Is Windows 11 Pro coming up for sale at a low price?
Is Windows 11 Pro coming up for sale at a low price?
When I searched before, people keep telling me that keys are just stolen goods. Is that right? I checked if selling them is illegal and most sites say no. I don't know the price for Windows 11 Pro or Education or Enterprise, or how many keys come with a volume license. I see someone making money by just giving out their extra keys. How many keys are in one batch of Windows 11? What does it cost to get them? Is it safe to buy from random websites? Who should I trust? One site also says you should pay more for online activation at
Volume Licensing is just sold by Microsoft. You should talk to them directly. The number of keys you get depends on your deal and how much money you pay. If you have a business and buy one thousand, you will pay less per key than if you only bought twenty. One person licenses usually cost about $100 for Windows 11 Home.
If someone is selling software keys to the same price that Microsoft itself charges, they are doing something wrong or shady. As a regular customer, you cannot buy an Enterprise license because those require special approval. You also can't buy an Educational license unless you are actually a teacher or student from a school that Microsoft officially accepts.
Do you think those websites are so good at getting things really low that people buy them for the price? Is there a secret spot in Microsoft where everything is super cheap?
And they might not be \"stolen keys\", but rather keys bought using stolen credit cards. That is money laundering. If you can get 100 stolen and valid credit card accounts for just $100, how do you end up with real cash? You cannot go to a store and buy stuff to sell... there are records and cameras. You cannot buy things that arrive in the mail. There has to be a paper trail and an actual address. So instead of buying digital goods that only use a temporary email address, you buy valid software licenses at regular stores without using your own cards. You don't care because they aren't yours now. Then you can sell those licenses for $20 each. Software, games, CAD programs, Photoshop, whatever. Buy 1,000 of them and sell them all for $20. That turns your $100 investment into $20,000 money straight from the washing machine. Now... when the real owner of those credit cards gets mad and says the charge was fraudulent, Microsoft might cancel any licenses bought with it. But you? You have no license anymore. The middle man, our thief who used stolen cards, is long gone.