• JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    A product key, which allows you to use Windows to its fullest, costs money to Microsoft.

    • tutus@links.hackliberty.org
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      7 months ago

      That’s a myth that people need to stop spreading.

      Microsoft is a business. Microsoft is also not stupid. If it cost them more to provide a product than it makes them, they wouldn’t provide it. They’re is a huge amount of examples of them doing this. They don’t provide it because they’re nicer guys.

      Microsoft uses Windows, and all of it’s products, as a vehicle for Azure and advertisers. Everything they do feeds into that one way or another.

      Microsoft stopped being a software company some time ago.

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      7 months ago

      Most people here pirate it or get the price bundled with their manufacturer. It’s surprisingly easy