i think my school might have pirated windows 7

[Kimon²]

i mean i'm thinking maybe it's something else but here's the story:

my school bought all new laptops and computers, but not for the whole school because they're cheap, so most people still have windows 2000. yeah, that's right we've been using windows 2000 for years. they had windows 7 on them, but a lot of small details were unusual to the normal windows 7, and there was something about windows not being activated when i logged in. so that was pretty sketchy, but the part that's really suspicious is the fact that in the lower right-hand corner it says:

"This copy of Windows is not genuine"

this was on all the computers so i'm thinking maybe they bought one copy and tried to put it on all the computers, or something. i'm not really sure how it works.

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[Pie Crust]

bought one copy and tried to put it on all the computers

This. Windows is too expensive for the ammount of computers a school has unless the school has a contract with Microsoft. your Windows key will only work for 5 machines. More than that and it will invalidate.

[$trinick]

Usually schools get an educatory discount on software. But it's still entirely possible your school just installed 1 copy on all the computers.

[Kimon²]

Usually schools get an educatory discount on software. But it's still entirely possible your school just installed 1 copy on all the computers.

yeah that's probably what happened. that's kinda weird though but like i said they're pretty cheap.

[Tokerovin]

its better if we dont talk about this.

really.

just let it go.

[Pie Crust]

Besides, you won't have a police raid because your school didn't cough up $120 for Windows 7.

[Kimon²]

yeah im not saying i wanna get them in trouble i just thought it was kinda funny

[ultimamax]

This happened to a school laptop I was using. It turned out that it was genuine, I just needed to verify it by connecting to the internet. It could have been that.

[Georges]

its better if we dont talk about this.

really.

just let it go.

Let it go, let it go...

[Hammereditor5]

i'm not really sure how it works.

I think you extract the .iso file and modify a configuration file, so that you do not have to enter the product key during setup. But you have to enter it later.

[lolz??]

Let it go, let it go...

[Headcrab Zombie]

I really doubt they pirated it. Schools get at least a discount, I myself, as just a student, can get it entirely free.

I can't comment on these "small details that were unusual" because it's lacking detail

There are some things (I really don't know what, perhaps odd configuration settings, registry entries, or maybe even malware, all I know is it's out there) that can make a windows installation report as not genuine. I've had it happen to me on a completely legit install

[TomTheGeek²]

they don't really get a discount, they get a volume licensing version of windows.

what KVM is regular windows (so enterprise) but without the online crap. the administrator has a local machine running a server that is activated with microsoft, and the server dumps keys to the networked computers.

now if the IT department didn't actually use a KVM copy, then how the forget do they even have a job.

[dudeman162]

u shuld tell on them

[Candy Apple]

This. Windows is too expensive for the ammount of computers a school has unless the school has a contract with Microsoft. your Windows key will only work for 5 machines. More than that and it will invalidate.

It's not really, because schools don't get the same price that we as consumers do.