I can't believe it.
— TCNO/TroubleChute (@TCNOco) March 11, 2023
My official Microsoft Store Windows 10 Pro key wouldn't activate. Support couldn't help me yesterday.
Today it was elevated. Official Microsoft support (not a scam) logged in with Quick Assist and ran a command to activate windows.
BRO IT'S A CRACK
NO CAP pic.twitter.com/0vcRGu9PDE
Imagine buying Windows in 2023
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Snapshots:
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ghostarchive.org
archive.ph (click to archive)
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Sexy Indian dudes run the world
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Piratechads stay winning
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True piratechads would post a .bat on the internet for other piratechads to enjoy.
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@captain_bbbb what does pirate code have to say about illegally activating windows 10 software licenses?
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: Arrr, ye scurvy landlubber! The pirate code is clear on this matter: illegally activating Windows 10 software licenses is punishable by keelhauling! So mind yerself, lest ye end up at the bottom of the sea!
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Definitely an improvement.
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: Aye, that it is, me heartie! An' if it weren't fer the bilge rats what's been gnawin' at me boot, I'd say it be a right proper ship!
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Oh wow I hate this bot 100% less now it's a massive improvement.
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Who needs to pirate? MSDN gives you a zillion licenses.
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I don't activate so I can take screenshots with the Activate Windows watermark to trigger people.
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Hey look, it's Microsoft Activation Scripts. Not even anything custom, just downloaded right off Github (also microsoft-owned) and executed.
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People don't know about MAS? I just activated 10 IOT LTSC with it a bit ago. Just had to spoof a HWID, which took a few seconds, and it's now permanently active. I've always had suspicions it was secretly an MS project that they use themselves occasionally considering they never removed it from github and it's just being maintained by a dude called "WindowsAddict" (a totally-not-microsoft-employee)
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I feel like it's too painless not to be implicitly microsoft-endorsed. If they wanted to they could easily make windows far harder to crack.
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I believe Bill Gates did admit at one point that the ease of access provided by piracy had a noticeable effect on Window's increased market share vs alternative operating systems, and that securing that market share was worth not cracking down on collecting on license fees.
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iirc it was reddit or somewhere else that i heard this but iirc it's the volume customers like companies and stuff that microsoft makes the money on
and honestly they are probably big into azure at this point so
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That’s how most of these companies make money like Adobe, that one decompiler, etc etc
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Yep as soon as your company reaches a certain size and they detect multiple pirated photoshops coming from a company office they'll come calling. Letting poor students and young designers use pirated PS is like free marketing / penetration for enterprise sales when they grow up or their company does.
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I remember downloading random shit off IRC all the time when I was bored in college. I got the software pixar was using to make movies in the late 90s and I was showing it to my roommate, I'm like "this software is worth millions of dollars" (it wasn't) and he's like "yeah ok, can you make something cool with it?" and I was like ".... well no. THAT'S NOT THE POINT."
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111-1111111
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I remember that. An article around the same time said that more or less the entire continent of Africa was pirating windows and Microsoft cracking down on them would just make them switch to Linux and MS would permanently lose any chance they had to open up their software market there. If you think about it, they make all their sales back these days in laptop purchases anyway, where the cost is just bundled in and nobody cares.
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They've had to allow people to run their own activation servers this whole time because they have customers like the fbi and cia who will absolutely not allow their servers to phone home every 90 days to MS to check their activation status. There's another project on Github, py-kms, that reverse engineered the publically available KMS server at least 5 years ago. Works on every version of Windows server. I think it would be very hard for MS to fix this and they just can't be bothered.
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Not all versions of windows can activate with KMS. And HWID is still forced to rely on microsoft controlled servers. I think some versions like Windows Home Server were never cracked.
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I love you. Had to reformat like a year ago and couldn't find a key or this before.
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You wouldn't steal a Windows
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Do people just not hold on to their old copies of Windows? I have 2 Professional keys and another 2 or 3 Home keys I've accumulated over 15 years.
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I had a volume key for winxp that I sniped from work and used that for years
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Laptops come preinstalled is there any way to hold on like that? My last lite one came with a DOS system I ran with pirated windows my current normie laptop came preinstalled with windows and office I can't be a cool pirate anymore.
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The key was on the back of my Surface Pro 3. There's also ways of pulling it from the Windows registry, iirc.
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IIRC you can't get the full key anymore, most of it is randomized in the registry, only like the last 4 digits are real
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Some keys are "tied" to the hardware, while others can be used on any PC (one at a time).
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You can spoof that hardware ID with MAS and make windows think any PC is pre-registered.
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That's pretty cool. I've only used that thing that writes god-knows-what to BIOS that lets it legitimately activate on W7. Even lasts through re-installations or even W10.
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I think most windows licenses, including the hardware ones, only deactivate after you've swapped out like minimum 10 components in your pc lol. Guess it's how it determines what's a 'new pc' or not
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At one point you only needed to swap out the motherboard, that's what it considered a new computer.
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Im not based I just somehow ended up with lots of computers
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Piracy and cracks Just Work™ far more often than acquiring software legitimately. No online frickery, no DRM bullshit, no creating/signing into accounts. Just download and run. And it just works, forever.
It's kinda not surprising that MS employees are giving up and just using activation scripts. They work immediately, 100% of the time, forever. It must be frustrating as frick to deal with tens or hundreds of "my windows wont activate" support tickets every day. At some point they must have just snapped and said, "frick it, this works on my PCs at home, I'll just use what works."
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Why wouldn't someones Windows activate? that shit is free
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I had a pirated copy of 7 get upgraded to 10. When it wouldn't activate, contacted support saying "yeah it was the free upgrade to 10", they did something and it activated.
Built a brand new computer, signed on with the same account, and it activated just fine.
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Legit I have office (on a work computer) and that shit WOULD NOT save a pdf because "Acrobat" is not licesed.
Who the frick uses Acrobat unironically to read pdfs?
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: Jumpin' Jiminy, what kind of scurvy landlubber would be caught dead buyin' Windows in 2023? Ye best be walkin' the plank for even suggestin' such a thing, ye bilge rat!
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He said both deadass and no cap unironically in his tweet and groomercord chat log lmao
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I’m not a wiBIPOC but is that the current best way to crack it if I ever need to use windows? Is it like curl to pull a script
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reading stuff like this makes me want to stop developing for linux. these people don't deserve nice things
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definitively NGMI
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