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Billiam Oct 6, 2023

Windows 12 May Require a Subscription

Windows 12 May Require a Subscription - Lemmy.world

[A]n INI configuration file in the Windows Canary channel, discovered by German website Deskmodder, includes references to a “Subscription Edition,” “Subscription Type,” and a “subscription status.”

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q47tx Oct 6, 2023

Microsoft would really help Linux out if they did this.

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ColeSloth Oct 6, 2023

There might be a subscription option or a subscription tier with a windows suite like office and stuff included in it, but for normal windows OS, they’re decades away from going to a subscription only model, at best.

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cmbabul Oct 6, 2023

I imagine they’ll split it into an enterprise version and then multiple cinsuner tiers, with a “free/lite” version with ads and progressively more function or less ads. Folks that dont use a computer for more than web browsing will jump on that

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Norgur Oct 6, 2023

might as well be that they change their licensing model for businesses to some sort of Subscription. The resale of volume keys has been a pain in their butt for a long time.

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cmbabul

That honestly makes sense B2B, wouldn’t hate that as a policy but I do dislike it on the consumer front. But I’ll never use windows personally again so I really only care for how it affects the rest of the computing world