Microsoft planning to charge monthly for Windows OS?? Say What??

[Noo]

How's Office 365 and Adobe Creative Cloud going?

 

[Anarchist420]

microsoft needs to be stripped of their intellectual privileges if they plan to make windows subscription-based.

 

[sportage]

I predicted this years ago. It's inevitable. Rather pay one or two hundred dollars for windows os, they will charge a monthly fee kinda like Netflix. You will never have to pay for their os again except the monthly fee. I'm sure MS will toss in some perks like including their own version of say Netflix or other social media connections. When u buy that new PC, registering will include entering a credit card to activate the os. I assume ms feels this is more attractive to current ms users to keep current, while ms moves away from the need to just give away their latest os with new machines. Besides, with this route all windows based PC users will be playing the same tune. No more win vista vs win 7 vs win 8 and so on and so on. This way all users will operate under the same current ms os release. For their own reason ms wants to eliminate users operating under various versions of their os. MS wants everyone to be in step with the current and latest ms operating system. Older pc's will be forcibly phased out. Kinda like Betamax, VHS, leaded gasoline.

 

[rockyct]

This. The whole article was about how the weren't going to do the same to Windows as Office.

I think it's pretty funny that no one actually read the article and instead gave some ultimatum if Windows moved to a subscription model. Not only are they not moving Windows to a subscription model but they may give away Windows on 9" devices or less to OEMs.

FYI, the article was written by Mary Jo Foley. That may not mean anything to most people but she is actually a real journalist writing just about Microsoft/enterprise. I trust her more than 95% of other tech journalists.

How's Office 365 and Adobe Creative Cloud going?

Office 365 is going quite well. Its success is probably feeding these fake rumors.

 

[Skel]

I think it's pretty funny that no one actually read the article and instead gave some ultimatum if Windows moved to a subscription model. Not only are they not moving Windows to a subscription model but they may give away Windows on 9" devices or less to OEMs.

FYI, the article was written by Mary Jo Foley. That may not mean anything to most people but she is actually a real journalist writing just about Microsoft/enterprise. I trust her more than 95% of other tech journalists.



Office 365 is going quite well. Its success is probably feeding these fake rumors.

The more I read this thread, the more I wondered if I read the same article. I guess this shows the anger towards MS is not only alive and well, but also still intense enough to make people ignore what's actually being said.

 

[iGas]

Well if this happens I will just switch all my family computes to a linux based OS. I think Microsoft will see a major revolt from it's consumers.

I'm happy with Linux exclusively for 12 years, then I got back into photography and found that Gimp & Darktable aren't as well developed as Photoshop & Lightroom, hence I was forced to buy the abomination Windows 8. If software developers step up their games for Photography and Videos for Linux then I would definitely go back to Linux again in a heart beat.

 

[John Connor]

My prediction is that China will develop their own OS to run in competition with Windows. We just need a new OS non-Linux that's like Windows and can support games like BF3, etc. The only reason to that is DirectX is holding everyone hostage for the most part. As far as office orientated apps you could easily run Linux. If I ran a bussiness I would have nothing but Linux! Fuck Winblows! Suck a fat one assholes! I will NEVER own a Xbox either. Long live PlayStation!

One word: Wrapper. :evilgrin:

 

[KMFJD]

They would be significantly decreasing their potential clients if it did require a constant call back feature

 

[Cerb]

Yeah I just don't get why organizations are so stuborn when it comes to office programs. Libre/Open Office pretty much get the job done just as well and any draw backs are worthwhile just to consider the money you save. MS Office is retardedly expensive.

Some of it is idiotic reasoning, no doubt, but:
1. Microsoft makes compatibility a problem for LiberOffice/OpenOffice. I only use Office at work for this reason. The default ***x formats have something change in new versions, and make the FOSS guys play catch-up. IE, I if I do any substantial formatting in a docx or xlsx file in Word 2013, LibreOffice will read and save it incorrectly. If I do the same in 2010 or 2007, LibreOffice handles it fine for docx, and acceptably for xlsx. I'm not even talking about macros, just headers, margins, row/column colors, paragraph formatting, etc.. Given that this has happened for two versions (2010, 2013), and is less of a/no problem in prior versions, I'm quite confident it is intentional on MS' part.
2. Schools often get MS software copies dirt cheap, to hook people and keep them hooked. $30 for Office today (usually taxpayer money), $100/yr or $200-400/seat once you're out of school.

 

[holden j caufield]

every user that has had office 365 has preferred we install office (most requested 2010) instead.

 

[imagoon]

Some of it is idiotic reasoning, no doubt, but:
1. Microsoft makes compatibility a problem for LiberOffice/OpenOffice. I only use Office at work for this reason. The default ***x formats have something change in new versions, and make the FOSS guys play catch-up. IE, I if I do any substantial formatting in a docx or xlsx file in Word 2013, LibreOffice will read and save it incorrectly. If I do the same in 2010 or 2007, LibreOffice handles it fine for docx, and acceptably for xlsx. I'm not even talking about macros, just headers, margins, row/column colors, paragraph formatting, etc.. Given that this has happened for two versions (2010, 2013), and is less of a/no problem in prior versions, I'm quite confident it is intentional on MS' part.
2. Schools often get MS software copies dirt cheap, to hook people and keep them hooked. $30 for Office today (usually taxpayer money), $100/yr or $200-400/seat once you're out of school.

The took a page from Apple. It only $10 for .edu. It costs more to manage openoffice in a large environment like a school district because to this day they (meaning open devs in general) still refuse to add something like GPO to either it or Linux. Free software like Linux and openoffice is simply not "free" no matter how much the Libre crowd will tell you.

 

[blankslate]

Bottom line: Microsoft is definitely all-in with subscriptions. But Windows 365 or anything like it isn't in the cards, my sources say. Fake list is fake.

It is very unlikely to happen. There was already a way for users to subscribe to MS for OSes and that was the individual TechNet accounts which allowed subscribers to get a key (or a few) for new OSes and other things. Only a very small minority of users used it.

Most people buy a MS OS along with a new PC, when that PC wears out. Turns out a lot of those MS customers don't understand how software moves along and how that turns a good enough OS that came out over a decade ago into a very vulnerable increasingly difficult to keep patched lame duck target for bad actors.

While organizations are would be fine with the subscription model for an OS, Microsoft knows that it generally doesn't work for the average individual user of computers. Individual users of

http://twit.tv/show/windows-weekly/364
http://twit.cachefly.net/video/ww/ww0364/ww0364_h264m_864x480_500.mp4

The above is a link to Leo Laporte's weekly streamcast show that covers All things windows in which they discuss this very slight possibility.

starting at about 41 minutes into the video.

Things could change but right now it's not in the cards for the near future. Perhaps they realize that some Linux distributions are in fact easy enough for enough users who are sufficiently motivated to try it out. And a subscription model that users have pay an annual fee to use windows might provide that motivation.


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[spaceman]

yeah call it windows dlc edition
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[zanejohnson]

lol windows.


Linux and VM's from here on out for me...