Microsoft Back Price Gouging This Time It’s Their Windows OS – Channelnews
Microsoft is raising Windows 11 license fees for some OEMs by 7% to 10%, and brands say the cost may add about 5% to PC prices.
- A new report from Taiwan's United Daily News says Microsoft has significantly raised Windows licensing fees for OEMs, with manufacturers recently asked to pay 7% to 10% more.
- Microsoft charges OEMs based on the CPU tier inside the machine, so higher-end chips incur greater licensing fees, compounding existing financial pressure on manufacturers.
- In Taiwan, Asus and Acer have confirmed PC price hikes of up to 5% this quarter, as manufacturers grapple with rising costs for memory, SSDs, and CPUs.
- Counterpoint Research expects global shipments to land around 65 million units in the second quarter of 2026, representing a 4% year-over-year decline.
- Since last year, demand for components has surged, causing prices to climb by almost 30% for some products and creating mounting pressure on PC buyers.
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Microsoft increases Windows 11 fees for OEMs
The crunch on the PC market continues as the rising memory chip prices are not the only thing that's getting more expensive. Starting today, Microsoft is hiking up its Windows 11 license fees for OEMs. The price increase is somewhere between 7% and 10%, which is unusually high. One of the PC vendors noted that it's expected for Microsoft to increase prices pretty much every year, but it's usually by a low singe-digit percentages. Big OEMs that s…
Acquiring a new PC is turning into a true portfolio test. The constant escalation in the costs of RAM and various essential components has now gained a new pressure element. This comes directly from...
The price of computers continues to accumulate pressure. At the rise of RAM and other components is now added a possible increase of up to 10% in what Microsoft charges manufacturers to include Windows 11
Microsoft Back Price Gouging This Time It’s Their Windows OS – channelnews
Price gouging software Company Microsoft, who have jacked up the price of their Xbox products along with M365 subscriptions along with One Drive costs this year, is now hitting manufacturers with a Windows price rise, which is set tp be passed directly onto consumers by PC manufacturers. Microsoft has quietly increased Windows OEM licensing fees for computer manufacturers by 7% to 10%, delivering a fresh blow to PC vendors already reeling from h…
Microsoft has raised between 7% and 10% Windows 11 licenses paid by manufacturers and the hit will reach the final price
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