Microsoft never gave a shit about private piracy barring some noteable examples from countries with very strict anti-piracy laws like germany. The tactic has always been to get everyonem on windows and then make the big bucks seeling the OS to enterprises, because everybody wants to use windows, since they're at least halfway competent at that

Now, it's my opinion that people, en masse, can't use computers to save their fucking lives anyways and whether they're too stupid to utilize windows or too stupid to utilize Linux doesn't make much of a difference, but boy do the people get angry when anyone suggests switching off windows