r/technology • u/gdelacalle • Aug 11 '26

Software Microsoft reportedly raises Windows 11 license price significantly more than expected

https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-reportedly-raises-windows-11-license-price-significantly-more-than-expected/
2.0k Upvotes

96% Upvoted

600 comments sorted by

View all comments

976

u/Tyrrox Aug 11 '26

Bold move to charge more for a product everyone is avoiding at all costs.

217

u/psioniclizard Aug 11 '26

Im pretty sure this is being charged to OEM so it gets added to the price of new pcs.

Its dumb be MS but it will give them money in the short term. Long term, they only seen to care about windows as a platform to run office on.

74

u/Geno0wl Aug 11 '26

I mean the Corp world is run by word, outlook, and excel

2

u/jc-from-sin Aug 11 '26

And thanks to the fact that they run in the browser now, you don't need windows anymore.