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How about Microsoft pirating Windows for you?
It's not really a crack, it's the corporate activation script. But yeah, MS don't care about sales anymore, they're all about stealing your data.
The information the OS collects is not worth more than keeping you in the ecosystem itself. That's the more lucrative reasoning. Can't easily sell other products if they're not in Windows. The information collection is just gravy.
They just want everyone to have Windows at home, so that it keeps being the "normal" OS for corporations. They make so much money... Windows+ CALs, Office, Exchange, Sharepoint, M365, Azure... it's easier to keep paying them, than to change vendors.