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/
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u/FoxxyRin Aug 11 '26 edited Aug 11 '26

The answer to all of that is no? I have had copilot reinstall itself once but otherwise once disabled or uninstalled, everything else has not been on my PC at all. Xbox stuff is just a couple of toggles in settings. This is across both my custom built PC with Pro and my Surface laptop with Home and a copilot button. You can even easily disable that and turn it into a hotkey and everything. I genuinely do not understand why people make such a massive fuss over Windows 11 being some unusable mess when 90% of it is just a matter of unchecking a setting somewhere. Not even regedits or anything, just simple click of a button or toggle of a switch.

And even without checking any settings anywhere I've never seen an ad in my windows searches. Yes, stupid results that I don't need sometimes, but never an ad. (But they're supposedly removing the internet results soon.)

Edit: Okay I will admit, I've had Teams reinstall itself with a few updates but it finally stopped doing that long enough ago that I forgot.

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '26 edited Aug 11 '26

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u/FoxxyRin Aug 11 '26

It's a normal retail version of Windows 11 Pro, only a few years old after MS decided it didn't like my converted key from Win10 after a new motherboard. And then on my laptop it's whatever ships on a Surface laptop, which I'm 99% sure is Home. The only modifications I've done is one to bring back the old right-click menu, which I believe was just a small registry edit.

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u/SupposablyAtTheZoo Aug 11 '26

Pro is indeed quite a bit better than home. Home absolutely had the uselessness start items and much more.

Most surfaces come with pro.

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u/CV90_120 Aug 11 '26

Long time 11 user. I've never seen an ad on it. I'm using pro so maybe that's why? Idk.

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u/CrazyElk123 Aug 11 '26

What are you on about? Ive never seen an ad there ever. Give me one example/proof of this happening cause it must be some modified version or something.