In November last year, we reported on the removal of an unofficial KMS-related Windows activation, something which the company was planning to do for a while. The method worked by helping to activate Windows without an internet connection.

  • FreedomAdvocate
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    18 hours ago

    Windows doesn’t need to be activated during the OS installation, so that’s not relevant.

    Also Windows doesn’t need to be activated at all for 99% of people’s uses of it.

    • HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org
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      32 minutes ago

      But it does do the force-a-Microsoft-account thing that doesn’t work without a network.