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Windows is free for anyone to use indefinitely... If you're OK with a persistent watermark.
Why even add a premium to the laptop? Let the user decide to use windows as-is, pay a license, or switch to Linux. 🤭
In practice. Technically, were M$ to go sue users left and right (or send those ISP-style "gotcha", now pay up) emails.
Luckiy, M$ knows well enough that 90% of that userbase wouldn't have too many qualms jumping ship if they got slapped with a huge fine, so M$ lets them be.
They value the high userbase more than a quick payout (and rightly so). However, there's no guarantee that can't change overnight (just look at Unity and before that, Adobe).