The launch of Windows 10 was a turning point in the way Microsoft's main operating system was marketed. So far we were used to each new version of their operating system had a cost, something that changed with the arrival of Windows 10, becoming the first operating system that Redmond offered for free to all users who had a legal version of Windows 7 or Windows 8.x installed.
It has always been said that it seems that Microsoft has never cared much about the number of computers that have an illegal version of Windows installed, regardless of the version, but nothing could be further from the truth. The latest news from the United States is that the company is trying to identify about 1.000 activations that have been done with licenses stolen from distributors.
Apparently Microsoft has filed a complaint against the IP of the pirates who had obtained the licenses fraudulently in the Seattle court. How could you do it? Simply through the IP from which all these licenses have been activated. The hackers were reportedly in the business of obtaining license numbers from various supply chains, licenses that had already been sold on the equipment sold by these stores.
Taking into account that Microsoft had a list with all the registration numbers of all the versions that had been stolen, the identification of the IP has not been so difficult, since lto computer-related forensic technology allow to identify the numbers used in activations but also allows you to establish strange activation patterns, such as activating more than a thousand licenses from a single IP.
What is clear is that the company does not one by one he will find out which user has a pirated license on his computer, since it would be practically impossible to know, without having access to the computer, who was the user who installed and activated the Windows 7 or Windows 8.x license for the first time.