Kek, I don't know a single person whose Win 10 is genuine without a shade of doubt. That is, I don't think a single person I know has a genuine Win 10. None of them seem to suffer from ads and whatnot.
Of course, it seems to me, that on some machines for some bizarre reason anything other than Win 7 causes horrendous problems. I couldn't for the life of me make my mother's HP probook work with windows 8, 8.1 or 10. Boot times would exceed 5 minutes followed by another 5 minutes or so of almost total, 100% disk usage for no reason, unresponsiveness. Even when performing a 100% clean install it wouldn't work. In the end I just installed windows 7. Now the laptop runs as a swiss watch.