Microsoft might just be planning to make the next generation of Windows a cloud-based, subscription service. While we have already had evidence of the former, fresh new leak hints at the latter too.
  • Random Dent@lemmy.ml
    42·
    1 year ago

    Yeah that seems like the more likely move, have a free tier that starts off decent and a premium tier with ‘power features’ or whatever, and then slowly drift almost everything over to the ‘premium’ tier until in a few years you won’t be able to change your desktop wallpaper without paying. That definitely sounds like the MS way to me.

    • EpicFailGuy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      53·
      1 year ago

      YUP! And then something like a 1 year free demo when you buy a computer from an OEM … to make sure all the normies get used to it.

      Right of the M$ playbook.

      I for once can’t wait, it’s going to be a fun dumpster fire to watch

      • Moonrise2473@feddit.it
        1·
        1 year ago

        Seems a dumb way to destroy the desktop PC market.

        People will feel scammed that after one year everything needs a subscription, will dump that shit on eBay, prices will crash, and the market will be dominated by iPads with mouse and keyboards

    • ares35@kbin.social
      31·
      1 year ago

      they’ve already done various low-cost or no-cost (to the oem) windows editions that you can’t change wallpaper, or default search engine, stripped out utility programs included in ‘regular’ editions, and even one that limited multitasking, disabled some network functions, and had hard limits on ram and total disk space.