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Re:WordPad Is Gettings Ads in Windows 10 by blibble on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @08:03PM (#22113531)
the keys seem to be about $2

you could get scammed or have your key deactivated a hundred times and still be ahead

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Re:WordPad Is Gettings Ads in Windows 10 by justinclift on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @11:00AM (#22118621)
That's assuming there aren't backdoors in the software. Not a safe bet to make.

At least, not without (at a minimum) having the SHA256 (or better) checksum of the ISO match that of the MSDN equivalent download.

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Re:WordPad Is Gettings Ads in Windows 10 by blibble on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @06:08PM (#22123065)
MS provide the digests on MSDN if you have a login

and there's plenty of dumps of them kicking around if you don't

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