• SuiXi3D@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Right, but I meant a service in the traditional sense, like trains or food stamps or whatever. Windows is so ubiquitous with operating a PC at this point, and they’ve literally given it away for free for so long at this point that if they start charging a subscription for it nobody’s gonna go along with it. Microsoft’ll be in the same position they are now, but they’ll lose a lot of money implementing this BS.

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      1 year ago

      Who isnt going to go along with it?

      Gotta be like 90% of people have never installed an OS because Windows was already on their PC when they bought it.

      To them, its part of buying a PC. They don't consider the OS a separate purchase.

      If they make this move they're banking on people not noticing until after they've bought a shiny new PC. After that most people will suffer the cost because they already own the PC and its just "easier."