2026-08-10T22:33:48.412547Z

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

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Windows 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.

2026-08-11T00:07:49.113111Z

𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@01189998819991197253@infosec.pub

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Replying to @⁨mereo@piefed.ca⁩

Look. It’s simple. You’re paying for Copilot, whatever you want to or not.

⁨Aug⁩ ⁨11⁩, ⁨2026⁩, ⁨00:07⁩en

2026-08-11T00:23:34.511479Z

Scrubbles@scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech

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Replying to @⁨01189998819991197253@infosec.pub⁩

That LLM response from the search bar when you were just searching for a file? That’s not free, we have to pay for that! If you didn’t want it you shouldn’t have accidentally triggered it by needing to search for a file. That’s on you.