Re: Windoze licenses, "Bring us your Poor" edition

That's odd, must be hosted on Azure getting DDoS'd all week. There are a lot of places, some quick googling many sell these, but I've never not been able to buy from gkeys before. Microsoft probably DDoS's these vendors tinkering with their profits and exploiting loopholes for their OEM licenses.

Re: Windoze licenses, "Bring us your Poor" edition

So, it appears they are under HEAVY load.  Finally got the home page to load. However, I didn't see anything about windows licenses.  oh, well. On 6/18/23 18:22, Rusty Carruth via PLUG-discuss wrote: Argh. gkeys24 seems to be down.  Do you have an alternate source?  I'd like to make a VM 'legal

Re: Windoze licenses, "Bring us your Poor" edition

Argh.  gkeys24 seems to be down.  Do you have an alternate source?  I'd like to make a VM 'legal' by M$ standards (bah, humbug!) ;-) On 6/15/23 18:22, Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss wrote: So interestingly enough, if/when I need windoze, I often buy from a place like THIS, as a method of gett

Re: Windoze licenses, "Bring us your Poor" edition

Haha, and today I see this. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/chatgpt-generates-windows-11-pro-keys I laugh ironically at M$ when even AI helps you pirate your poor choice in OS. "Well if you must use windoze, here's a key..." Mostly exploiting the same OEM key vs proper licensing. Microsoft pa

Re: Windoze licenses, "Bring us your Poor" edition

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_segmentation >From a producer perspective, segmentation is GOOD. >From a producer perspective producing the Nth copy of a good almost for free is fantastic. But if consumers can ALSO copy and distribute your product at very, very low cost, that is Very Bad. O

Re: Windoze licenses, "Bring us your Poor" edition

Just to chime in here as a long time Windows user (SQL Server DBA), you technically don't even need a key to run Windows. I run several Windows VMs in "unactivated" mode and have never run into any issues (I don't really like "wasting" keys on VMs). Granted that there a few restrictions, such as

Re: Windoze licenses, "Bring us your Poor" edition

Michael wrote: *"Second, I tend to think these are more than likely just sold dirt cheap via 3rd world countries where Microsoft will take what it can get, even pennies ..."* Exactly. Going from distant memory here, so don't quote me, but, to determine the optimal price that they should charge fo

Re: Windoze licenses, "Bring us your Poor" edition

These are as far as I have ever been able to tell actual, working licenses. I'm on my 3rd copy of use between different devices over probably 6+ years now, Microsoft blesses my pc still as authentic, so not like it dies after a few months or eventually figures itself out. My current win10 copy I

Re: Windoze licenses, "Bring us your Poor" edition

I’m curious to know if the keys bought off this site would match any keys found in places like this: https://gist.github.com/jhermsmeier/5959110. Also, what would be the liability if you paid for the license and that key was pirated like this? To be clear, I agree with the advocation of getting the

Re: Windoze licenses, "Bring us your Poor" edition

Thanks for sharing this Michael!! If I can get a legit copy of Win10 and Win11 for cheep I will eventually install on a VM. On 2023-06-16 04:21, Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss wrote: Are the installation discs sufficient to install Win10 on a no-OS computer (or a Linux computer with some ex

Re: Windoze licenses, "Bring us your Poor" edition

> Are the installation discs sufficient to install Win10 on a no-OS computer (or a Linux computer with some extra space on the root drive)? Yep, you install the iso from microsoft.com so it's legit, vm or hardware, give it a key during/after install, and off to the races. -mb On Thu, Jun 15, 20

Re: Windoze licenses, "Bring us your Poor" edition

I've been using these on several vm's over the years without issues, full updates, etc. Microsoft tells me they're legit, so good with me. There's some argument if it's entirely legal, like buying region locked dvd's and games, but fully functional and I lose no sleep. I use them with visio and

Re: Windoze licenses, "Bring us your Poor" edition

Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss said on Thu, 15 Jun 2023 18:22:08 -0700 >So interestingly enough, if/when I need windoze, I often buy from a >place like THIS, as a method of getting Windoze officially licensed, >flat cheap. >

Windoze licenses, "Bring us your Poor" edition

So interestingly enough, if/when I need windoze, I often buy from a place like THIS, as a method of getting Windoze officially licensed, flat cheap. It updates itself, nev