Shoutouts to MASSGRAVE.

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• hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨15⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  Basically every device sold with windows is licensed, and the cost of the license is baked in

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• justdaveisfine@piefed.social ⁨15⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  I bought a license for my custom PC.

  …They were good for ~2 years until a Win11 update, which then said its invalid. Now it keeps prompting me to buy a new one.

  Never again.

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• threeonefour@piefed.ca ⁨51⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  Every business and government in the world? Once when I started a new job, the IT guy asked if I needed to use things like Word or Excel, because it’s $500 per year per employee for an Office365 subscription and they’re trying to keep the costs down. That’s on top of the Windows subscription.

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  • Chronographs@lemmy.zip ⁨21⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    I wouldn’t say every business, I’ve definitely worked somewhere where all our machines were cracked. but that’s going to be the exception not the rule obviously.

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    • LeftReddit2@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Back when I was in the Army… we definitely had some means to tactically acquire Windows licenses.

      I worked IT in the Army and whenever they asked me how I did it, I told them to not worry about it.

      We also never paid for winrar. So if you wonder where that huge budget goes to, it is not to Windows Licenses or Winrar.

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• db2@lemmy.world ⁨56⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  Corporate aside I’ve interacted with more people who paid for winrar than windows.

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