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Nov 19, 2025 · Fundamentals

Why Microsoft Tolerates Windows Piracy: The Hidden Strategy Behind KMS38 Removal

The article explains how Microsoft deliberately allows widespread Windows piracy to maintain market dominance, detailing the role of KMS activation, the recent KMS38 deprecation in Windows 11, and why this “soft‑kill, hard‑gain” approach benefits the company in the long run.