Microsoft announced yesterday that the company will conduct an “experiment” which is to provide users with pirated versions of Windows 7 and 8.1 to free upgrade to a legal version of Windows 10 .
– We want as many users as possible is part of the Windows ecosystem legally writes Microsoft boss Terry Myerson in a blog post from yesterday.
The experiment will first to be implemented in the US shortly. After an evaluation will also users of other countries to upgrade their unlicensed PCs, writes Terry Myerson on.
It is unknown what percentage of all software is pirated all over the world, a report by the BSA (Business Software Alliance) in 2010, however, argued that about 40 percent of all applications running over the world lacks a license.
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