I have to ask, why buy a key for the VM at all? Windows functions perfectly fine without one, and you can always use MAS if you want to change your wallpaper or something.
Entropy reduction. I do a lot of development work and need Visual Studio to work. It’s a complex beast already, and I don’t need to deal with the headache of fighting some activation hack or running the risk that some DLL or feature is gimped and causes weird behavior in an inactivated state.
I have to ask, why buy a key for the VM at all? Windows functions perfectly fine without one, and you can always use MAS if you want to change your wallpaper or something.
Entropy reduction. I do a lot of development work and need Visual Studio to work. It’s a complex beast already, and I don’t need to deal with the headache of fighting some activation hack or running the risk that some DLL or feature is gimped and causes weird behavior in an inactivated state.
FYI there’s scripts that will fully activate windows, not via any local modifications to the OS, but via the official Microsoft activation servers.