Gentle reminder to everyone that support for #windows10 ends in about 90 weeks. Many computers can't upgrade to Win 11 so here are your options:

Continue on Win 10 but with higher security risks.
Buy new and expensive hardware that supports Win11.
Try a beginner friendly #Linux distro like #linuxmint. It only takes about two months to acclimate.

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@yianiris @ajayiyer @nixCraft @linux @windowscentralbot I bought a valid license key product of W11 of 0.14eur :ablobcatcoffee:
(And my w10 also have a valid license key bought for similar price)

It's an OEM license so once it's used, I can't reuse it on an another computer
But at this price I think it's Ok to buy a new one if the MB is dead 😅

But an another side, MB of a VM normally won't die 💪

I'm not sure what you mean by "since the vm doesn't provide the chip to embed the license"?
- sudo strings /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/MSDM
  
  So if you create a windows vm vb/qemu provide a virtual MSDM chip you can modify the value of?
  
  @grum999 @ajayiyer @nixCraft @linux @windowscentralbot
  
  @yianiris @ajayiyer @nixCraft @linux @windowscentralbot it seems not (cf. screenshot)
  
  What I use is a digital license: it seems the digital license is not stored in the hardware
  I suppose when it's activated, windows send information to a MS Server
  They store the information the digital license is used by this user/hardware
  
  If you try to reuse the digital license key, you'll be rejected during activation because it's already flagged as used on MS side
  
  Something like this I think 🙃
  
  If it was done online alone 1st it would have been cracked globally, then the machine/hw needs to be identified uniquely. How can this be done if you change disk and reinstall?
  
  The way they do this is a chip intel/amd_x86-64 boards provide called MSDM and a unique key is embeded to it.
  You plug a new disk, install, reboot is is already activated.
  
  @grum999 @ajayiyer @nixCraft @linux @windowscentralbot
  
  @yianiris @ajayiyer @nixCraft @linux @windowscentralbot I don't know. If they have a database were used keys are checked during activation process, it could be difficult to globally crack this... 🤷
  
  if you change hardware and want to reuse the same digital key, as the key has already been used, activation on MS side will just be rejected: you have to buy a new digital key
  
  digital keys don't work the same way than product keys (that are stored on hardware)
  
  Not all MS licenses are the same, some you can reuse 1 time, you just have to call up cus.support if the key was registered in your name.
  
  @grum999 @ajayiyer @nixCraft @linux @windowscentralbot

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