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>what surprise me is that a Windows 11 Pro licence cost 259 Euro. Micro$oft still make a lot of money with windonws =) Not really. Windows 11 Pro retail is $19
by ChuckNorris89 4y ago
>what surprise me is that a Windows 11 Pro licence cost 259 Euro. Micro$oft still make a lot of money with windonws =)
Not really. Windows 11 Pro retail is $199 today which might sound steep but in comparison Windows XP Pro retail was $299 in 2001 which adjusted for inflation would be $500 today. Ouch!
Windows 95 retailed at a whopping $205 in '95 or ~$400 in today's money, while a retail Win 11 Home is $139 now.
So Windows has actually gotten massively cheaper, which is weird considering that OS complexity, update frequency has increased and SW dev salaries and expenses have gone up since then.
- flatiron 4y agoThey make money on OS ads now to subsidize the cost
- ChuckNorris89 4y agoThat and no more customer support to pay for. Plus, the consumer prices are probably subsidized by the massive volumes in OEM licenses and O365 subscriptions.
- okasaki 4y agoMicrosoft never had customer support. If you had a problem you either called your grandson or took it to the local computer repair shop. Maybe you mean QA testers.
- Otek 4y agoBut Microsoft is making now money from tracking and they didn’t do that in ‘95