One has to wonder sometimes whether the right hand knows what the left is doing at Microsoft. With their recent announcement that all Windows 7 and 8 users, whether genuine or not, would be eligible for a free upgrade to Windows 10 during the first year, one could be mistaken for imagining that they had cleared the decks and declared an amnesty for those who had acquired Windows through more nefarious means.
Not so. Whilst not an actual u-turn and more a legalese intervention, their latest statement appears to be more of a clarification of their previous free upgrade statement, but achieves nothing more than to disturb the calm waters they had just sailed us all into. Users of genuine copies of Windows were already throwing their toys overboard, asking why they should have to subsidise those good-for-nothing scabby pirates who had robbed them blind and were now being let off the hook scot free.
