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Microsoft is cracking down on people upgrading to Windows 11 on unsupported hardware (www.xda-developers.com)
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[โ€“] Jarix 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Your argument is flawed. The situation is using Windows 11 on unsupported hardware. So the sale you are talking about has already happened which invalidates your point

I'm assuming you simply misread the question

Windows 7/8/10 are irrelevant as that's an entirely different situation

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 25 minutes ago

When you get a new laptop it comes with Windows (except in very rare exceptions). So microsoft collects another sale.

All the other windows versions are very important to my argument as you can use old 7/8/10 licenses to activate Win 11.