perhaps this is why windows is going to a monthly subscription service? or so i have heard (here)
I believe that much of windows is the security features, the programming necessary to keep their business model going, so that after a while, like 30 days for the free trial, the program becomes junk in some way, like it crashes more, etc.
And this is true of the 'fake' methods of 'authenticating' or what they call making sure you have a real license. So, if you license is kind of wonky it works better than nothing but not that great and they laugh at you for using a borked up system, till you maybe get tired of that and buy the real thing. At least that is my experience. Now maybe some have figured out a system that works, idk. There is nothing we can do about the rest of the jokers but we ourselves can be legit participants.
Windows/Microsoft uses the information in these forums to advance its capabilities to repel boarders, so to speak, the pirates of the 'seas'. So talk all you want, even use their stuff and keep working on being pirates, so they have more information about them. It is a 'cyber-war' of sorts and this is like a questionable bar in the war zone, are we with 'us' or with 'them'?
Maybe you waste your time or maybe the efforts of the pirating is worthwhile, up to you to decide that individually.
I think you are kind of ridiculous, because for one windows is like about a hundred bucks for a retail key that lasts forever and is transferrable, and another because there is Linux, so... what is the point of this? It is more honorable to put all your efforts into supporting linux if you can't be bothered to be a legit windows user/supporter.
Who ARE you?