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by pydry 2001 days ago
It's the only software in the world I've tried to actively avoid buying and failed. At least 7 times now.

It's the shopping channel of software. Whether or not you wanted it it comes bundled.

I'm pretty sure it'd be a lot less popular if every OEM had a check box that said Ubuntu that deducted the license fee. MS frowns upon that sort of thing, though.

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I found an article that says that OEMs pay around $10 for a Windows license, at least for tablets. If I was buying a new computer I’d probably keep Windows installed for $10 just in case I needed to dual boot some time in the future.
At some point they weren't paying anything for licenses on sub 9" devices. Although I swear it was 11" or 14" on Win10 at some point I can't find a reference.

https://www.onmsft.com/news/windows-10-9-remains-free-oems-a...