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coming soon: Monthly subscription to use windows with the justification that it uses an online service in order to work
"Embrace Extend Extinguish"
I can't wait for the eventual warning pop-ups and emails, warning me that my onedrive is almost full (70%)
Honestly I hope, would be a big boom for Linux which I already use
This year is the year of Linux, just like every year before it.
You joke but this
what do you mean by this
do u think a cloud pc (with constant server costs) shouldnt be a monthly fee?
I think this is likely the "new only Windows option" in the not so distant future. I think it shouldn't exist.
And what will be the host from which you will run Cloud PC? Linux, macOS?
What sick moronic idiot would want a cloud pc that's accessible via... a pc
Their primary use is enterprise not private consumers. Think of virtualized OS accessible over internet that you can manage/protect and provide for example to some random consultant. Or just provide more powerful PC on low end HW.
It's costly though and not sure it ever gained traction because there always were alternatives like Citrix Desktops.
I have a confident guess about what Microsoft runs theirs on.. it ain't Windows.
ugh ew thin clients that probably will work even worse
Still $129 for the initial license key, too
It's been a thing for years already for enterprises
Probably an unpopular opinion, but I don't see a problem with subscriptions for commercial software. Fixing bugs and security issues after release is an ongoing effort that costs money, so a one-time purchase isn't really economically viable in the long run. I honestly wouldn't feel comfortable using unmaintained software that might contain known but unfixed vulnerabilities.
As someone who advises on and implements software at work that would be sorta ok if these companies charging several thousand a year would actually fix bugs and provide proper support. Zendesk is a pretty big display of this: feature requests lay dormant in their support pages, the only way you can get support is through a chat where the rep will point you to an article you already read most of the time, updates that ever obfuscates settings into a dizzying amount of menus in the admin panel, and so on. All for a minimum of $55 a month per seat if you want email and calling. The issue is costs are sky high for practically no value
Have you checked how much money Microsoft have recently? Their current model doesn't appear to be a problem for them.
You're arguing a completely different point. Windows isn't Microsoft's only product by a long shot, so I don't see how their money (whatever you mean by that, specifically) is the answer here. Also, every few years there's a new Windows version which again costs money - almost like a subscription with bigger installments at longer intervals.