Kindness can win over enemies, and Microsoft apparently has so much faith in the aforesaid belief that it is offering a 50% discount to folks clinging to a pirated version of its Office suite. Microsoft has always had a love-hate relationship with piracy.
Until 1995, software like MS-DOS and Windows 2 had no copy protection, which means copying the OS files on floppy allowed installation on virtually a limitless number of machines. Serialization arrived with Windows 95, asking users to enter a
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