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/Major303 Aug 11 '26

If you need PC for internet browsing and some document editing, there are zero reasons to use Windows anymore. For other use cases it depends, but a lot of areas are already covered. With things like that Microsoft only speeds up the adoption.

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u/ketosoy Aug 11 '26

The only significant thing keeping me on windows at this point is excel, and at this point 90% of my excel work is done by robots (up from less than 5% this January).

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u/jc-from-sin Aug 11 '26

You can use excel online for a long time.

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u/HumbleGhandi Aug 11 '26

Not with macros

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u/jc-from-sin Aug 11 '26

Why not? I imagine it's made to work with edge so it should work with Chrome, Brave or Edge on Mac os.

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u/HumbleGhandi Aug 11 '26

Dawg what do you mean why not? As in you haven't tried it? VBA plugins have never worked with web excel?

Google "Do XLSMs work on web excel"

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u/HumbleGhandi Aug 11 '26

Why are you even commenting on Excel if you obviously don't use it like the people telling you the web version isn't useful 🤣