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I don't think microsoft makes that much money from customers buying their OS directly, but rather from OEMs installing Windows by default on the laptops/desktop
by roblabla 11y ago
I don't think microsoft makes that much money from customers buying their OS directly, but rather from OEMs installing Windows by default on the laptops/desktops they are selling.
Never once have I met a person buying a standalone windows upgrade/windows OS. Either they end up buying a new computer, they stick with whatever was installed on their computer (hello, XP/Vista users), or they illegally download the upgrades.
- cstejerean 11y agoThey definitely sell retail copies of Windows, and someone must be buying them, or else I can't imagine the retailers would bother stocking them. For example, a good amount of the people that have Macs also need to run Windows virtual machines (or Bootcamp), and the primary way to do that is to buy a retail copy of Windows. I can't imagine that's a very high percentage of revenue, but I wouldn't say that nobody buys Windows directly.
- jnbiche 11y agoIf you illegally download upgrades, then you're almost certainly infecting your computer with significant malware. Do people not care about this? I'm not a big Windows fan (I've run Linux as my primary OS for years), but I've bought several Windows OS packages over the years for work (testing software).