Comment on Ryzen CPU owners can now download better gaming performance thanks to a Windows 11 update

• 30p87@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Windows 11 Pro, doesn’t matter if it’s just the License or with USB, officially costs 259€. Which is ~289 USD.

  www.microsoft.com/de-de/d/windows-11-pro/…/000P

  And even for the US, it’s 200$.

  www.microsoft.com/en-us/d/windows-11-pro/…/000P

  This is just the official price. Of course, you’ll almost always get free Win 11 Home with new computers, or a Volume License for 10€ from ebay, or you just don’t activate it. But the official price by M$ is 259€/200$. Which kinda means they think it is worth that much, and it would be justified to charge germans almost 300 USD for “an advertisement delivery platform strapped to a program loader”.

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  • TheDarksteel94@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Holy shit, that’s wild lol. I’ve only been thinking about the Home version, which you can get around here for about 140 bucks at most 😅

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    • MrGabr@ttrpg.network ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      cough github.com/…/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts cough

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      • pmc@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Officially sanctioned by Microsoft!

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    • 30p87@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yep. But the fact M$ believes a few tools that are even far, far inferior to Linux’ tools are worth 60$ is a statement in itself.

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    $160 for OEM Win 11 Pro, or $120 for OEM Win 11 Home. Just be careful because swapping hardware could break the license, and you’d need to call M$ to get it fixed.

    Or just install w/o a license key and deal with the watermark (I assume it’s the same as w/ Win 10). That’s what I did since I primarily use Linux and only use Windows to test random stuff.

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    • 30p87@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Win 11 Pro for 2.50€ on ebay.

      I only use Windows in a VM, and never activated it, ever, but my point is that M$ officially thinks that their “advertisement delivery platform strapped to a program loader” is worth 259.00€.

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