Did you pay for your copy of Windows yet?

Did you pay for your copy of Windows yet?

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arstechnica.com/information-technology/2006/11/6122/
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I seriously hope you guys don't do this.

enjoy your botnet on botnet action

no, why

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>tfw bought windows 7 for $40 on release
Still works fine

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Let me guess, DreamSpark?

I paid 200 for it from MS store. i am a sheep

No, you're a pure, good, law-abiding model citizen that Sup Forums should learn from.

Why would I pay for something I don't use?

There's got to be a catch with these kind of things, I haven't used this yet because I'm worried that there's gonna be some bad shit that'll come at me in the long term.

What's wrong with Microsoft Toolkit ? Been using it for 3 years now

depending on the download source, there could be a virus

You could literally upgrade fake Win 7 installs

Why would you pay for it?

Just get a 7 Pro key and do the accessibility upgrade. Somewhat of a PITA, but at least the activation will be legit.

You used to be able to use KMSpico on 8/8.1 and then do the accessibility upgrade, but that doesn't work anymore for some reason.

i missed the upgrade period. i was a win7 fag until i needed it for my new build. then i had to buy it.

You didn't miss anything. You can still upgrade for free. Sorry you wasted your money dude.

Using window, care about botnet

well i certainly could have gotten it cheaper outside of the MS store, so i'm well aware i wasted some money.

Not cheaper, free.

microsoft.com/en-gb/accessibility/windows10upgrade

It's a "good faith" upgrade, meaning they assume you meet the criteria but there are no checks for it.

>accessibility upgrade
The thing literally makes you say "Yes, I use assistive technologies and I am ready for my upgrade to Windows 10."

You do not use assistive technologies. Your upgrade rights are void.

damn, that does feel bad. could i have gotten win 10 pro with that?

Lulz...who is going to void them? They don't fucking check to make sure you're elligible. I've already done it on 6 installs, the first one about a week after the official free upgrades ended.

Yes, if your original key was pro.

Isn't there a way you could activate windows using only registry tweaks (or something)

I saw some user post about it a couple years ago

it was, but that said the old win 7 pro key is still in use on that other machine. would this process have voided that key?

I use a mouse as an assistive technology.

If you have had a Pro or above of Windows 7/8/8.1, then yes.

I didn't pay for it but I have legal copy by using phone activation exploit

Problem is you can't install Win7 on Kaby Lake anymore, so if you have a newish computer that path isn't available

>exploit
That's DRM circumvention and subsequently not legal.

Not sure, haven't tried to use a key on 7 after I upgraded with it.

that's what I used

bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/you-can-activate-windows-10-creators-update-with-old-windows-license-keys/
Legality remains highly questionable.

>can't install

Is that true? I thought you just couldn't get updates. How would they retroactively change the install process on pre-fabbed .isos?

That doesn't work anymore. When you do the upgrade it tells you that your key (KMS activation) isn't elligible.

wtf why would you ever update your computer

No, why would you pay for software if you are the product?
There is a reason microsoft gives those keys for free.

And I should care because?

>implying windows is worth paying for

never has been never will be i bet

Because you're a good person who wouldn't rip off for selfish reasons the developers who put in thousands of hours of hard work?

by the way I checked windows update; did an automatic update yesterday (which pisses me off by the way) and it's still working

I did a fresh install of my Windows 10, downloaded it from Microsoft onto my usb drive. Apparently it's rigged with the Creators Update. So now in some games, all of my USB 3.0 sockets in the back turn off randomly. No sound through headset. No mouse. No keyboard.

This is what happens when Indians are allowed to be in charge.

someone should do the math and figure out how many Windows licenses the average person owns
I probably own like 6 lol

>appealing to morality
back to plebbit

Like hell I am. Fuck those H1B pajeets.

We have a misunderstanding. I'm saying you can't use KMSpico to activate 8/8.1 and use the accessibility upgrade. It worked at one time but not anymore.

@60224897
You are not ripping developers. They are hired by microsoft and get paid set salary regardless of results. And actually microsoft considers every installation of botnet 10 a success, regardless of legal aspects.

oh
I bought a key from Kinguin and used KMSpico to activate windows
30-ish bucks total

>And actually microsoft considers every installation of botnet 10 a success, regardless of legal aspects.
Your business clearly never had a Microsoft license audit. Lucky you.

I paid for Windows XP because it was a product. I am paying for Windows 10 by using it because I am the product

At least it's the LTSB version

Last time I paid for windows was 98SE upgrade disc. I still have the box and the CD.
There is absolutely no need to pay for windows when they don't even want to stop pirates. Only commercial pirates that sell Windows get hit. Consumers are left alone.

