![]() ![]() ![]() Microsoft themselves doesn’t seem to enforce licensing terms all that seriously as long as there’s no copyright infringement. I looked to see if I could find case law involving online resellers for retail copies, alas I didn’t find anything. It’s not clear how a clickwrap agreement even applies prior to installation when the user is presented with an opportunity to “agree”. Of course there’s the clickwrap license agreement, but I don’t remember reading those requirements in the terms of agreement either. I don’t think that has any legal standing in copyright law. I used to deal with them when I was a windows sysadmin a long time ago.įor Windows 10 Home and Pro, if a license doesn’t come with a disc and a COA sticker inside unopened packaging, it’s not a retail license. That’s the only way to have LTSC 2019 as an individual user, there is no retail license. The reason people like you and me can buy LTSC 2019 at all is because shady resellers set up shell companies that volume-license Enterprise and then they resell the keys generated by the volume-license one at a time to people like you and me. It’s an “Enterprise” version and as such, it only gets volume-licensed to businesses. Windows 10 LTSC 2019 does not come as a retail license. But if you do buy one, you can reformat whenever you want without worries and most importantly in my mom’s case you can pass BSA inspections. I bought one for my mom’s laptop (which has to be used in a professional setting), and it cost me 90 bucks. Your cheaper option for retail is DSP (which comes in special slim packaging), but keep in mind that even that can be expensive. Anything else is either a volume-license key or a resold “big OEM” license. – For Windows 10 Home and Pro, if a license doesn’t come with a disc and a COA sticker inside unopened packaging, it’s not a retail license. Or if that fails buy a new key from someone else. If this happens to you and you need to reformat, your only recourse is to contact the shady reseller in question and ask him for a new key (which he’ll get from the new shell company he has likely set up in the meantime). Of course, this means that, if Microsoft catches wind of what those people are doing, their volume license gets yanked and the entire set of keys gets invalidated, but by then your PC will have passed activation so you won’t notice anything. – Windows 10 LTSC 2019 does not come as a retail license. The theoretical benefit is that you can buy a license once and not have to keep paying for it over and over again with every new computer. This is just one of the reasons I really miss basic ZIP archives over executable installers.įor a long time I’ve considered buying retail licenses, whether gray market or official channels. Even applications that work can be blocked by installers that refuse to let you install the software. It amazes me how often it is the installers that determine what platforms any given piece of software will support. It might be more of a bureaucratic decision than a development one, though we’d need more information to know for sure.Ī final factor could be the installers. I understand that, but I was curious about the specifics because I’m currently drawing blanks as to what specifically chrome needs from windows 10/11 on top of what windows 7/8 has. It is not just new APIs either but deprecated APIs that you no longer need to support. I am not sure what Windows 7 lacks that browsers may start using but it seems there is always something devs wants to use if give them a different minimum version. The same thing happened when they dropped Windows 2000. When browsers dropped support for Windows XP, they started to use API calls that XP did not have.
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