Now, if I can get a license and free upgrade on my pirated PhotoShop, it would be nice, although I still can’t understand or figure out how to use 98% on the stuff in it.
There was a time MS was also sort of encouraging downloads/torrents of VISTA, but VISTA was so bad, they didn’t have many takers.
I had “genuine” Win 7 on my laptop, but a repair shop installed a non-genuine version.
Used it several years, without trouble UNTIL I attempted to upgrade to Win 10.
Microsoft detected it, prevented the upgrade, and have nagged me ever since.
If this amnesty is real, wonderful.
Offered to the entire nation of China then.
Hell. I have a laptop running a legit OEM copy of Win7(shipped without install media), and MS Update says it isn’t “Genuine”. The manufacturer advised me to contact MS, and MS told me to contact the manufacturer who again told me to contact MS. It was beginning to be like a civil war among Indians with such a conflict regarding the mutual lack of “tech support”....
This may be a way of escaping this months long clusterf*ck, and I’m a paying customer!
They sure are desperate to get everyone on Win10.
What’s in it for Microsoft, hmmmmm?
Wow, they may really despise pirates if their response is to give them W10! OTOH, maybe they just don’t want to miss out on the spying and tyranny assistance opportunities that W10 gives them.
MSFT just wants everyone on 10 then MSFT will start charging annual rent.
LOL!
MS says this as if people with pirated copies were having difficulty getting Win10 before.
No, it’s not amnesty, it’s them wanting people to upgrade to 10. Someone is very, very desperate for us to use 10. The question is why such a push? It’s FREEEE!!! We’ll forgive you!!! We’ve even stuck an icon on your desktop to remind you 24/7!!! Google and Yahoo’s headlines blast it at you every day!!! You can’t escape 10!!! You vil obey!!!
No, that’s nothing I can support.