Friendly reminder they gave people who pirated 7 the opportunity to switch for free

Shit how long we talking I haven't had a problem since release, but do install blackbird, maybe it doesn't fix most of the botnet but at least your right click menus won't lag anymore.

>Consumers are left alone.
arstechnica.com/information-technology/2006/11/6122/
FCKGW keys have been blacklisted, too

just use kms senpai

>mfw the last 5 characters are not shown in that window
>mfw I thought that was the entire serial key but NOPE
>mfw now I can't activate my windows because i only wrote down the 20 first characters and I still have no idea how to find the last 5 ones

want me to buy you windows, f.am

hi yes please me too

home fine?

yes yes yes

>Every installation of botnet 10 on personal machine
There you go. Yes, I know that enterprise is different world altogether. And you are right, I know jack shit about Microsoft audits, I'm just a simple corporate wagecuck.

holy fuck I was kidding, don't take me seriously
save your money for the guy who really needs it

They're not making consumers appear in court and pay 1 million in fines recently.

The simple drivers that automatically get installed don't install on kabylake and as a result crash on startup or extremely misbehave, that's what i read

mfw im using a pentium in my next build and had full intent to use win7

the g4560 that is, apologies for my autism

>create a malicious OS
>demand money in return
>money in undue amounts, on top of that
>literally intimidate people into paying
Fuck off Microsoft, nobody likes you, and nobody wants to pay money to such a dishonest and abusive asshole company.

At least Linux is not a pile of malware.

>That doesn't work anymore.
KMSpico 10.2 still works fine. I use it on both Win 10 Enterprise build 1607, Server 2016, and Office 365 1703. Updates work fine albeit im running a SCCM server to control them manually.

>yfw you just joined a massive RAT botnet with KMSpico
Why do you keep using tools whose source you can't read? Especially ones as simple as that.

Keep on pretending this is true. If it was trying to connect to a command and control server I would see firewall log entries.

No, I got it for free at Microsoft® Imagine©

Oy vey.... I haven't been talking about whether it works for activation or not; I know it does. I've been talking about it's use as an upgrade path for a legit 10 activation and how it no longer works for that purpose.

yes yes a good goy pays for a copy of windows (tm) after all microsoft (tm) is doing you a big favor with sharing your date so that they can catch predators so you are obliged to pay the small nominal fee

Are you using it in compliance with the usage guidelines, that is, only for purposes related to your education?

Ofcourse not.

They don't have LTSB licences, at least my uni doesn't.

So entirely useless

I work at a uni and we only get the education edition as faculty/staff. Uni owned computers get enterprise.

except it was free for a whole year, fuckface.

It will explode your computer and rape your mother

Education is still maximum botnet, they even added Cortana back to it. LTSB is the only usable version

Yes
3$ for used OEM key which is legal to resell in eu. Updated that Win7 key to w10.

I got it from my personal MSDN subscription every employee where I work gets for free, so yes.

no

Why even give $3 to some reddit jew or waste a good Windows 7 key? Just daz loader it.
After the upgrade do a clean install and you still end up with exactly the same thing.

except the goy said pay not (free upgrade) you illiterate

Win7 won't install on Kaby Lake. I know from painful experience. Intel and MS colluded to gimp it

Basically Win7 has no native USB3 drivers. Wasn't a problem before as you could just use a USB2 port or USB3 port at USB2 speeds. But now they have changed the platform to remove the whole EHCI interface for talking to USB2 ports, so everything has to go through the xHCI (traditionally the USB3 interface) which win 7 doesn't recognise.

Basically if you try to install Win7 from a USB drive on Kaby Lake it won't recognise the USB it is itself running from so can't actually install.

You can eventually bypass it by slipstreaming in updated drivers to the Win7 ISO but it is a painful process.

>Win7 won't install on Kaby Lake
I installed 7 on KabyLake laptops. Works perfectly.
Hint: use WIndows 10 boot image and replace install.wim with the one found in WIndows 7 image.

>Win7 won't install on Kaby Lake
You're just inept.
There are also motherboards that came with workarounds.

This was the problem I had. I tried for a few hours to slipstream a win 7 install but failed. I had finished building my machine and after several additional hours of fucking around with windows 7 I gave up and gave the microsoft jew money to not have to think anymore.

I have a large-print keyboard because I can't see the keys well and cant touchtype yet.

Company provided laptop.

You could have bought os/2 blue lion, enterprise linux or even give money to the reactos devs. But instead you decided to throw it down the toilet

But it never asked me to pay for anything!

Horrible.

Did Microsoft paid you for making this thread yet?

Maybe he was talking about using win10 and not about using the toolkit?!