Microsoft: Windows 10 pirates will face nagware - Users of uncertified versions who try to upgrade to the new operating system will face a series of restrictions and warnings
In early 2015, Microsoft announced that during the first year of Windows 10's release, the upgrade would be available for free for all devices running Windows 8.1 as well as computers running Windows 7.
In those announcements, the company had hinted that even owners of pirated versions of Windows would be able to upgrade. However, according to a recent blog post by Terry Myerson, Microsoft's vice president of operating systems, things won't be that simple.
Myerson clarified that users of pirated versions of Windows who upgrade will be faced with so-called “nagware,” a practice that involves the constant display of messages urging purchase and legal installation, as well as the display of screenshots.
Source: protothema.gr
