BilliamWindows 12 May Require a Subscription
q47txMicrosoft would really help Linux out if they did this.
VeedemFor the average consumer, this would help Apple and Google out more than anything. People want what they know.
On the more savvy user side and for gamers, this move would, potentially, help Linux adoption rates.
Yup, Chromebooks are already cheap and pretty intuitive, I think this will bump their sales a lot. I’ve ditched windows long ago except for my gaming PC and the PCs at my office (I don’t have a say in those though, I just much prefer Linux
BuelldozerYup, Chromebooks are already cheap and pretty intuitive, I think this will bump their sales a lot.
Won’t matter to Microsoft at all. You’ll use your Chromebook to connect your Windows 365 Cloud PC . They’ll add it to the Microsoft Family Plan, same one that has MS Office in it, for free when its introduced and then slowly raise the price as people get embedded into it.
Flying SquidChromebooks generally encourage you to use Google’s family of office apps. So I don’t know about that.
It’ll be a legal battle where MS will claim Google’s closed ecosystem as a monopoly and force them to carry the “MS Cloud PC App” in the Play Store. Or you’ll just go buy a “WinBook” made by HP, Dell, Lenovo, etc…
And tablets, which most people seem to be using these days.
cm0002For the average consumer, this would help Apple and Google out more than anything. **People want what they know. **
Exactly, which is with this will probably work, do you really think the average consumer that’s used to Windows is going to switch to Mac when they can just pay 5$/month instead? Lol
As long as the price isn’t ridiculous like 50$/month or some shit, the average consumer is just going to pay it lolol
FranklinYeah the only people whose minds this will change are agnostic techies
To start, I don’t think it’ll be a “subscribe or else” type deal. My assumption would be something like a forced S mode unless you subscribe.
Second, people won’t jump right away. To start, word will get around and they’ll simply not update. Then, when it comes time to buy a new computer, the average user will be possibly swayed to look at entry level MB Airs (They often go on sale for like $750) or Chromebooks.
The people who will get really pissed will be power users and gamers who will be forced to shell out money to get back features they had in previous versions of the OS.
nik0Honestly, I don’t even think it’ll be S mode. Just Home really and for pro users they’ll end up with the subscription model
It would help all of their competitors. A non zero number of people would move from windows to each of the others.
Whether or not the number moving away from windows and on to each of the others is significant or not is a different matter.
The biggest thing helping Linux right now is Valve’s work improving the gaming experience, IMO.
Fucking thank you. What the fuck is with human beings and this “all or nothing” attitude? Is it new or has it always been this way? I see it across every damn subsection of humanity but especially in diet and exercise but computing too with this shit here and “everyone needs to abandon reddit and twitter for mastodon and lemmy!” like – no, we can go slowly. MS can hit a jugular and bleed out but you can bleed out from internal bleeding or a thousand paper cuts too.
Even the rumor of this makes Valve’s focus on Linux seem that much smarter.
I’ve never used Linux but if Microsoft goes subscription I’m out and I’ll be learning Linux.
NGL PopOs is easy and the works with steam/most things easily.
I really hope Windows doesn’t go subscription based because of the proliferation of ads.
PHLAKI’ve been meaning to install Linux on my primary gaming PC but haven’t yet due to laziness. This would 100% get me to pull the trigger if/when I ever had to upgrade/reinstall.