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You don't have to pirate it, you just download it off their website and don't activate it. It'll work, but you can't change your desktop background.

It is if you don't pay for a license but at this point I don't even want to use it for free.

I thought it was young Albert Einstein who figured out how to make actually good beer by splitting the beer atom and therefore introducing bubbles in an otherwise flat beer?

Most average users consider Microsoft a trusted source, that’s the root cause of a whole lot of crap.

I remember when I installed SP3 for XP... On my AMD machine.

Lack of trust in Microsoft started on that fateful day.

For those in particular, they had 2 and 4 TBT3 models.

That's fair. This being the Fediverse, private messages aren't private either, so protect yourself!

Now I wish you'd tell us what the company is so if I ever need anything in that industry, I'd know where to buy from.

Easiest is to just create an account with fake info. They don't do any KYC for regular users AFAIK.

Should be installing Firefox anyway, otherwise why don't you just use Edge, it's also Chromium...

I'm saying they might send people the bill and then these people (well, companies) are going to have to fight it in court, where they'll be right for sure, but Microsoft can make a lot of stupid arguments to prolong the whole thing, to the point where it's cheaper to pay the license fee. For one they could say that continued use of the operating system constitutes agreement to licenses and pricing.

Either way this is server 2025 not windows 12. We're talking about companies here, not people.

Ah, but did you read the article?

MS didn't force it, Heimdal auto-updated it for their customers based on the assumption that Microsoft would label the update properly instead of it being labeled as a regular security patch. Microsoft however made a mistake (on purpose or not? Who knows...) in labeling it.