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Enterprise versions of windows has always been subscription based.

I'll highly doubt they would introduce the subscription model for other versions of windows, If they do!! It will backfire.

Nikorj wrote: Enterprise versions of windows has always been subscription based.

I'll highly doubt they would introduce the subscription model for other versions of windows, If they do!! It will backfire.

I agree with you Nikorj. Extending it to other versions will backfire.

@fellow it's going to happen in the future. If you don't update. You wouldn't get the latest path of security of computer.

They claim window 10 is the last operate system.

sweetpie3000 wrote: @fellow it's going to happen in the future. If you don't update. You wouldn't get the latest path of security of computer.

They claim window 10 is the last operate system.

I read the Forbes report. I have already upgraded since 2015. We will wait and see how it pans out.

Did Microsoft have annual fee on office 365. It use to Be free for customer.

The idea of paying for an operating system is strange to me. Don't get me wrong, I've done it in the past. Back in the dial up, and later metered internet days, I've paid for Debian CDs, and Debian came on about 30 CDs if you wanted the lot. It wasn't the cheapest thing you could buy. The point is, I'm prepared to pay for an operating system, there just isn't any need to.

I suppose the advantage of paying for it is that you own it then, and you can modify it to do exactly what you want or need it to do? No, wait, it's the other way round. It's the free one that you actually own, and can modify to do exactly what you want or need...

The idea of renting an operating system is patently absurd. I don't think we'll ever have the fabled "year of Linux on the desktop", but I don't think you'll have a desktop very much longer anyway - it's already pretty hard to find a cheap laptop that isn't really a chromebook, so you're not going to join us properly, but you're going to be using Linux.

Windows is dead, this is just the drawn out whiny death throes of a fallen empire.

I don't like the sound of any of it.

I'm in the same boat as you BouldRake. The last time I paid for an operating system was around the turn of the century. Been using Linux since my Windows PC died in early 2005. I was on unemployment benefits back then, needed a PC for job hunting, and the best option for my tiny budget was a half-decent used PC with no OS & a free Linux CD from a magazine (Mandrake back then, PCLinuxOS for the last 7 or so years).

I could not imagine paying a subscription fee for an operating system. It would be like owning a car, and having to pay the engine manufacturer a fee every month if you want to continue using the engine that came with it.

BouldRake wrote:
Windows is dead, this is just the drawn out whiny death throes of a fallen empire.

I disagree. I've never paid for an operating system (and highly doubt I'll ever will), I've been very happy with Windows' updates all over the years, and in 2015 it was used by a 91.56% of people... I can't see how it's even close to be dead.

Quote:I've never paid for an operating system

Oh yes you have.

Well, if I keep the same PC for years, I certainly won't have paid much for Windows.

Anyway, I'd rather pay that than having to cope with all the trouble Linux can cause, or the restriction OS X means.

By the way, all this monthly fee thing is just a rumour; even if it finally happened, I guess they'd only charge large companies and the like, I hardly believe it'd affect ordinary users... because that would mean suicide, and then Windows would be surely dead.

I'm not a techi but I do dislike windows.

I went through PC's like candy for many years until I came to realize that
Apple products were much better for my use overall plus lasted.

I've been using the same IMAC for 5 years. I've saved thousands of dollars.

I do have windows on some laptops, etc.

Sarah_Hill wrote:

BouldRake wrote:
Windows is dead, this is just the drawn out whiny death throes of a fallen empire.

I disagree. I've never paid for an operating system (and highly doubt I'll ever will), I've been very happy with Windows' updates all over the years, and in 2015 it was used by a 91.56% of people... I can't see how it's even close to be dead.

Window is dead in mobile? Window hasn't figure out how to capitalize in mobile? The mobile is the future.

Unless game and app companies adopt a new OS to release on, I don't see windows as being dead.

The subscription model is something that is going to be part of the future. This was discussed year ago, that eventually Windows will be subscription based and / or the windows update component.

It makes sense since Windows 10 is the last version (allegedly) and that any future changes will be delivered through updates, it is only logical that they would add subscription policies to it as eventually they still have to continue generating revenues.

For a company, subscription based is not much of an issue as some are already subscribed to some product or service of some kind.

But this will eventually happen on consumer editions, not for now, but I can see this happening few years down the road, and not only for Windows software. Perhaps as a measure to control piracy, one day parts of the software code would be available online and only unlocked upon subscription requiring being always online and connected to use the software, though nothing is impossible to bypass (remember what they said about BluRay protection )

So perhaps they will say ok, consumers pay a monthly fee OR can opt out of it and allow us to add ads and monetise your OS

In any case MSFT revenues is not primarily from consumer Windows users, so I think that perhaps they might add fee based services or subscription based services to parts of the OS, not the Windows itself but components - There is lots of piracy in the consumer world and game companies have learned that adding draconian DRM to their titles does not make things better, it makes the opposite happen, so unless Microsoft wants to see an increase in piracy or completely kill the consumer market for windows, they would be on the right path to do so - but subscription model and cloud based seems to be the future, and many software companies are going down that road, so you can bet that Microsoft will follow - why wouldn't they if others are doing it............