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> Half-devil advocating here, but is this the end of the world? I agree. Consumers being able to confidently and simply calculate total cost of ownership is a
by jrflowers 3y ago
> Half-devil advocating here, but is this the end of the world?
I agree. Consumers being able to confidently and simply calculate total cost of ownership is archaic — it only got Microsoft to $2.4T in valuation. What consumers really want is to get MSFT to $2.49T and we’ll happily accept a black box of personal and business costs to get them there
- grotorea 3y agoEh, you can just get the price and include it in the budget as a monthly expense, no different from any other. Consider that the normal one time price will only last for as long as you use the OS. Why is a one time fee that will last an undetermined but long time always simpler than a repeating fee? And what if the one-time fee is too expensive and I wanted to spread it? Unless Microsoft decides to change the price later of course. In which case you'd have little recourse since changing OSes is hard.
- jrflowers 3y ago> Eh, you can just get the price and include it in the budget as a monthly expense, no different from any other. Exactly! Before you could add the cost of hardware and Windows together and come up with a single number that reflects how much money you’d spend before retiring a pc once the hardware gives out. With this innovative new model we can simply forecast the number to be higher or lower, or ideally just leave it blank until we fill it into the spreadsheet at hardware EOL.
- xg15 3y agoBecause a one-time fee isn't a monthly expense but a subscription is - and your budget of monthly recurring payments is much more limited than your budget of one-time payments. > Consider that the normal one time price will only last for as long as you use the Which can be decades if people aren't artificially forced to abandon the os.