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1. ILLEGAL MICROSOFT WINDOWS LICENSE DETECTED VIRUS INSTALL
2. ILLEGAL MICROSOFT WINDOWS LICENSE DETECTED VIRUS SOFTWARE

“If you are building a system for your personal use or installing an additional operating system in a virtual machine, you will need to purchase Windows 8 software or a Microsoft retail version of Windows 8.1 software. This is spelled out very clearly on Microsoft’s “ Windows system builder licensing for personal use” page: You may have purchased a System Builder copy of Windows 8.1 after hearing this problem was solved in Windows 8, but sorry! You’re using a non-genuine copy of Windows in Microsoft’s eyes. The personal use allowance was removed from the Windows 8.1 System Builder license. Windows 8.1 is considered a completely new operating system, and it has a new license agreement. Windows 8’s license changes were widely reported on at the time. “With the Personal Use License, end users can buy an OEM System Builder License and use it on a machine they self-build, or as an operating system installed on its own partition in a dual-boot configuration, or in a virtual machine.” Really, they were just undoing a ridiculous licensing change they made for Windows 7.Īs Microsoft’s Windows 8 licensing guide puts it: This was good, because people were doing this anyway.

ILLEGAL MICROSOFT WINDOWS LICENSE DETECTED VIRUS INSTALL

This means that you could purchase a Windows 8 System Builder license and install it on a new PC you were building. To fix it, they added a “Personal Use License” allowance to the Windows 8 System Builder license. But Microsoft did licensing right with Windows 8 - they saw that the Windows 7 OEM System Builder licensing situation was crazy. Microsoft knows exactly how it got to that #1 position - because normal computer users bought it. Just look at the screenshot below - the Windows 7 Home Premium System Builder edition, which is “intended for pre-installation on a new PC for resale,” is the #1 best selling operating system product on. Read “ Is it OK to use OEM Windows on your own PC? Don’t ask Microsoft” for more background. This problem was chronicled excellently by Ed Bott over at ZDNet in 2009. Normal people were no longer allowed to use it to build their own PCs, but Microsoft continued selling them like hotcakes to those same people. With Windows 7, Microsoft changed the popular System Builder/OEM license of Windows. In fact, there are legitimate drawbacks to this cheaper license - no support direct from Microsoft and the copy of Windows being tied to a single PC, for example.

Prior to Windows 7, purchasing an OEM System Builder license for your own PC was perfectly fine.