Is This Windows 7 "Rumor" Correct?

[BonzaiDuck]

I downloaded the release candidate, and have it installed on a test-machine.

Everyone was goo-gah about Microsoft's gur-eat generosity, allowing users to play with RC1 for a year's time before it starts auto-re-booting, or needs to be replaced with a licensed Windows 7 installation.

Now someone else has told me of a rumor they heard that Windows 7 would be released as a "subscription," requiring renewal after some period of time.

Is this TRUE? I don't like the concept of subscription software of any kind, with the exception of security and AV packages that address mutating threats that compel frequent software revisions in addition to the database files that must be constantly updated.

What's the story about this?

 

[masteryoda34]

Originally posted by: BonzaiDuck
Now someone else has told me of a rumor they heard that Windows 7 would be released as a "subscription," requiring renewal after some period of time.

No. Maybe there will be subscription options in the future, but Microsoft is already selling Windows 7 licenses the same way all the other MS OS's work.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Originally posted by: masteryoda34

Originally posted by: BonzaiDuck
Now someone else has told me of a rumor they heard that Windows 7 would be released as a "subscription," requiring renewal after some period of time.

No. Maybe there will be subscription options in the future, but Microsoft is already selling Windows 7 licenses the same way all the other MS OS's work.

That's a relief to me.

After looking at the RC1, with a desire to change over from XP-MCE 32-bit to a 64-bit OS, I chose not to wait. VISTA is now in its 2nd Service-Pack revision. The lag in time between the initial VISTA release and the pending debut of Windows 7 seems short by comparison to earlier OS generations, and I suspect that whatever improvements and refinements Win 7 brings, its release was driven partly by the marketing disaster owing to problems with VISTA before SP1.

Some here are arguing that Win 7 is "more refined," but what can't be improved with a couple of service packs? I suppose I should continue to play with the RC1 download/install, but VISTA 64 Sp2 makes me very happy. :laugh:

 

[KeypoX]

actually its about normal release time, 2-3 years between os's. Only xp to vista was so long, and thats because vista/longhorn was delayed by years.

 

[Gooberlx2]

No. Though I don't doubt there will eventually be a subscription model. I was kinda interested in the office+onecare subscription that MS had going with CircuitCity (MS Equipt). But they've since killed it because without bundling the (now freely replaced) virus scanner, it's kinda lame.

 

[yinan]

I would not be surprised if more and more of Microsoft's applications started being subscripts now that Microsoft has application virtualization technology which can be configured to check and see if you are allowed to run something.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Originally posted by: KeypoX
actually its about normal release time, 2-3 years between os's. Only xp to vista was so long, and thats because vista/longhorn was delayed by years.

Leaving the marketing and pre-service-pack disaster of VISTA aside, it's probably a good guess that all the time and effort put into developing VISTA made a no-delay release of Windows 7 more likely -- if former is the basis for the latter . . .

 

[lopri]

I think this will happen to the Office first before it makes it into the OS.