Re: DFS claims they can't give away Linux ...

On 2024-12-24, TomB <tommy.bongaerts@gmail.com> wrote:

On 2024-12-23, the following emerged from the brain of DFS:

On 12/23/2024 1:36 PM, TomB wrote:

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For some reason it has always been possible to activate Windows 10
with an existing Windows 7 key. It's not exactly 'giving away', but
MS made it extremely easy to have a fully activated Windows 10 without
spending any money.
 
So there's that :-)

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It's been nearly 7.5 years since the resident rock drummer/Linux
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How's your latest Windows job going?
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Note: the Internet says you can't use your Win7 key to activate Win10.

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The Internet can say whatever it likes, it's still possible. Did that
many times on the Windows job and the result was always a fully and
properly licensed Windows 10, with digital entitlement and all. The
real funny bit is that I'm upgrading those to Windows 11 now, so
that's three versions with just a single purchase.

I know for a fact that Windows 7 (I think even Windows Vista) licenses work
all the way up to Windows 11. (You have to create a Rufus Install USB and
turn off the check TPM setting for old machines on Windows 11.)

The Windows job's fine by the way. Still using a surprising amount of
GNU/Linux, even more than ever these days. Most servers are still on
Debian and Ubuntu, a lot of PCs in our labs are also on Ubuntu, and
we're now even have around 10% of laptops on Ubuntu as well (although,
unfortunately, we have a project underway to move those back to
Windows after about 5 years).

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