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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Linux Mint and OpenOffice.
MicroShiz can kiss my azz.
The company I am at has over 5,000 pc’s
5,000 x $7 = $35,000 every month = $245,000 a year. Several people would need to fired or not hired because of the cost.
We are using Windows 7 and I expect we will for many more years.
Microsoft will of course raise the price.
Yeah, M$FT is leaving more and more of us behind. I recently upgraded from XP (which I loved) to Win 7. First thing I did in 7 was turn off MSFT updates. No Win 10 for me.
Lots of discussion on this thread about Linux and its various flavors. Time to do some research.
I’m doing the same. I MUST use IE 11 for my business purposes... the virtual machine under Linux works great!
I bought Office 2016 for $30 that includes the cd. One time purchase.
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Thanks, I’ll give it a try.
If you want to control the operating system, you’ll have to upgrade to Linux at some point. And if it is critical enough, you’ll have to compile the kernel yourself.
One SAAS to rule them all. One SAAS to find them,
One SAAS to bring them all and in the cloud bind them.
Linux has Wine a windows compatibility layer. You install Wine and then install most any Windows application. Wine can be complex but an adjunct tool called Play on Linux automates configuring Wine for specific applications (and often the installation).
If you can’t get it to work under Wine, install VirtualBox and create a Windows 7 VM.
The hardware support under Linux is far more extensive than Windows with one glaring exception, graphics cards. Otherwise you’re statement is incorrect. And yes, there is some frustrating things about Linux but when that happens I just sit back and think about how much I’m paying for the OS ... oh right ... I’m not. I’m a 30 year veteran of Windows software development and my personal machines at home are Ubuntu flavors. I play games, check office mail, make phone calls and have online meetings on my Kubuntu desktop. No fuss. And my older Nvidia card is supported.
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Thanks
I will look into it. Thanks.
Me too.
I now use Corel on my (few) Windows boxes and Affinity Designer on my Macs. While not as totally feature filled as the Adobe products, they do what I need them to do for A LOT less.
This is exactly why I finally made the total move to Fedora Linux. Plus no constant virus threat. Add in MariaDB, FreeCad, Blender, Netbeans, Java, LibreOffice, Audacity, Gimp, etc. And I am free at last!
I was a network admin in the dark ages (remember Y2K?). Your points as to hardware support etc. are well made. I have an old HP laptop with a bios that looks for windows on the internal hard drive. If it doesn’t see the expected Windows boot drive, it returns an error code and goes on strike. I boot Linux on an external usb hard drive which the Bios supports only if it sees the Windows drive first.
I am so tired of MicroSoft and am glad to be free of my old admin job. Windows is more internally integrated and does the job in a large company with the need for predictable IT budgets. I love Linux Mint because it works on my desktop and is pretty turn-key at this point. Linux does require a different mind set from Windows, but it is far more mature than it was even 6 years ago.
“Can you run Adobe Photoshop for photo editing or Vegas Pro for Video Editing using Linux in a native environment?”
I use Gimp and Blender. I’m sure they aren’t as polished, but they are steadily improving (as is all the Linux stack). Short term, windows is better, but if you are thinking legacy past 5 years, why would you stick with an expensive fossil? I will save $thousands over that time period.
Maybe the “consumer fee” would drive many to check out Linux? Sure, it may not be for everyone, but ditching Microsoft and subscription spyware....
So they force an “upgrade” on you - in reality a new product - and now they want monthly payments for it.
MS always has been slimy.
you can even run windows 10 in a VM- you can download the iso and run it (you’ll get a stupid ‘activate windows now” tag down by hte clock, but there is a way to stop that without activating- I run windows 10 in a virtual machine just fine to do my adobe photoshop work on- i use linux for everything else- and don’t allow my VM to access the Internet
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