Most active way of harassment was changing your background with a black image. I think that was win 7
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Chainweasel@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It’ll harass you to activate it indefinitely but Microsoft has a policy that they’d rather have people steal their operating system than pay for someone else’s, so ultimately that’s it. It’ll just annoy you.
Siegfried@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I have been running for almost a year and don’t get a nag to activate. Just a watermark on the lower right.
Empricorn@feddit.nl 3 months ago
Uh… What? 99% of all alternatives to Windows are free (as in beer), whereas Microsoft is the one that charges money. Especially as a non-commercial user.
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Hes half right.
Its not about paying for someone elses, its about not learning someone elses ecosystem so they stay in the windows ecosystem. Its why they have never come down on people using illegal copies.
Nougat@fedia.io 3 months ago
They will come down on businesses using illegal copies. An individual with one or two or three copies running is not worth the legal expense.
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Also worth saying that they can still go after individuals if they think making an example of them is needed. Our legal system is friendly to corps too.
thefartographer@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Maybe the beer part is adding context that I’m missing, but MacOS is not free, as proven time and time again by them suing companies who tried using copies of install disks with license workarounds to create various Hackintoshes or iMacs modified into a tablet.
waigl@lemmy.world 3 months ago
MacOS is basically a different world.
lurch@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
yeah, i think that helped kill a lot of other OSes early (like OS/2, Looking Glass, etc.) and still makes creating new paid ones difficult.