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whats the difference between owning a legit windows 10 and a fake windows 10?

saif96
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so i was pretty shocked to figure out that windows 10 was actually was for sale, i had no idea, i asked my friend about it he said that the guy that build my pc didnt install a legitimate windows 10 to my PC he installed it into my PC for free 

 

this sounds kinda illegal but whatever, he said theirs no difference at all and i guess thats kinda true, i havent spotted anything for years on my pc, i still get updates and everything so whats the difference between getting a legitimate windows 10 vs a fake free windows 10? if theirs a difference ill buy it in my next pc build

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4 minutes ago, saif96 said:

so i was pretty shocked to figure out that windows 10 was actually was for sale, i had no idea, i asked my friend about it he said that the guy that build my pc didnt install a legitimate windows 10 to my PC he installed it into my PC for free 

 

this sounds kinda illegal but whatever, he said theirs no difference at all and i guess thats kinda true, i havent spotted anything for years on my pc, i still get updates and everything so whats the difference between getting a legitimate windows 10 vs a fake free windows 10? if theirs a difference ill buy it in my next pc build

Windows with no license key will have that "activate windows" in the computer. It will also disable windows customization and some networking features. No performance difference, and microsoft will still do customer support for you

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If its activated with grey market key, there's no difference between that and authorized one. Not in normal operation, updates etc. The difference comes if Microsoft decides to act on it being sold against their ToS. If they do, they will outright blacklist the key. Meaning that you will loose activation and there's no way getting it back. Nothing except paying for new key.

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