Windows costs $100 normally.
It costs only $10 when you buy them from a key reseller, for $90 of savings.
There's a lot of loophole that can be afforded in the $90 gulf between the two prices.
It costs only $10 when you buy them from a key reseller, for $90 of savings.
There's a lot of loophole that can be afforded in the $90 gulf between the two prices.
I wonder why Microsoft doesn't region lock them or do some kind of audit if they don't want that market to exist. I'm also not sure why someone would buy an obviously grey market key when there are KMS activation solutions on github.
If Microsoft did want to allow for resale at any price and at least capture the fees, an NFT solution would let them do it without a lot of effort (building an exchange, processing payments, handling fraud, etc in each locale).
That's the sort of problem NFTs solve, generically, for digital ownership and transfer (licensing, tickets, club membership, etc).
With some amount of network effect and ease of use (the web3 wallet experience is actually quite good), I think NFTs will look like the obvious answer.
So yeah, its not really a thing NFTs solve, and something that a very simple chip on a motherboard solves perfectly.
People don't really "buy Windows" in practice. They buy a laptop, or a Dell computer. And they sell the laptop, or Dell computer, in its entirety.