Is it safe to use Net-Banking on pirated Windows?

Never tried Linux, heard Dota doesn’t works properly on Linux either.

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boxed product, with media?
or _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

even the MS support teams themselves give wavering response to that question, but 😉eventually slip in the😉 “you can head over to ”https://www.microsoft.com/en-GB/software-downlo...“>https://www.microsoft.com/en-GB/software-download/win...10 and try sir/madam” line.

thus it is anybody’s guess, as to how definitive the deadline to upgrade was (for people not using special access tools. the visually impaired or others officially had much longer window).

P.S.: the M.S. Windows support may not give the exact link as above, nor am i hinting for one to rely solely on it.
their standard verbiage is to head over to “so and so” Win10 download site ↹ download the executable ↹ have the “Media creation tool” executed “run” (if the PC which needs to be upgraded is available).
and ↹thereafter follow the instructions and wait an hour or so for it to download, install. (depends on hardware, magnetic drives are obviously more likely to be slower than SSDs).

for those who are in need of or ready to go into doing things manually, can ⇥download the entire ISO file⇤ upfront.

in your case, in case of Win7, third party utilities might be needed for one to ⇥’mount’ the ISO file⇤ and have a ‘virtual drive’ going …. from where the upgrade process of Win7 to Win10 will proceed.

not that it needs to be mentioned that nobody but you are liable for what happens and that the responsibility to have prior back-ups (to roll back, to revert the system to original state) rests with you and you alone (and not with MS or any other site, forum, person).

M.S. official site does help out with verification steps to check whether the downloaded ISO file has not been corrupted, tampered with or altered from the original.
For example, even here https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/evalcenter/evaluate-windows-10-enterprise or elsewhere,
they have some section about “Verify your download” wherein the checksums or the known good (SHA256) value is mentioned.
So, the “English International 64-bit” version downloaded file should have the hash value ↪BD9E41BDF9E23DCF5A0592F3BFE794584C80F1415727ED234E8929F656221836↩ as the SHA-256 value.

Some other ISO (changed language or 32 bit versus 64 bit) might have different value.
If the ISO you found (online) or directly downloaded from MS sites has the same value, then it means that the file is original, not tampered or altered with).


on how to get to know of or extract the checksums, you can refer to https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.utility/get-filehash?view=powershell-7 to learn more about using the get-filehash command.
Alternatively you may want to explore KnowledgeBase article# 841290 (KB841290) http://support.microsoft.com/kb/841290 [this link redirects now, dince it has been a while since they kind off depreciated the Knowledge Base repository].
☡Warning☡ The Microsoft File Checksum Integrity Verifier (FCIV) utility is an unsupported command-line utility that computes MD5 or SHA1 cryptographic hashes for files. Microsoft does not provide support for this utility. Use this utility at your own risk. Microsoft Product Support Services (PSS) cannot answer questions about the File Checksum Integrity Verifier utility.

why not using paid one ??