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What a time to be alive

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Well yeah. Imagine for a 250$ “Operating system” to take weeks until it performs the same as a FOSS OS.

Edit: 259€.

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I’m sorry, 250 bucks? Where does it cost that much? 😅

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Windows 11 Pro, doesn’t matter if it’s just the License or with USB, officially costs 259€. Which is ~289 USD.

https://www.microsoft.com/de-de/d/windows-11-pro/dg7gmgf0d8h4/000P

And even for the US, it’s 200$.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/d/windows-11-pro/dg7gmgf0d8h4/000P

This is just the official price. Of course, you’ll almost always get free Win 11 Home with new computers, or a Volume License for 10€ from ebay, or you just don’t activate it. But the official price by M$ is 259€/200$. Which kinda means they think it is worth that much, and it would be justified to charge germans almost 300 USD for “an advertisement delivery platform strapped to a program loader”.

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Ok, this is the second time I’ve seen this $250 price. Where did you get that from?

Worst I’m seeing is ~$60 for a usb set up to install Pro along with the license, and you can easily get OEM Pro licenses for far far less.

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Normies hate grey market because it feels like they are stealing from the rich 🤡

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Windows 11 Pro, doesn’t matter if it’s just the License or with USB, officially costs 259€. Which is ~289 USD.

https://www.microsoft.com/de-de/d/windows-11-pro/dg7gmgf0d8h4/000P

And even for the US, it’s 200$.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/d/windows-11-pro/dg7gmgf0d8h4/000P

This is just the official price. Of course, you’ll almost always get free Win 11 Home with new computers, or a Volume License for 10€ from ebay, or you just don’t activate it. But the official price by M$ is 259€/200$. Which kinda means they think it is worth that much, and it would be justified to charge germans almost 300 USD for “an advertisement delivery platform strapped to a program loader”.

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“Users will need to look for KB5041587 under Windows update > Advanced options > Optional updates,” says AMD in a statement to Wccftech.

So, is this an optional update for now, or is this going to be included in some kind of omnibus update?

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That information is in the first paragraph.

And referenced by the sentence following your quote snippet.

And discussed in the next paragraph.

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I read it. I guess I didn’t understand it.

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I think it is optional now, and after they observe it’s stability for a while, they will move it into base update, but I’m not sure.

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The article isn’t especially clear. I would guess it’s the way you suggest, but maybe they’re gunshy after the CrowdStrike debacle and want to keep plausible deniability.

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It is optional until 24h2 releases at the end of September which it will be packaged with.

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Thanks. From the way I read it, it sounded like it was an optional update that came alongside 24H2.

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No worries. The way the info is laid out it’s pretty understandable how you came to that conclusion. I came to the comments to make sure I was understanding it correctly too.

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Does anyone know if this was also an issue that was impacting ryzen chips in Windows 10?

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I don’t know if it was a bug so much as a deficiency. OS Improvements to branch prediction will most likely not be backported to Win10

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Is this how we download more RAM?

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You wouldn’t steal a RAM!

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I absolutely would, they have pretty cool horns

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We’re certainly not making fun of someone with a speech impediment, are we?

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I was going for a somewhat iconic meme reference; didn’t intend for it to be taken in that way, but I see how it can be, and that’s a fair point.

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No, this is.

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I’m currently migrating my gaming system to Linux, it feels so good!

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