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Not for Home edition though.

You can still use a program like Sandboxie to try to sandbox an application.




A Pro license is 3 Euros though or even 'free' if you're unscrupulous. Should be no reason to stay on Home edition.


Where? MS sells it for 60x that where I live


There are various websites that resell MSDNAA keys for 2 Euros or so[1].

I got a Win11 Pro and Office 2021 Pro for dirt cheap there, the keys worked (after a phone activation IIRC), and haven't had any problems so far. Without access to such prices I would have switched to Linux and LibreOffice already as there's no way I can pay full retail prices for those.

Beware this is a legal gray area, I'm not affiliated, not endorsing this practice, and not responsible for your outcome. I assume Microsoft is aware of these practices but turns a blind eye as that just means more users into their ecosystem anyway, so why ruin the party.

[1]https://keyesd.com/collections/operating-systems/products/mi...


Yeah. Looks a bit dodgy. It's better than downloading a torrent (because who knows what's in that torrent?), but legally it may be about the same.


Not quite 3 €, but there are many OEM license resellers selling them for anywhere between 5-30 €, for example: https://www.mmoga.com/Software/Windows/Microsoft-Windows-10-...


Is that legal?




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