HWID activation for Windows 10/11 has been patched by Microsoft after 6 years

Time of death: 4:22 PM UTC September 26th

HWID, a popular Windows activation method, is no longer functioning for new requests. Existing HWID licenses are left unaffected. Only new requests are blocked, no licenses were revoked. This also kills free activation of Windows 7/8/8.1 to Windows 10/11

Microsoft suddenly blocked HWID activation requests, rendering it obsolete. Microsoft servers are rejecting Temporary Signed Licenses (TSL) sent by HWID activation.

MAS still works:
• MAS is the recommended choice for Windows/Office activation due to continuous improvements.
• Other activators rely on outdated methods.

Other Methods Still Work:
• All other activation methods are still functional except for HWID. KMS38 is recommended.

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This is what actually happened with BharOS

BharOS is developed by JandK Operations Private Limited (JandKops), which has been incubated by IIT Madras Pravartak Technologies Foundation, a Section 8 (Not for Profit) Company established by IIT Madras. The Foundation is funded by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India, under its National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems (NMICPS). Not a lot of information is available on JandKops or on it's website, however in this leak we can see that IIT Madras Pravartak is a client of Megam Solutions whose founder is Sadhasivasubramanian H (sadhasiva1984). We can assume that JandKops outsourced the OS to Megam Solutions unlike their claim of developing the OS which brings up several big questions:
What was the point of incubation and the startup?
Why outsource the job if the end result is a GrapheneOS fork?
How many similar startups are outsourcing or falsely claiming innovation?

IIT touts the OS as part of AatmaNirbhar Bharat campaign. However GrapheneOS has been around for several years now, and surely isn't part of the Govt of India.

"BharOS is an operating system based on a Linux kernel. We have used some early versions of Linux - it's basically a derivative of the Linux kernel", V Kamakoti, director of IIT Madras said.

However this completely doesn't make sense, as different android devices have different Linux kernel versions.
According to https://source.android.com/docs/core/architecture/kernel/android-common#compatibility-matrix

Different android versions launch with different supported and launch kernels. According to Kamakoti they used one old kernel version and based it on android 13 and launched BharOS and are going to do the same with every BharOS device. I'm pretty sure GrapheneOS cannot do this, since BharOS is a fork of it.

We can only guess and hope that such fake startup frauds don't end up like Theranos, as it would tarnish the already degrading image of IIT Madras.

ℹ️ Credits: @ThomasDada

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https://git.it-kuny.ch/BharOS/ or https://github.com/agam778 (some repos are missing in my account idk)

Here's a mirror since the repositories have been made private now

Also, https://github.com/sadhasiva1984

The account has been deleted.

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