[dayglored]

Very interesting....

[dayglored]

Surface as a Service ... PING!

You can find all the Windows Ping list threads with FR search: just search on keyword "windowspinglist".

[usconservative]

Brilliant!!!

I’m liking this Satya Nardella guy more and more.

[dayglored]

Used to be, with a Windows computer, you owned your hardware, and you owned your FOSS software (assuming you had some), but you "licensed" your Microsoft software for restricted operation.

Now you won't even own the hardware. It's sorta like renting the entire computer. (Assuming you consider Surface a computer as such, not just a tablet.)

There's probably a market for this, given the relatively rapid turnover of hardware today, compared to years ago when you kept the same hardware around for more than 3 years...

[dayglored]

So at the end of your rental/lease/subscription period, you return the Surface to Microsoft or your local dealer you got it from.

How do you guarantee that you removed all your private information from it?

You don't want them reading it, and you don't want the next person who rents/leases/subscribes the hardware you had reading it... I wonder how they guarantee privacy?

Who ya gonna trust?

[RegulatorCountry]

If you do the math, I’m certain it’s cheaper to buy outright. But, there are always people who don’t have the money who will lease. There are others who just want to keep current hardware with a replacement warranty, with cost being secondary.

[dayglored]

The Surface Configurator

[upchuck]

Somewhere down the road MSFT will offer everything they have on a rental basis. Imagine Windows 10 as a Service :)