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Any way to legally obtain win2k iso now? I lost my discs from that era and would like to run it in a VM.

WinWorld has been freely distributing copies of Windows 2000 for years now without issue.[0] Someone even tried reporting them to Microsoft and nothing happened,[1] even though WinWorld says they honor takedown requests.[2] It seems Microsoft really doesn't care as long as you stick to stuff older than XP.

[0]https://winworldpc.com/product/windows-nt-2000/final

[1]https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/winwor...

[2]https://forum.winworldpc.com/discussion/6236/is-this-site-il...

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