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Amid RAM price hikes, Microsoft reportedly raises Windows license cost, forcing OEMs to hike prices even further on hardware
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sanitation lemmy.today sanitation@lemmy.today
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hoshikarakitaridia lemmy.world hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world
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Mhm Linux lookin so attractive rn

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Die4Ever retrolemmy.com Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com
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ok OEMs, you know what to do!

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Die4Ever retrolemmy.com Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com
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screenshot from the Dell website 😂

(they should be shipping 26.04 by now...)

EDIT: $100 of that difference comes from Win11 requiring an SSD upgrade from 512GB to 1TB

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unitedwithme lemmy.today unitedwithme@lemmy.today
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ok OEMs, you know what to do!

Lenovo does this too

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trem lemmy.blahaj.zone trem@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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I enjoy how the news isn't "Microsoft increases prices", no, the news is "Microsoft increases prices more than usual". And the article doesn't even try to explain why they increase prices every year.

Is it to compensate for inflation? Or just the yearly increase in greed?

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trem lemmy.blahaj.zone trem@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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screenshot from the Dell website 😂 (they should be shipping 26.04 by now...) EDIT: $100 of that difference comes from Win11 requiring an SSD upgrade from 512GB to 1TB

Man, I thought, the whole point of the more limited OEM license (can't move to another PC; can't easily reinstall on same PC) was that the OEMs would get it for cheaper than a proper license.

Now you're telling me, if someone gets their Windows license through an OEM, they have to pay $100+ extra for a worse product?

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Corporal_Punishment feddit.uk Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk
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I bought Windows 11 pro from a cd key reseller for like £5....

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warmaster lemmy.world warmaster@lemmy.world
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Microsoft's weekly reminder to switch to Linux.

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madmantis24 lemmy.wtf madmantis24@lemmy.wtf
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I enjoy how the news isn't "Microsoft increases prices", no, the news is "Microsoft increases prices more than usual". And the article doesn't even try to explain why they increase prices every year. Is it to compensate for inflation? Or just the yearly increase in greed?

As I understand it, the greed has outpaced inflation for some time now

Every crisis is another excuse to make it worse, too. Since at least Covid times

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