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Didn't I pay for the OS?
You pay for the privilege of getting ads beamed directly to your desktop
Sure, we've had first payment..
"We've had one payment, yes. What about second payment?"
What about windows elevensies?
I paid for 10.
Which is why I never enabled TPM on my motherboard. I didn't pay for 11. I do not want 11.
I paid for 7 and upgraded it to 10. I may go to 12 later on (Windows alternates between solid and awful, so 12 may be fine) but it's also quite likely I'll wind up moving to a Linux distro as my primary and keeping Win10 as a fallback. No way in hell am I touching 11.
Did anyone pay for 11?
Microsoft has been giving it free left and right.
Everyone paid for a windows os, but they've been forcing upgrades for what I assume are completely unrelated reasons
The reason being that uninformed users didn't update at all and then blamed Microsoft.
.... and they're discontinuing support for windows 10....
I did. I was naive and had just built a gaming pc. 10 was no longer for sale
I didn't pay for the OS.
Where did you come up with that figure? I have two PCs and they have two separate licenses. One is custom built and the other was prebuilt.
Pretty much everyone I know has a pirated copy unless it's in an enterprise setting or pre-installed with the hardware.
Been the case since Windows 98, might be longer too.
Why would anyone pirate Windows and risk malware? You can download it for free straight from Microsoft, and you can just skip the product key step during installation, it works without a key just fine.
So you guessed? You don't have any kind of way of confirming that figure? I see 37% from some studies. Microsoft itself has monetary estimates but no percentages of stolen software.
But how did you figure out that number. You don't know everyone on Earth. What websites or facts did you use to throw together an assumption that so many people use with pirated gear?
Even if that's true, custome pcs are a tiny fraction of client computing, oem desktops and especially laptops completely own client computing, most people only ever get a laptop
I don't understand then, if you know that they are relatively rare, then why do they matter to the discussion at hand?