That was one of the stated reason for them cancelling the software portion of the TechNet program was too much abuse which really sucked for home lab people like myself. They get abused/stolen and Microsoft has little choice but to start black listing keys. MSDN, TechNet, Educational, even straight volume license keys. Unfortunately this has been a long running issue with Microsoft licensing. So now I'm out $60 worth of keys, for buying what turned out to be fraudulently-sold, stolen software.Įdit: Addendum - for the record, I've never sold a rig with "cheap" keys, those were only for personal usage. Searching the error code, it indicated that MS had blocked the key(s), which led to several threads on MS's discussion site about MSDN keys being sold on auction sites, in violation of their agreement with MS. So I figured, I'd use one of my remaining keys to activate Windows.īOOM! INVALID KEY! Let's try the other one. I had re-built one of my (Skylake) rigs, with an i5-6400 quad-core, and hooked it up to my 4K monitor, and decided to use it as a personal system. Well, fast-forward a few months to today. I guess, I had assumed, that these key sellers were just buying out-of-region Windows Activation keys, cheap (because not every person in every country can afford $100 USD for an OS), and reselling them online. I used one on one of my G3258 rigs, soon after I had recieved my keys, and it activated, and said it was Genuine.
I think I paid around $20 ea for my Win10 Home keys. Well, there are numerous vendors, selling "GENUINE" keys for MS OS software products. Bonanza is kind of like an ebay site, but even less well-regulated, if you can imagine that. I got turned on to buying Windows product keys from, from another user's post here that had reported a positive results. Well, I learned my lesson, and apologies to XavierMace.
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