Wow — That is DUMB.
If they put me in charge of MS I doubt I could do worse, despite having zero formal training on business.
They will lose some of the customers that they aren’t making money off of anyway, and convert the rest to an income stream. A lot of folks only change operating systems when they get a new computer. Since MS isn’t making much from the manufacturers initial install, any model is likely to produce a greater income stream than the historic one did.
“Wow — That is DUMB.”
It’ll be downright fatal if this is the model they plan to adopt for home users. I can see it being of great benefit in the business world.
If this pricing model does migrate to the home, they had better have a one time charge or else I’m 99% Linux in the future (I’ll keep a Win10 VM for some CAD tools that I know aren’t migrating to Linux anytime soon).