Nope the article state

However, this new driver has also rolled out to Windows 10 and Windows 11 devices in the USA that do not have to comply with the DMA act, shedding doubt on this theory.

I have tried many times to use it and it didn’t work either on windows or on linux, indeed the one I have on github changed 2 times from the one you currently are commenting

The accounts.json you just commented doesn’t work anymore!

The vendor itself acknowledged the situation by saying that the virus problem was solved!

Now I need to know who the hell has installed Free Download Manager on Linux.

Streetcomplete to contribute to osm?

Thank you thank you

Illegal or not, most of the people out there never installed their os, because they buy a device with an os preinstalled and indirectly they buy the license for windows.

The article talk about google the search engine not the browser

I use Arch btw

If they make it easy for you doesn’t mean it’s legal.

It’s illegal to use windows without a license. As even stated in the license you agree before installing the os, this one, on section 5 Authorized Software and Activation.

You are authorized to use this software only if you are properly licensed and the software has been properly activated with a genuine product key or by other authorized method

Chaotic bad!

It’s illegal to do soo, not that much debatable.

Yes a formality that you pay every time you buy a pc with windows pleinstalled and it’s an asshole to refund.

Commenting on c/Piracy doesn’t exclude I pay for software, indeed I payed for 3 windows licenses two with the costs of my 2 laptop and one I payed my self in my custom built pc. (And I’m only counting windows 10 licenses because the count would be much higher if I counted windows xp,vista,7 and 8) and that was my only and one comment on every piracy related community.

Edit: the same people force you to have a windows license and a driving license, but one get checked more than the other that’s it.

IGG is bad because some of their repacks had their drm inside dll files, there were Ads built into the game at runtime, were found Cryptominers and startup malware included in their games and many other things.

Using windows without a license is illegal.

This is like saying you don’t need to have a driving license to drive a car because the car doesn’t complain about it.

You know that’s a fuck up situation when you need to hope that a government union will give a fuck about a tech giant throwing shit at their paying customers

But at least you don’t pay chrome, with windows instead you need to pay a license to use it.

That’s the problem

• they are making harder to change the default browser on windows, and broke workaround by chrome and firefox too.
• they don’t let you uninstall edge in easy way or without a third party software.
• if you download another browser from edge they try to persuade you in to giving edge a try.
• they are planning to set edge as the default browser on teams.
• they don’t give you an easy way to open with another browser the internet result from the windows search bar, they broke EdgeDeflector many times indeed.

And nobody is doing something about it!

Never metioned in the article, and it’s a “feature” only spread to a close number of people.