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>free for basic usage, paid for commercial usage And lose all the OEM license money?

• relativeadv 10mo ago
  won't someone think of the shareholders?
• al_borland 10mo ago
  Windows is now less than 10% of their revenue, last I saw. I think Windows is more valuable to keep people in the Microsoft ecosystem, than as a source of direct revenue.
• wlesieutre 10mo ago
  Do they make more money from OEM licenses, or from bombarding Windows users with OneDrive and Copilot 365 advertisements?
  • ProllyInfamous 10mo ago
    What if it's actually the AI-derived "user profile," sold to advertisers/govts, after their mandatory bot scans all your drive. Just hypothetically... of course they're not actually doing this? ---- Anywho, doesn't matter cause my Xeon went from Windows 10 to Linux, this year. Still rocking a Win7Pro Core2Duo (as my second favorite machine).
• guidedlight 10mo ago
  Perhaps Microsoft plans to bundle Windows into its "Microsoft 365" subscription for the consumer market.