This is the high-tech series of summer. The upgrade to Windows 10 for all owners of Windows 7 or 8.1 piratées- -even though it is free? While rumors suggested that yes in March, Microsoft had insisted that the pirates would get as versions non-genuine (non-genuine) and therefore unsupported (without support).
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Translation: users who have cracked Windows 7 or 8.1 can spend free Windows 10, but they do not have access to updates update software, including Windows Update. To get them, “it will buy genuine license,” said Microsoft. One way to offer a freemium version of Windows 10 to hackers.
Hackers take advantage of updates
A statement that the smart kids who have a pirated version of Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 were checked at launch Windows 10, 29 July. As expected, they switched to Windows 10 for free, but, surprisingly, they were also able to use without paying, Windows Update. Posted on Reddit two forums (for Windows 7 and for Windows 8.1), the information -that L’Express vérifiée- spread like wildfire.
A Windows version 10 pro active, obtained by a hacker with a cracked version of Windows 7 or Windows 8.1.
“For Windows 10, I simply used the application ‘download Windows 10′ (present in the bar of tasks and Windows 7 8.1, Ed), I did not use crack and I was able to download the updates as users authenticated versions, “said one hacker, L’Express has encountered.” I even received a new Key Windows 10, which will allow me to make a new clean install, “he added.
On Reddit, other pirates explain downloading free Windows 10, but do not have access to updates. In fact, it seems that all versions “proper” cracked Windows 7 and 8.1 -it ie recognized as “authentic” and therefore activated by microsoft can pass through the Windows security system 10. “If your pirated version was genuine on Windows 7 / 8.1, it will be even Windows 10. Logic” concludes the pirate.
Microsoft meets next
A major security flaw that should not appeal to Microsoft? Contacted by Venturebeat, the US multinational has kicked into touch, preferring to remember that “genuine Windows versions are the best” and that “according to experts, hackers use software-including non-Windows versions authentiques- implies a higher risk of hacks and banking data fraud, increased exposure of your private data and poorer performance software. ”
This obviously does not answer the question because hackers claim to have obtained precisely these famous authentic versions. Whether intended or not, Microsoft seems in any case a good start to migrate all users for free to its new Windows 10 …
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