On Fri, 09 Jun 2017 16:24:20 +0200 "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbac...@gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi, > > i wrote: > > > Are there any [MS-Windows] images available for free and legally > > > safe > > Joe wrote: > > Oddly enough, there are: > > https://www.microsoft.com/en-GB/evalcenter/evaluate-windows-10-enterprise > > The registration gives me creeps. I came up to the question whether > i want to use a Microsoft or LinkedIn account. The Microsoft account > creation asks me ifor info which i'd rather not want to give. > I have a very old (@hotmail.com) emergency Hotmail account, which is still acceptable as a Microsoft ID, though MS truncated the password to 16 characters some years ago. I bought MS Access for a client using it about a year ago. I've no idea what information I gave to create it, but that must have been around 20 years ago. > The description speaks of "Windows 10 Enterprise, version 1703 | > 64-bit ISO" which lets me expect that one really would get a ISO 9660 > filesystem image. I think so, my only concern was how big it is, it may only fit on a Blu-Ray disc, or not even that. > > I cannot find a legal statement whether it is permissible to give the > ISO image to others. So i have to assume that there is no such > permission. All in all i am not yet curious enough to start a legal > relation with Microsoft Inc. Me neither, but it *is* a free and legally installable MS OS, fulfilling the conditions... there are also Win 8 versions. I may possibly still have NT4 180-day evaluation CDs somewhere in my loft, but probably the installation is date-limited and won't work. Though they would still work as a test of iso-burning and booting. -- Joe
