Quick Answer: Is It Legal to Use Windows Xp?
Contents but in All Seriousness, No, There Is No Windows Version You’ll Be Able to Use for Free in the Way You Might Imagine. the Lifecycle of Windows Xp Has...
But in all seriousness, no, there is no Windows version you’ll be able to use for free in the way you might imagine. The lifecycle of Windows XP has nothing to do with its legal status. The product will be protected by copyright long after Microsoft has dropped support.
Is it illegal to use Windows XP?
It is illegal to hold an unauthorized copy of Windows XP. Microsoft still hold the copyright, trademarks and any relevant patents and if they haven’t licensed it to you it doesn’t make it OK because they won’t license it to anyone!
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