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    [–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

    OK I'm a little shocked here, how does this work? Back in the day when licenses were harder to come by, we used to use cracks / activators that would patch some binary or exploit some bug to activate. Is this .. an open source version of that?

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

    Then it'll probably shock you even more when you realise that this thing is hosted on Github, a site owned by Microsoft... :)

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

    I believe it works by obtaining a real licence from Microsoft servers. Since MS wants to get everybody to move from 7 to 10/11 the only thing required to upgrade a win 7 install to 10 or 11 is an installation ID. And you can reuse the same installation ID infinitely.

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

    MS just doesn't care anymore, because they make their money mostly with cloud and data now.

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

    I’m not sure exactly how it works. I haven’t used it in a while now. It has several different options to activate, including hardware id or setting up a local KMS server. I only ever had to use it one time, per windows install, and it would keep windows activated. It also has a tool to switch windows versions, i.e. home to pro. It is fully open source and their wiki goes into more detail. https://massgrave.dev/