Microsoft might want to be making Windows 12 a subscription OS, suggests leak

https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/5249637

Microsoft might want to be making Windows 12 a subscription OS, suggests leak - SDF Chatter

They’re too smart to do this …

More likely they will make the base OS free and charge for the premium SaaS features … like they already do with one drive, O365 and game pass

Yeah that seems like the more likely move, have a free tier that starts off decent and a premium tier with ‘power features’ or whatever, and then slowly drift almost everything over to the ‘premium’ tier until in a few years you won’t be able to change your desktop wallpaper without paying. That definitely sounds like the MS way to me.

YUP! And then something like a 1 year free demo when you buy a computer from an OEM … to make sure all the normies get used to it.

Right of the M$ playbook.

I for once can’t wait, it’s going to be a fun dumpster fire to watch

Seems a dumb way to destroy the desktop PC market.

People will feel scammed that after one year everything needs a subscription, will dump that shit on eBay, prices will crash, and the market will be dominated by iPads with mouse and keyboards