4 ms·
But is it sold enough to regular Windows Home users? If MS brings an ultimatum: "you need to buy AI services to use Windows", they might get a bunch more cluele
by type0 10mo ago
But is it sold enough to regular Windows Home users? If MS brings an ultimatum: "you need to buy AI services to use Windows", they might get a bunch more clueless subscribers. In the same way as there's no ability to set up Windows without internet connection and MS account they could make it mandatory to subscribe to Copilot.
- N19PEDL2 10mo agoI think Microsoft's long-term plan is exactly that: to make Windows itself a subscription product. Windows 12 Home for $4.99 a month, Copilot included. It will be called OSaaS.
- amlib 10mo agoI think you wrote Ass OS wrong :)
- danny_codes 10mo agoImagine subscribing to an OS when Linux exists.
- add-sub-mul-div 10mo ago> In the same way as there's no ability to set up Windows without internet connection and MS account Not true. They're clearly unwilling or unable to remove this code path fully, or they would have done so by now. There's just a different workaround for it every few years.
- snoman 10mo agoThere’s probably some compliance requirement that it’s technically possible to set it up without an internet connection, so they leave it there, but make it unreasonably difficult for a majority to do it.
- type0 10mo agoI wrote about Windows Home, they sure can divert the code further and lock it down completely. The same probably can't be done for Pro version unless they want to break Group Policy