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Wasn’t this debunked already? Windows will almost certainly not require a subscription. However, certain new AI features might due to server costs; and licensi
by gjsman-1000 3y ago
Wasn’t this debunked already?
Windows will almost certainly not require a subscription. However, certain new AI features might due to server costs; and licensing Windows as a subscription for those features is the only way that makes any sense in an Enterprise. Home users most likely can, and will, use Microsoft Accounts to pay which obviously isn’t an option in a corporate setting.
- Closi 3y agoIt could make sense if Windows had a subscription for enterprise, and they offered things like SaaS-level support for your corporate Windows installs (i.e. I think there is probably a version of this that could provide genuine value to both Microsoft and enterprise customers). Don't think many consumers would stomach the charge, so suspect it would possibly be different on the home side.
- layer8 3y agoThey could integrate the Windows subscription into the existing Microsoft 365 subscription, and then slowly lock down Windows so that it becomes more and more difficult to use it without Microsoft 365, similar to how they make it ever more difficult to use Windows without a Microsoft account. And slowly increase pricing for Microsoft 365, of course. And you get the first year free with a new PC. Otherwise Windows degrades to the Starter edition.
- gruez 3y ago> Wasn’t this debunked already? yep. https://www.neowin.net/news/a-new-report-denies-rumors-of-a-subscription-based-windows-12/ https://www.neowin.net/news/a-new-report-denies-rumors-of-a-...
- tonyhart7 3y agoI mean is already happening in office and I doubt that wouldn't happen to windows they know most consumer wouldn't want to pay it but Enterprise and Pro level consumer ???? uuhhh that where the money come from