They certainly wouldn’t roll it out overnight but they’ve had their long term targets on OS as a service since Windows 8 and these things tend to come bundled.
They certainly wouldn’t roll it out overnight but they’ve had their long term targets on OS as a service since Windows 8 and these things tend to come bundled.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 2 weeks ago
Nah, they know their limits. They will keep trying to make an optional locked down OS for regular users a thing, but there will always be a fully “unlocked” version available due to legacy software and the entire worlds reliance on it.
untorquer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
While microsoft also plays in the quarter to quarter economic BS they still have long term planning.
It’s precisely because they have a monopoly on enterprise class software that they could pull this off. That’s why the shift in euro-gov agencies to linux is such a big deal. They’re already have windows insider which requires an azure sub and updates as a service which means they already use the threat of “security risks” to force companies to subscribe to azure.
I’m suggesting that they’re going to do what they’ve said they want to do.
The biggest motivation they have to keep individual licenses OTP is it gets people used to the ecosystem (customer capture) and they’re massively profiting on all of
yourthat data.FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 week ago
Making their is subscription based is not what we’re talking about though. We’re talking about it becoming locked down and only running signed and approved software like Android is going to do.
That fundamentally breaks windows for most of the corporate world. Literally would break the world as we know it lol.