly as you said with 4 friends of mine when I helped them go over to Linux. On the Win11 side, they didnt even KNOW that they clicked a button to sync their files to some cloudshit account (Onedrive). There's no proof either way, but their files were exfil'd. But with the horrendous performance and scam behavior, Ive heelped others to Linux to really good effect. Just theres that 1 person who *needed* Windows and all the abusiv behaviors it inflicts. It was more akin to "Executives dont get fired for recommending IBM/Microsoft", and a utter refusal to try something better. Theyve been a friend for 2 decades, so I gave them the warning, but did help them.
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DANmode 1mo ago
> 100% legit. Grey market means the codes often work (valid KMS generation etc) because they match the algo, and or were validly issued to a manufacturer, but that doesn’t make them “100% legit”. Otherwise you wouldn’t be saying “grey market” - it would just be the market.

by nekusar 1mo ago

walrus01 1mo ago

I don't think Microsoft actually cares (or they consider it to be a good thing) because the default out of box experience on Windows 11 is to drive the average non tech home/consumer user towards a whole array of microsoft monthly recurring subscriptions for xbox live, office365 type products, onedrive, etc. In addition to driving traffic to Bing. "Oh, you need more backup space! Take this special offer now for more storage, only $NN a month".

nekusar 1mo ago
Completely true, that. Ive seen exactly as you said with 4 friends of mine when I helped them go over to Linux. On the Win11 side, they didnt even KNOW that they clicked a button to sync their files to some cloudshit account (Onedrive). There's no proof either way, but their files were exfil'd. But with the horrendous performance and scam behavior, Ive heelped others to Linux to really good effect. Just theres that 1 person who *needed* Windows and all the abusiv behaviors it inflicts. It was more akin to "Executives dont get fired for recommending IBM/Microsoft", and a utter refusal to try something better. Theyve been a friend for 2 decades, so I gave them the warning, but did help them.

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DANmode 1mo ago

> 100% legit. Grey market means the codes often work (valid KMS generation etc) because they match the algo, and or were validly issued to a manufacturer, but that doesn’t make them “100% legit”. Otherwise you wouldn’t be saying “grey market” - it would just be the market.