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Microsoft kills official way to activate windows without internet (www.neowin.net)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Now when trying to activate the OS by attempting to call the phone number for Microsoft Product Activation, an automated voice response says the following: "Support for product activation has moved online.

Linux is this way, guys.

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[–] 6 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Good thing I am no longer on it. Going forward if I ever get a new laptop I am going to setup linux mint (or another distro) on it right away, thus activating it without it. Being connected to the internet in the first place.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Btw for anonymity it is critical. While it will never make it anonymous, they want you to connect to the internet for your activation so they can register your device and the ID you used to sign up for it.

    By bypassing all that they won't immediately know who owned it through whatever machine IDs computers have on them.

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    By bypassing all that they won’t immediately know who owned it through whatever machine IDs computers have on them.

    There's probably enough redundancy in such possibilities to track you not to care about this particular thing technically .

    It's just an insult to the user and they are assholes, dealing with assholes is a bad sign similar to black cats crossing your path. Don't deal with assholes.

    No need to explain this technically, you might think it's better, but you are implicitly supporting the idea that without hard proof it's fine that they are doing all those weird things. It's not, you don't have to prove anything. They are assholes, don't deal with them, don't keep taking insults. Simple.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    That's why I said 'they won't immediately know' I never said they will never know or never have that information. The way how the system works today is that the best thing that can be done is try to be noise in the system than anonymous.

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