Remember the rumors over 10 years ago that Windows 8 was going to be a subscription OS?
this post was submitted on 06 Oct 2023
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This is what happens when one part of their business (Game Pass) does well and they want to translate that success to other operations. What they don’t realize is that Windows is less a product and more a service, and you can’t make money on services. Not for long, anyway.
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gonna be great when you can't afford to pay this month and you lose access to your computer
So is business moving to M365 windows lics no doubt. It's been on the cards for a while.
Yeah, please do that. It will be great!
Seems like an odd direction when a lot services are moving online and to SaaS based solutions, removing the dependency of a specific underlying OS.
This is just another move in that direction. Maybe the next version will be a thin client where you stream most of your apps. The pricing wouldn't change, only where apps are run.
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It’s a good idea, so the pain will end and it will die one and for all
I've been enjoying Windows 10 with some of the shite stripped out and will probably be sticking to that for the foreseeable future. Still, cringe.
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Since when has windows 11 been deprecated? After windows 7 I switched to Linux and all I hear is new windows is around the corner and even worse! How does this company even keep customers, when all they do is upgrade their windows?!
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they've been wanting to do a subscription windows since they did some limited testing of the concept back with win7.
And they'll still steal all your data and spy on everything you do!