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[–] tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 33 points 16 hours ago

You're right, they don't care.

The very fact they no longer care about enforcing licensing anymore is itself the strongest evidence that selling Windows as a product is not where the money is.

They want you on their operating system for any price - including zero -because once you are there that's when the advertising, cloud service upsell and data monetisisation can begin.