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Re:Microsoft pushes ahead with controversial ‘buy now, pay l... by post-it on Friday November 26, 2021 @07:55PM (#29356012)
The TV will still need to update its certificates and work on corporate wifi, so there should always be a way to feed it your own certificate and MITM DNS. I think, anyway.
Re:Microsoft pushes ahead with controversial ‘buy now, pay l... by krisrm on Friday November 26, 2021 @08:00PM (#29356043)
You'll have to pay extra for the "enterprise" TV ;)
Re:Microsoft pushes ahead with controversial ‘buy now, pay l... by Spivak on Friday November 26, 2021 @08:41PM (#29356352)
I mean fine, I’ll gladly pay more just give me the option.
Re:Microsoft pushes ahead with controversial ‘buy now, pay l... by anonymousab on Friday November 26, 2021 @10:54PM (#29357238)
Unfortunately, the "extra" will probably be another 0 on the end of the cost, alongside a minimum order requirement and needing to get the procurement through someone with connections.
Re:Microsoft pushes ahead with controversial ‘buy now, pay l... by mananaysiempre on Saturday November 27, 2021 @10:04AM (#29360673)
This is more or less what happened with Windows 10 editions, as far as I can tell from reading the list.
Re:Microsoft pushes ahead with controversial ‘buy now, pay l... by freeflight on Friday November 26, 2021 @09:35PM (#29356735)
You just fell for the con!
Re:Microsoft pushes ahead with controversial ‘buy now, pay l... by Spivak on Friday November 26, 2021 @11:02PM (#29357287)
But why is it a con though?

Marginal cost of TV is $600, amortized business cost for projected sales is $400, expected average lifetime revenue from user data and ads is $60 ($15/"user"/yr for 5 years which is damn good for an ad network), throw in a 6.3% profit margin and we get TV priced at $999.99.

Throw away the ads and user data collection and up the profit to 10% to make it worth their while (since someone willing to pay more is on average worth more to advertisers and so decreases the value of their network) and we get a TV priced at $1099.99.

This seems totally fair to me.

Re:Microsoft pushes ahead with controversial ‘buy now, pay l... by freeflight on Saturday November 27, 2021 @02:35PM (#29362717)
> But why is it a con though?

The product would work just fine without all the extra monetization, that's how it worked for the longest time. Nobody asked for savings trough selling their privacy, that was very much forced on us, and now they force the upsell to "enterpise privacy edition" as the solution to a problem they themselves introduced.

Re:Microsoft pushes ahead with controversial ‘buy now, pay l... by the_pwner224 on Friday November 26, 2021 @09:02PM (#29356523)
Only until they implement cert pinning, unfortunately.