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Mereo@mereo@piefed.ca

Amid RAM price hikes, Microsoft reportedly raises Windows license cost, forcing OEMs to hike prices even further on hardware

www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/amid-ram-price-hikes-microsoft-reportedly-raises-windows-license-cost-forcing-oems-to-hike-prices-even-further-on-hardware
Windows 11 Hero Surfaces on a white tableWindows CentralWindows 11 license fee hikes contributing to higher laptop prices, says reportA new report claims Microsoft has raised the cost of the Windows license by up to 10% for certain OEMs, which is much higher than usual.
theparadox@theparadox@lemmy.world
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Replying to @⁨mereo@piefed.ca⁩

Queue the new subscription cloud version of Windows that force-feeds you whatever the fuck Microslop has a hard on for this week. Advertisements in your start menu, open video stream everything you are doing, slop token credits if you answers surveys about what you are doing so CoPilot can train off of your screen recordings, un-uninstallable CoPilot/OneDrive of course, free license for Microslop to use anything OneDrive ingests (everything it manages to discover) without limitation…

theparadox@theparadox@lemmy.world

Replying to @⁨OwOarchist@pawb.social⁩

I’m in the closed beta. Its great! I pay extra for the premium tier - I only have to subject myself to free use by any random shareholder visiting my town on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The base-tier peasants have to give up their whole weekends to shareholders like fuckin losers lol.

Edited ⁨⁨Aug⁩ ⁨11⁩, ⁨2026⁩, ⁨02:59⁩⁩en