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Windows 12 May Require a Subscription (www.pcmag.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[A]n INI configuration file in the Windows Canary channel, discovered by German website Deskmodder, includes references to a "Subscription Edition," "Subscription Type," and a "subscription status."

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[–] [email protected] 164 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (17 children)

I don't believe for one bit that windows will move to a pure subscription based model. They are greedy, but not stupid.

What's more believable is that the base OS will be the same as usual, but if you want fancy AI assistants in your OS, you must subscribe, with the justification being that MS must pay for the servers running the models you're using.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

I agree, corpo world is already 100% in subscription mode and consumers buy windows through OEM. If you buy OEM laptop, how would you sell subscription windows with it? I see it as a no go, it would force OEM laptops to be sold with Linux.

If you sell updates through subscription, you would end up in 2000's when malwares infected the whole internet with non-patched windows machines. This hurts your PR so poorly that I don't think they are that stupid.

Of course they are thinking their ass off how they could convert consumers to subscription, but I don't see way to do it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The article addresses literally all of your points. Installing windows would be free for oems so it's actually good for them, and MS would probably offer a free tier with ads for end users who don't want to pay.

To me that's completely believable and sounds exactly like something MS would do.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Probably AD free+AI features are behind subscription, and in sense I would be Ok with it.

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