Microsoft’s forced Windows login requirement and some lessons from internet piracy
Stuff | 25.02.2026 15:37
Microsoft Windows used to be one of the most versatile operating systems on the planet. If you were creative or just obstinate, you could make Bill Gates’ OS do all sorts of things it was never designed to do. That’s still possible, of course, because the bones of the system are the same. But Microsoft really, really doesn’t want you to do that.