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Now that we have established that Microsoft information wants to be free, my next project is wget.ai:

wget.ai is a sophisticated real time LLM that trains itself while downloading "content". Like any LLM, it predicts the next output token (byte in this case) based on the statistical training. wget.ai is run at temperature zero. In this revolutionary setting it has arrived at the conclusion that the most likely output byte equals the input byte!

Armed with this theorem, wget.ai can transform and replicate a Windows 11 download in real time. No copying is involved, the advanced algorithms happen to arrive at input == output.

Users of Windows 11 can download activation keys (freeware) from the Internet.

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> Armed with this theorem, wget.ai can transform and replicate a Windows 11 download in real time.

That’s a far bigger crime than IP infringement.

To legally run Windows you need a licence, not an activation key.

The instalation can already be downloaded for free.

But you're not running Microsoft's Windows. You're running the output of an AI! And as everybody knows, there is no copyright on the output of an AI.

The (real-time) training of the AI was also completely legal, as an AI may train on anything found on the web, as that's freeware anyway.

The AI never stored or stores any copyrighted material. It just learns from it. Now in revolutionary real-time!

So how could wget.ai, or anything produced by it, be considered illegal? Using data found on the web to train AI models is fair use after all!

Is anyone paying for Windows 11 in 2024?

If you buy a new laptop with Windows on it, you are [indirectly] paying for Windows.

Business/site licenses, probably.

Is anyone able to _not_ pay for Windows 11 in 2024? It's called the "Microsoft Tax" for a reason.

Yes, laptops without a windows license are pretty popular in at least some poorer countries. Most buyers install windows anyway and activate it via massgrave and friends, which lets you save 40 to 100 USD, which is a pretty big deal.

Lenovo offers its laptops (at the least the customisable models) with your choice of No OS, Windows Home, or Windows Pro.

GNU/Linux, ChromeOS (Google GNU/Linux), Android (Google Linux), MacOS, iOS (and iPadOS is a different thing, right?) Are almost certainly collectively more popular than Windows. Even as a primary / exclusive computer. I think a lot of people are able to not pay for Windows 11 in $CURRENT_YEAR, probably most.

Each Windows version has regressed from Windows 7 onwards. To the point that Windows 11 can almost be construed as malware. I'll be using Ubuntu henceforth.

Actually XP was probably the peak of Windows IMHO

Can generally confirm, the only Windows I regularly use is Virtualized XP for some old music making programs I like.

I guess if you want 64bit support windows 7 is generally better supported than 64bit XP

Windows "Teletubby Edition"? :-) No, Win2k was "peak Windows", imho.

Frankly MS later ditched the quite ambitious Windows NT 5.0 project, which was the planed Win2k successor, for a Frankenstein monster made out of the super buggy WinME and Win2k. That became Windows XP.

Coming from Win98, Win98SE, WinMe, WinXP was for sure quite good. But compared to the super stable, fast, and well structured Win2k it was quite a disappointment. It didn't have almost any of the advanced features planed for WinNT 5, it was much more unstable and buggy than Win2k, it was quite chaotic with "old Win95" parts, stuff coming from Win2k, and some things on it own placed randomly.

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