27 daysI assumed this was common knowledge since like NT 4, but at least the knowledge is spreading
- 27 days
They’ve had kb articles for how to look it up since win7, so i don’t get the meme
- realitaetsverlust@piefed.zipEnglish27 days
It has gotten big publicity because microslop apparently helped the glowies to track down a criminal and they did that by tracking his movements through this device id, which made people aware of that.
Everyone with a functioning brain knew that microslop was doing this one way or the other for years, but having a case backed with facts probably made them more aware that this was still a thing.
- village604@adultswim.fanEnglish27 days
You vastly underestimate how aware the average person is about Microsoft and their shittiness.
- 27 days
I thought the same. I was confused when articles and posts about it started popping up. It’s been around for a Very Long Time.
If know that gdid exist did also know that they track internet usage with it?
- 27 days
Right, I’m not really sure how their product keys would work, without a “product lock”, for the key to fit into. That’s probably not a great metaphor, point being, of course they would always have needed and used something like this to lock your OS to your device using the product key, right?
- bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish27 days
This is a great video from one of the devs about the window product activation and how much they thought about how they’d determine how many changes to a system was a new device. Idk how windows works now, but it was fairly common back in the day to upgrade often, and you didn’t need a new Microsoft license most of the time when doing so.
- 26 days
Yeah Windows Activation has probably has more programming time burned on it over the decades than all of NASA lol
