• peopleproblems@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Wait. They want me to pay for something I already paid for?

    Well guess my $2.5k new windowless machine is looking better everyday.

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        2 months ago

        Oh yeah. Windows XP Professional 64 bit. Each “upgrade” used the same license and never really got screwy until 10. Won’t go to 11.

        Edit: Actually I don’t think I even paid for that, I think it was an OEM license my dad got from his work.

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        2 months ago

        You know what’s shocking? I did. I ruined my desktop trying to set it up with some web server functions and wiping it somehow got rid of the license.

        And so I paid to get rid of the watermark… boo!

        There you go one last scary story for the season.

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        2 months ago

        See below: I started my machine off with an XP Professional 64bit license (I didn’t personally buy) in like 2006?

        Because I kept the key for… Oh god 18 years, I always had the windows Pro versions. Windows 7 64 pro, Windows 8.1 Pro, and Windows 10 Pro.

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          2 months ago

          What are you complaining about then?

          They supported your hardware for 18 years even when it was only meant to be for a single OS version and now people still had the option of upgrading but the hardware is just too goddamn old. I’m not defending Microsoft I also think the requirements are too high for 11, but expecting even more from your key is just ridiculous.