Today Gates openly concedes that tolerating piracy turned out to be Microsoft’s best long-term strategy. That’s why Windows is used on an estimated 90% of China’s 120 million PCs. “It’s easier for our software to compete with Linux when there’s piracy than when there’s not,” Gates says.
Also, if everyone is used to the Windows environment, there is little reason for most businesses to get something but Windows and that’s where Microsoft makes the money. Almost everyone who has done anything with computers has used Windows and doesn’t need to be specifically taught.
No, you don’t. You can just be unverified forever
You can use a Microsoft-approved crack
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2007/jul/18/winningthrough
Also, if everyone is used to the Windows environment, there is little reason for most businesses to get something but Windows and that’s where Microsoft makes the money. Almost everyone who has done anything with computers has used Windows and doesn’t need to be specifically taught.
Pretty sure that was recently patched, as in last week, though it was open for years. Im sure something will take its place
It has started working again. https://github.com/massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts#note-hwid-activation-is-working-again-with-a-new-method
Or they’ll just make it work again