I do wonder how they expect to compete on the home PC market against Android and iOS devices with a subscription that is more expensive than the one time licens

I do wonder how they expect to compete on the home PC market against Android and iOS devices with a subscription that is more expensive than the one time license. As for business, yeah they're probably going to bundle it on MS365 and deal with it. Even for consumers, how many home Windows PC users don't use Office? > I think we'll see a solid 3x increase in the total cost of owning Windows for anyone that keeps their computer for 10 years. That's about where Office got priced. It broke even at about a 3 year lifecycle IIRC, so any individuals or small businesses that ran a longer lifecycle saw a dramatic increase in cost. Maybe they're hoping that a lower initial price will lure in more users? Are the people with longer lifecycle easier to extract higher prices from for some reason?