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Lots of PCs are poised to fall off the Windows 10 update cliff one year from today (arstechnica.com)

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (5 children)

It’s not available for individual consumers though unless you pirate it, isn’t it? (which makes it perfectly good reason to pirate it)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Pirating it is a bad idea if you're downloading it from a non-Microsoft source, since malware would be a big risk. That would defeat the purpose of installing a supported OS in the first place. If you download it from Microsoft and use a pirated key maybe that would work, but would you get the security updates?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Are there people downloading Windows copies somewhere else than straight from Microsoft? I haven’t used Windows on my computers in 10 years but back then you installed it in trial mode and then activated / kept it activated with KMS tools.