He sold a money-losing business with massive untapped potential to be a psyop to someone with infinite money and a desire for a psyop.

Fucking great deal for both of them. Fucked in the ass for the rest of us.

Pay for it all over again every 365 days, because now everything is a subscription and you’re not allowed to own even a permanent license to your software, let alone the software itself.

I would note that every single time I’ve tried to reactivate windows after a mobo or CPU upgrade, it has failed.

I guess it’s supposed to work better if you sign into your Microsoft account ever, which I don’t, because I see literally no reason they would need me to expect to advance spyware and adware.

The phone activation is the only thing that has worked. Good thing I’ve been dual booting a Ubuntu fork for the past six months. I guess after my next hardware upgrade I’ll be Linux only.