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Windows 10 Starts Charging For Missing Features
Forbes ^ | August 5, 2015 | by Gordon Kelly

Posted on 08/06/2015 6:37:30 PM PDT by Swordmaker

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Solitaire? Windows DVD player? Really
1 posted on 08/06/2015 6:37:30 PM PDT by Swordmaker
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To: dayglored; ShadowAce

For your lists. . . Windows 10 will charge subscriptions for services such as Solitaire and Windows DVD Player??? WTF????


2 posted on 08/06/2015 6:38:40 PM PDT by Swordmaker ( This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: Swordmaker

Glad I didn’t install it.


3 posted on 08/06/2015 6:40:34 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: Swordmaker

They are handing the market to other technologies on a silver platter.


4 posted on 08/06/2015 6:42:58 PM PDT by DonaldC (A nation cannot stand in the absence of religious principle.)
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They are handing the market to other technologies on a silver platter.

On an earlier Windows 10 thread I said we should be asking how Microsoft planned on monetizing it. . . here's one way they are going to monetize it.

5 posted on 08/06/2015 6:48:31 PM PDT by Swordmaker ( This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: Swordmaker

Bait and switch....always the way to customer loyalty.


6 posted on 08/06/2015 6:49:17 PM PDT by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The Ends)
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To: Swordmaker

Uh, those are apps, not part of an O/S.


7 posted on 08/06/2015 6:50:23 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current device...)
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Uh, those are apps, not part of an O/S.

Right you are. . . they are apps. Traditionally they have included means of playing such games with the OS and a means of playing a DVD. . . how limited is this? What does MS have in mind? Are they going to be in competition with companies who will build apps to do the same thing utilizing MS's OS? If so, Microsoft will have an advantage because they will know the hidden hooks in the OS.

8 posted on 08/06/2015 6:54:27 PM PDT by Swordmaker ( This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: Swordmaker

Suckers!


9 posted on 08/06/2015 6:56:00 PM PDT by GeronL (Phony Crony Trump is a Chump, Cruz is for real, 100%)
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To: Swordmaker

does anyone remember the days when a customer bought a program for his/her computer and never had to pay another penny?

If you write the program correctly the first time, there is no need for endless updates.

as for viruses, worms, adware, malware simple solution: any computer geek caught writing such a program spends the rest of his/her life in the worst prison we can find.


10 posted on 08/06/2015 6:56:05 PM PDT by txnativegop (Tired of liberals, even a few in my own family.)
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as for viruses, worms, adware, malware simple solution: any computer geek caught writing such a program spends the rest of his/her life in the worst prison we can find.

I prefer the drawing and quartering approach to such punishment. . . then dicing and running them through a meat grinder. Then feed what's left to the hogs. Make sure they NEVER come back!

11 posted on 08/06/2015 6:59:11 PM PDT by Swordmaker ( This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: Swordmaker

Will it charge for downloading games too.... jeesh


12 posted on 08/06/2015 6:59:37 PM PDT by GeronL (Phony Crony Trump is a Chump, Cruz is for real, 100%)
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To: Swordmaker

I like it.


13 posted on 08/06/2015 7:00:25 PM PDT by txnativegop (Tired of liberals, even a few in my own family.)
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To: DonaldC

time to buy some stock’s...


14 posted on 08/06/2015 7:01:30 PM PDT by 1FreeAmerican
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To: jsanders2001

>>Glad I didn’t install it.<<

The return to Win 7 style interface compared to the gawdawful Win 8 tiles is worth it.

These little things will work themselves out soon enough.


15 posted on 08/06/2015 7:01:45 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (When things are rightly ordered, man is steward of God's gifts and civil law enables him to do so.)
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To: Swordmaker

Obviously Microsoft has learned very little over the years.


16 posted on 08/06/2015 7:06:23 PM PDT by Lake Living
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"Microsoft will have an advantage because they will know the hidden hooks in the OS. "

Well, that's not a new competitive advantage used by M$. Excel certainly loads faster than Firefox in XP & Vista.

17 posted on 08/06/2015 7:07:01 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current device...)
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To: freedumb2003

Games...media player....etc.

Plenty of options available out for free, and often times better than what MS provides.


18 posted on 08/06/2015 7:08:43 PM PDT by voicereason (The RNC is like the "One-night stand" you wish you could forget.)
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To: Swordmaker

A good and proper keel-hauling over a barnacle laden hull needs to be packed in there somewhere.


19 posted on 08/06/2015 7:08:58 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current device...)
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To: Swordmaker

Hmm....looks like the trend will force me to decide on which Linux distro to install.


20 posted on 08/06/2015 7:11:56 PM PDT by Shadow44
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