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My question would be how could you bake into the original cost the cost of long term support when you have no idea how long one might use it? Windows XP was onl
by brianbreslin 9y ago
My question would be how could you bake into the original cost the cost of long term support when you have no idea how long one might use it? Windows XP was only end of life after 14 years. Some people STILL use it. I doubt the $139 price 14 years ago was expected to cover more than 5 years of use.
Would $5/month forever make more sense?
- JustSomeNobody 9y agoYou treat SW as a service and sell licenses instead of "boxed" copies.
- brianbreslin 9y agoI bet a lot of the companies buying thousands of copies of windows were treating them like assets and depreciating them over 3 years. Can't do that when its a subscription. Also no one was doing SaaS at wide scale until 9/10 years ago.
- Spooky23 9y agoAnyone with an EA has been paying for SA For Windows for many many years. The subscription is just a way to get rid of the perpetual right to use and effectively raise the rent. My marginal O365 user costs like 2x more because you cannot buy Office anymore in the EA that I have.