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adiabatichottub parent
Why should they? They have bulk licensing deals with PC OEMs and large organizations. They've already got the big money. J. Random Hacker building a PC isn't even a rounding error to them.
michaelmrose
Quite right in fact limited weak copyright protection helps retain marketshare that might be lost otherwise especially when that weak protection in fact costs little real revenue.
aspenmayer
It looks even smarter from the MS side when you think of all the threat intel that they gather from pirated Windows installs that can be used as a baseline to compare legit installs against.
userbinator
Also, they still get the ad revenue and telemetry if you pirate Windows and otherwise leave it stock.

...of which the tools to disable that invasiveness are also on GitHub, so maybe they just care more about maintaining marketshare.

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