• Microsoft recently threw a lifeline to consumers, offering alternatives to paying $30 for extended support for Windows 10
  • Public Interest Research Group thinks this doesn’t go far enough in terms of avoiding an impending e-waste calamity
  • The organization suggests Microsoft considers providing longer-term support for Windows 10, or relaxes the spec requirements for Windows 11
  • grue@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    You seriously think they wouldn’t, if they thought they could get away with it?

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      2 days ago

      There is no world where the retail cost of a software product was literally quadrupled based purely on demand, lol.

      Accept that it was a ridiculous exaggeration on your part.

      The funniest part of this is that it’s already ridiculous at the lowest end of the range you gave, but you went up to $240/year. “Oh yeah, if lots of people buy it, we’ll just 8x the price, surely that won’t torpedo the sales numbers”.