

With free upgrades of Windows 10 Microsoft seems to be updating a licensed version of Windows in the devices and in a way making its users realize the value of proper license. With this announcement of free upgrade, Windows seems to have finally decided to ignore the pirates because it has been seen that some new machines also have the pirated version of Windows and the users are not ever aware that they are using an illegal copy of the Operating System. However, pirates started sharing some corporate license keys and since then the pirates have somehow been causing trouble to Microsoft throughout its various versions though Microsoft has been continuously trying to curb the software pirates.

Back in 2001 Windows XP was the first system which had introduced the software activation key and the need for a proper license to activate the Operating system on any device.
