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> do yourself a favor and use LSTC

Would be nice if you could mention how your typical reader could feasibly (and legally) do this.

Microsoft licensing is such a byzantine hellscape that this assuredly is more complicated than can be easily summarized, but pretty much any of their resellers do have VL upgrade options. I don't normally like linking to vendors as it's not my job to drive them sales, but one of the top links off DDG:

https://softwaremedia.com/shop/microsoft-windows-10-enterpri...

Many people will find themselves happily hoisting a jolly roger with a KMS emulator (several on github) given that they very likely already paid for a retail license of Windows and LTSC is basically just Windows 10 minus all the horrible annoying shit.

I don't doubt it's bad but it could be worse, you could be trying to use Oracle software.

"not as awful as Oracle" is hardly an endorsement :)

Or you can buy a $10 key from Amazon, and not worry about KMS stopping working. I have no idea where those keys come from, but they work.

https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2167558-explicit-inst...

If you want to be 100% legit.

Interesting, am I reading it right that this ...

“ 4x Microsoft Identity Manager - 1 User CAL - Open Business (NK7-00031)”

... means to get a valid single-user LTSC license you need four Identity Manager licenses? That’s odd

I think the gimmick is they'll only sell it in a package of a total of 5 licenses of some sort total, so this is probably the cheapest other thing you can buy to get to that count.

Ahhhh good thinking, thanks!

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