what prevents Microsoft from creating a version of windows that doesn’t allow cracks/activators to be used? Or detect it and disable the OS fully instead of warnings.

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what prevents Microsoft from creating a version of windows that doesn’t allow cracks/activators to be used? Or detect it and disable the OS fully instead of warnings.

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Complexity is one factor. Windows XP had 40 million lines of code. Windows 10 must have at least that many. That is a lot of potential places for an exploit to umm exploit something.

Design is another. Windows has evolved from a single-user, minimal security design into what it is today. It doesn’t have bad security per se but it can’t be as good as if the OS was designed from the ground-up with security in mind.

Identifying every running exploit isn’t easy either. It’s not like they are always a totally foreign thing in the system. They can make use of parts of the Windows code. And how would Windows know it’s own functions are being called by an exploit when the design of Windows allows for the exploits to pretend they’re part of Windows itself.

To answer the question, Microsoft could conceivably redesign Windows so that it vastly reduces the potential for exploits. But it would be such a mammoth task. It would take millions of man-hours. And during that time MS’s competitors would have a good opportunity to catch up or overtake MS in some core areas.

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