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Microsoft might want to be making Windows 12 a subscription OS, suggests leak

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Re: Microsoft might want to be making Windows 12 a subscription OS, suggests leak

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post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes but what is the right price for a one-time payment of software ? If you're going to use maintenance, updates, all the work that comes after you paid, what do you consider is a correct price to pay in advance for all future changes ?

The "correct price" depends entirely on the specific software, so this is an impossible question to answer in its literal sense. > what do you consider is a correct price to pay in advance for all future changes ? You don't. Outside of security updates, which should never be charged for, you pay for the software as it exists when you buy it. When future changes come around, you buy the upgrade (if you want it). It's…

>Outside of security updates, which should never be charged for

Why shouldn't you be charged for for security updates?

Re: Microsoft might want to be making Windows 12 a subscription OS, suggests leak

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post #17

I'm not even sure why Windows 11 exists, I can't see any real difference over Windows 10 (once I move the start menu back to the left) Hell, I don't even know what's the difference between Windows 7 and 11

The whole "TPM required" thing probably necessitated a major version increase...

Re: Microsoft might want to be making Windows 12 a subscription OS, suggests leak

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post #76

I don't know if you guys have heard but there's this other operating system Linux and

That does not have the same catalog of games as Windows, that does not have the same catalog of useful third party apps as Mac, that does not have the ease of maintenance as Windows and Mac...

I heard there will be the year of Linux desktop since maybe 15 years but there's a reason that hasn't happened.

Re: Microsoft might want to be making Windows 12 a subscription OS, suggests leak

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TL;DR: The canary channel of Windows contains some references which hint that Windows will become a subscription instead of an upfront sale.

More likely, if you choose to signin with a windows/live/entra id, your subscription activates it, else you out in a code. It would be utter incompetence when macos is a thing to not frog-boil consumers. It might be sunscription only, but probably not right away.

Re: Microsoft might want to be making Windows 12 a subscription OS, suggests leak

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If Microsoft does, I am not using Windows 12, I am going to Ubuntu. I won't even pirate it. I refuse to pay a subscription for an OS, that should be pay once and be done paying.

There's a decent OS called MacOS that's somehow always free on major new releases...
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