Microsoft is preparing a new offer to the pirates for the legalization of Windows 10
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Users who switched to Windows 10 with counterfeit copies of Windows 7 or 8.1, will soon be able to easily obtain a legal copy of the operating system, said recently the Director of the Windows division at Microsoft, Terry Myerson.
He justifies this step by the fact that many users of pirated versions of Windows 7 or 8.1 after updating to a new version of the operating system took advantage of the opportunity to obtain a licensed copy of Windows 10 via the in-app store. As a result, the company decided to simplify the process, reports .
Based on past experience, soon the US will run an experiment that may be extended to other countries after evaluation of the results.
“We will offer the possibility of migration only one mouse click to the Windows Store or by entering activation key”. In his blog, the company also released images depicting the upcoming opportunity to purchase a legal copy, and it is integrated directly in the Windows control panel.
The Company intends to deliver the update so computers as possible, but to achieve the legalization of illegally acquired copies via the upgrade will still be impossible.
The Transition to Windows 10 free for users of the two previous versions of the operating system. The question of whether this proposal is valid for pirated copies first came in the winter. The occasion was the statement Myerson during his business trip to China. During the conference WinHEC in Shenzhen, he said: “We update any skilled PC, regardless of whether they pass authentication control to Windows 10 or not”.
This step proved to be an unprecedented attempt by Microsoft to integrate legal copy of its software in the hundreds of millions of computers in Asian country. Recent studies show that three quarters of all software on personal computers in China is not licensed.
The Statement Myerson was interpreted so that all users of pirated copies will get the right to get a legal copy of Windows 10. Later, however, the company clarified that this right “pirates” will not get.
The New offer by Microsoft for users of unauthorized copies may be due to the fact that the distribution of Windows 10 has slowed down. According to Net Applications, in September the market share of Windows 10 made up 6.63%. Compared to achievement in the past month, the share increased by only 1.42%. In August, the first month after the launch of the “tens” the share of the operating system showed an increase to 4.8%.
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