On Fri, Jun 09, 2017 at 04:24:20PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > i wrote: > > > Are there any [MS-Windows] images available for free and legally safe > > Joe wrote: > > Oddly enough, there are: > > https://www.microsoft.com/en-GB/evalcenter/evaluate-windows-10-enterprise > > The registration gives me creeps. I came up to the question whether > i want to use a Microsoft or LinkedIn account. The Microsoft account > creation asks me ifor info which i'd rather not want to give. > > The description speaks of "Windows 10 Enterprise, version 1703 | 64-bit ISO" > which lets me expect that one really would get a ISO 9660 filesystem image. > > I cannot find a legal statement whether it is permissible to give the > ISO image to others. So i have to assume that there is no such permission. > All in all i am not yet curious enough to start a legal relation with > Microsoft Inc.
Microsoft requires you to pay for their software. They do not enforce this in the software itself, however. I would consider it ethical to use their software once to determine compatibility, after which you should pay for a license or delete it. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10ISO/ is where one downloads ISOs. There is no account creation or registration required. The installation process will ask you to agree to their EULA; if you do not, the install halts. It will also ask for a license key, but you do not have to fill that in immediately. -dsr-
