No, you are going to pay all the monthly subscriptions at once up front before you buy the laptop. It will work like this average laptop life span is say 42 mo

No, you are going to pay all the monthly subscriptions at once up front before you buy the laptop. It will work like this average laptop life span is say 42 months, and the monthly fee is $1.50. So the cost of a windows license is 42 * $1.50 = $66 which is baked into the price of the laptop. Microsoft will use more accurate numbers but the concept is unchanged.