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Microsoft Confirms $1.50 Windows Security Update Hotpatch Fee Starts July 1
- Terr_ 1y ago> Windows Server 2025 Over on the consumer side, I'd rather pay $1.50 to permanently regain full control over when the computer I own reboots for updates. (Yes yes, insert Use Linux Joke here.)
- jll29 1y agoThis is genious, whoever came up with it! Imagine doing that in pharma also: you pay a regular monthly fee for the side effects of the medical drugs you took (caused by the pharma company, not by you).
- otterley 1y agoThis is literally the plot context of a recent Black Mirror episode. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt30127325/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt30127325/
- greyadept 1y agoI would hate to be the Microsoft account manager having to explain this fee to a CIO. Especially when Linux kernel livepatch is free.
- jerlam 1y agoGoes hand in hand with the paid Microsoft Extended Security Updates service for "legacy" operating systems.
- euroderf 1y agoChiselers.
- brutal_chaos_ 1y agoGet ready to see a lot more hotfixes...
- hulitu 1y ago> Get ready to see a lot more hotfixes... Will they actually fix Windows bugs ? They don't do this for suported Windows versions.
- supportengineer 1y agoObligatory "I'm gonna write myself a new minivan this afternoon"
- a_void_sky 1y agoincentivizing themselves for building a broken system, you can do anything if you have a majority of market share
- mystified5016 1y agoPretty ballsy for Microsoft to charge a subscription fee for a feature that Linux has had for decades. I don't expect this to go well for them.
- Oneword 1y ago[flagged]
- peltoche 1y agoSerious question: what windows does/does better than Linux that can explain be ready to pay for using their server softwares?