Windows not genuine

[CWO]

Anyone have a Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit disc they want to sell? I'm currently running 32bit and since I'm getting the notification that it's not genuine, I want to get the 64bit and be done.

Thanks

[John -- '02 HAWK]

just wait for win10 and they dont care if its pirated

[Gasser64]

Stop breaking the law asshole

[big_tiger]

Its not about the disc anyways; it is all about the Key. I agree with the Hawk.

[CWO]

all taken care of

[abecx]

just wait for win10 and they dont care if its pirated

This.

Blows my mind the changes Microsoft is doing.

[line-em-up]

If you can't beat em', join em'. They are trying to break into the Chinese market. Counterfeiting is so big over there that they can't sell the OS. So, they are trying to get a foothold by letting people have it so that it will become a popular OS. If what you have now shows up as not being authentic, the upgrading to 10 won't fix that.

[abecx]

The product I work on gets 200 million hits a day about 10% of that is Chinese traffic and it is fucking disgusting. So many pre-windows 2000 platforms out there.

[John -- '02 HAWK]

This.

Blows my mind the changes Microsoft is doing.

my only worry is that they are trying to migrate to a subscription based cloud service and authentication

[Ratt]

my only worry is that they are trying to migrate to a subscription based cloud service and authentication

I'm not even sure you know what you mean when you said cloud in that context. I doubt they'll go the subscription-based model direction.

[abecx]

my only worry is that they are trying to migrate to a subscription based cloud service and authentication

SaaS is pretty much the way of the future for big business.

[John -- '02 HAWK]

I'm not even sure you know what you mean when you said cloud in that context. I doubt they'll go the subscription-based model direction.

have you looked at what MS is doing with office 365, Adobe with its creative cloud, or Autodesk's cloud based subscription service? There are 'on demand' features, suites, services and "apps" that are behind paywalls on their clouds.

While you may doubt that MS goes to a subscription service, there are plenty of articles that speculating on it's appearance

http://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-much-would-a-windows-10-subscription-cost/

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/195592-with-windows-10-microsoft-could-move-to-a-subscription-based-model

[Denny]

Anyone try open office?

[abecx]

I use Open Office for all my stuff

[Ratt]

have you looked at what MS is doing with office 365, Adobe with its creative cloud, or Autodesk's cloud based subscription service? There are 'on demand' features, suites, services and "apps" that are behind paywalls on their clouds.

While you may doubt that MS goes to a subscription service, there are plenty of articles that speculating on it's appearance

http://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-much-would-a-windows-10-subscription-cost/

http://www.extremetech.com/computing...on-based-model

Right. I know what you're saying, but "subscription-based" and "cloud" are not synonymous. A cloud-hosted OS would be extremely costly and ridiculously resource-intensive - almost infeasible - to do on that scale. I could see them going to a subscription model, because that's where everything is heading, now, but I don't think people will buy it unless it's substantially cheaper than it was too go out and buy a Windows 7 or 8 disc or digital download.