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Microsoft killed Windows 10 to push Windows 11, but Windows sales crashed 27% as holdouts still refuse to switch (www.windowslatest.com)

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[–] gorlak@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don’t get “sales” of windows faltering, because I think to this day you can still activate win11 with valid win8 keys.

[–] gorlak@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh okay they mean OEM keys but those are tied to new computers so that seems to be wholly encumbered by a different problem which is needs for more compute haven’t gone up since 10 came out?

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 1 points 2 days ago

Windows 11 requirements are a big part of why the hardware costs are skyrocketing.

A laptop with less RAM can still run windows 10, but not 11.