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[–] [email protected] 204 points 6 months ago (8 children)

With how aggressive Microsoft is becoming with ads, services, and data collection they could at least make Windows itself free.

But no, you still have to pay £100+ per license to have the pleasure of putting up with this crap.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 6 months ago (7 children)
[–] [email protected] 83 points 6 months ago (6 children)

Piracy is not a real solution to the problem. Microsoft allows these sorts of things to exist in the background because they would rather lose out on some sales than lose market share.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago
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