Back to Windows after twenty years

Re:Back to Windows after twenty years by smacktoward on Monday November 04, 2019 @03:58PM (#21446440)

They are solving Microsoft's problem, which is that they are frustrated they only get paid by this customer one time every five years. They would much rather this customer pay them every month ad infinitum or lose access to Windows altogether, which is what the whole push of Windows 10 towards "Windows as a service" is about.

But it'll take a long time to wear people down to the point where they'll accept renting their operating system, so in the meantime they're hungry for any other way to have Windows bring in extra revenue above that one-time $200 -- which is where things like Candy Crush ads in the Start menu, intrusive and inescapable data mining, etc. etc. etc. come from.

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Re:Back to Windows after twenty years by jdjdjjsjs on Monday November 04, 2019 @05:15PM (#21447140)

If the payments is the issue then MS chose a really terrible solution considering upgrades are free for the life of the device which is usually far greater than the cadence of paid upgrades in the past.

I agree it's solving MS's problem, but the problem it's solving is the need for MS to support 10+ years of OSes at any given time.

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