Posted on 07/14/2016 12:34:33 PM PDT by upchuck
For months Microsoft has been describing Windows 10 “as a service” and now we know why. Microsoft is going to introduce a monthly subscription fee for Windows 10 usage…
That cost will be $7 per user per month but the good news is it only applies to enterprises, for now. The new pricing tier will be called “Windows 10 Enterprise E3” and it means Windows has finally joined Office 365 and Azure as a subscription service.
Of course the big question is now: How does this new subscription pricing affect the millions of consumers who upgraded to Windows 10 on the promise of it being free?
The good news is Microsoft has gone on record to say it is not being passed down to consumers at this stage: “This new subscription model is not associated with our current upgrade offering or applicable to the Windows 10 consumer edition,” a Microsoft spokesperson told PC World.
Could Microsoft eventually introduce Windows 10 monthly subscriptions for consumers? Without doubt, but I would be highly sceptical they would apply to anyone who has already upgraded. That said there is likely to be a threshold in future where Microsoft will draw a line in the sand for the ongoing addition of new features without a fee.
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I don’t believe there is one.
A small learning curve.
Main problem is formatting won’t be perfect if you try to open it up in Microsoft Excel.
But the that’s due to proprietary Microsoft format.
Microsoft Office can’t read odt. docs without a converter.
We didn’t intend to upgrade - one day we were trying to use the computer and it started upgrading on its own. I’m sure we did something but it’s a mystery as to what we did.
Me too. MS won’t get another dime from me.
Bump!
Me too.
Many major corporation have already been doing this for years. They purchase a number of license for a yearly fee.
What hardware are you talking about? Literally NOTHING I have bought in the last 10 years has any trouble with Linux, Windoz, on the other hand, has tops of problems. Wrong drivers, not reognized by the OS, needs special software not native to the OS.,etc, etc.
Keep spouting that MS BS, because your boss is telling you to?
IBM has been doing this for years and years and years.
But with IBM, you actually get a service - if you have an OS or a PP (Program Product), they pretty much guarantee it will continue working. Even if you upgrade software or hardware.
Internally Windows has a much better architecture for inter-process communication.
MS will stop supporting 7 in 3 years.
Thanks
This may be the future of the music industry too. Paying monthly or yearly for the ability to play commercial music. Maybe different services or tiers depending on the market for that music. (Old show tunes, classical, etc might all have smaller fees than hot pop singles and might be on a different service, or various services could have tiers of payment like subscription cable.
Time to start the serious research. Only three years to migrate to Linux.
“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).
Can you run Adobe Photoshop for photo editing or Vegas Pro for Video Editing using Linux in a native environment?
Others will come here to complain about the SaaS pricing model but it works for me. Better than the old way of purchasing the expensive software and only having the one license that had to be installed by disc.
“Time to start the serious research. Only three years to migrate to Linux. “
Everyone’s needs are different, but if you need web access and office, linux is there. Linux has a mythos of being difficult to setup and such, but it has come a long way.
I have seen lots of small businesses go Mac and just get office for Mac. It is kinda the best of both worlds that way.
For use in a large enterprise though, Windows is there for a reason, that being easily managed in large numbers.
It will be interesting how this turns out.
Actually besides allowing you to smugly troll online forums because you are using the latest thing, what does Windows 10,8,7,Vista do that XP didn't?
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