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Howard_Casto:
Well, I don't want to get into a debate about piracy and all that nonsense, mostly because it isn't nearly as big an issue as companies want you to believe but...

Years ago when dinosaurs roamed the earth and we were all running some form of windows 9x, it was quite easy to "acquire" a key and put it on a machine because they didn't dial home to check. The Xp/2000 era still had piracy but it was limited because the internet was officially a thing and if you wanted to use the internet with a pirated version of xp you had to use a valid, yet flagged key and hope the machine never gets found or install a cracked dll that could potentially have a virus and most certainly slowed your system.

From vista onward, things got significantly more complex and now that we are in the present... if you want a machine that has a current OS on it.... eh it's just less of a headache to buy a copy and go legit. I'm not saying it's impossible for you fledgling pirates out there, it's just no longer worth the effort.

BadMouth:
Ssme here. System builder copies on sale for a reasonable price ($70-80) made it not worth the bother, even for a locally sourced enterprise key. Now if I could just update the old pc in my cab from vista to one version newer for $20-30, I'd be good. I know right now that would include the possibility of getting the most current OS for nothing more, but I have no interest in doing that. Maybe that's why the Vista updates are selling for more than usual.

Howard_Casto:
Well ebay and amazon as well as slightly shadier sites have an oem upgrade key for around that price. If you order it from ebay or amazon they have protection plans in place, so if the sellers send you a bogus one and try to be a jerk about it, you can eventually get your money back.

If you get a key, my suggestion is even if you don't want 10 now... go ahead and upgrade and then uninstall. If I understand the program right, once you install 10 you have the license from now on... so if you ever wanted to upgrade in the future you could. Someone more familiar with the license program could clarify.

_Iz-:
I would encourage you to go to mydigitallife dot net and read through their forums regarding oem activatioms for windows 7.

Its easy to upgrade from that to win10. I've done a couple myself and they activate as genuine.

SavannahLion:
Is Windows 10 the goto OS now? I'm sitting on two activations right now and delayed because of the whole Microsoft-is-watching-us business.

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