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Nope. I worked in this industry for a long time (still do) and we had to report to Microsoft every month how many copies we sold and pay them for it.

Then towards the end of the Ballmer days it was decided that program would be ended entirely and it would be illegal to ever redistribute WinPE, and that is still the case today.

Maybe I’ll write about the crazy stories I have from when that decision was made someday. Two weeks to port a WinPE application to Linux, getting approached by ISVs worldwide who had the rug pulled out from under them for some sort of transition help.. fun times!




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