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> I was very surprised to see advertising in the operating system, for an operating system that people pay at least $190 CAD for. Most people don't pay this -
by judge2020 4y ago
> I was very surprised to see advertising in the operating system, for an operating system that people pay at least $190 CAD for.
Most people don't pay this - and I don't mean buying keys from lower-buying-power countries, I mean that anyone with a gaming laptop (which is a 2x bigger market than desktop[0]) is really only paying maybe $50 for Windows since Dell/Alienware, Acer, etc get very large volume licensing discounts.
0: "In 2021, gaming notebooks are forecast to account for nearly 43 percent of shipments in the global gaming PC market, with gaming desktops making up 27 percent of shipments. In 2025, the shipment share of gaming notebooks is expected to grow to 46 percent globally." https://www.statista.com/statistics/1119850/gaming-pc-market-shipment-share-worldwide-by-category/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/1119850/gaming-pc-market...
- Delk 4y ago> Most people don't pay this This is true. However, I have to say I still dislike the (kind of) double charging of selling the OS as a product and using it for advertising. The position Microsoft has allows them to both sell the cow and have the milk but that doesn't make it seem like a fair deal. Discounts for Windows licenses to OEMs have been a thing for decades (maybe always?), yet Windows was still seen as one of Microsoft's crown jewels and an important business, and Microsoft didn't exactly go bankrupt. Filling a paid product with advertising and monetized data collection just seems like a cheap move, even if the product is sold at significantly less than the list price in most cases.