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Re: 24H2

From	Paul <nospam@needed.invalid>
Newsgroups	alt.comp.os.windows-11, comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject	Re: 24H2
Date	2025-02-24 18:58 -0500
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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On Mon, 2/24/2025 5:30 PM, candycanearter07 wrote:
> rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote at 04:35 this Sunday (GMT):
>> On Sat, 22 Feb 2025 14:48:07 -0500, Joel wrote:
>>
>>> Admittedly, though, they didn't lie about 10 being the last real version
>>> ever.  Because a (previously upgraded) 7 key will install 11 on cutting
>>> edge hardware or a VM.
>>
>> When I was on the Insiders channel they pushed out a 'Windows Next' 
>> update. It wouldn't install and they quickly reverted it. That was over a 
>> year ago and I haven't heard any more about a 'next' or 12. 
>>
>> I think they're too busy chasing the AI unicorn through the fields of 
>> clover at the moment. 
> 
> 
> I honestly wouldn't be too suprised if MS started making Windows itself
> a subsciption that got continuously updated.
> 

Back in 2015, WaaS was posited as the endpoint for the ecosystem.

It is now 2025, and we're still floating that balloon ?

How long does it take to do frog boiling (a critter that does
not escape a boiling pot if the temperature is raised gradually,
instead it croaks rather than hop out) ? Let's find out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog

Maybe they've figured out that the pot would be empty if they did that.
Although it's true that some people will pay for almost anything
shoved through their letterbox.

*******

And you don't install just any old key on a VM. Microsoft Tech Support
do not support maintenance issues for VM-linked keys. There is a
specific product you're supposed to be buying, if wishing to
license the OS while it runs in a VM. You can't just take the
license key off the back of a cereal box and enter that -- the
reason is, if the key is "lost", the Tech Support person
will give their rendition of "tough Beanz". They won't do a
thing for you. With the correct key (no idea what Enterprise
product that would be), then you will get a better response from
them. Someone here lost a key in a VM already, and they recount the
response they got when trying to restore it. It's sufficient to
modify some identifier used in the VM to upset the activation
of the key -- making a VM "more brittle" than bricks&mortar
real computers with their NIC MAC address and other hardware
details.

An example of a key, would be a "Retail SKU" where the price is
double the normal OEM key, but you get the right to "move" the
license from one machine to another. Such a key could be put
on a VM where the identifier got modified by accident or
abuse. The key when re-applied to the VM, would
"look like it was being moved". Whereas the more normal OEM
keys floating around, are unlikely to have that property (can't
be moved).

   Paul

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24H2 Ammammata <ammammata@tiscali.it> - 2025-02-06 12:15 +0100
  Re: 24H2 Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-02-06 07:08 -0500
    Re: 24H2 Ammammata <ammammata@tiscali.it> - 2025-02-07 09:28 +0100
    Re: 24H2 Ammammata <ammammata@tiscali.it> - 2025-02-07 09:31 +0100
      Re: 24H2 Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-02-21 23:04 -0500
        Re: 24H2 candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2025-02-22 19:30 +0000
          Re: 24H2 Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-02-22 14:48 -0500
            Re: 24H2 rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-02-23 04:35 +0000
              Re: 24H2 chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2025-02-23 10:18 -0600
              Re: 24H2 candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2025-02-24 22:30 +0000
                Re: 24H2 Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-02-24 18:58 -0500
  Re: 24H2 Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-02-06 09:10 -0500
    Re: 24H2 ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ  <winstonmvp@gmail.com> - 2025-02-06 11:32 -0700
    Re: 24H2 Valerio Vanni <valerio.vanni@inwind.it> - 2025-02-06 22:22 +0100
      Re: 24H2 Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-02-06 17:17 -0500
        Re: 24H2 sticks <wolverine01@charter.net> - 2025-02-06 16:35 -0600
  Re: 24H2 Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> - 2025-02-06 09:25 -0800
  Re: 24H2 ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ  <winstonmvp@gmail.com> - 2025-02-06 11:08 -0700

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