Everything is turning into disgusting subscription services. Most recently I saw home printers that required a monthly subscription service in order to print.
So, how long before Windows is a subscription? They have already brought ads into Windows.
Yes, I think I’ll sign up for the…hm, the “Casual Gamer” tier, which allows 2 hours per week of gaming. Although I could always watch an ad to unlock 30 more minutes.
It already is.
For years, I was predicting that the TPM 2.0 requirement for 11 was going to mean that Microsoft would end up extending the security update end-of-life for years, just like they ended up doing with Windows 7.
However, what I didn’t predict was that instead of making that available to everyone like they did with 7, they’re now going to make consumers pay for the benefit of continued security updates on Windows 10. They’re just using it as an opportunity to demand more money.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/whats-new/extended-security-updates
They used to only charge organizations for this, now they’ve decided the regular users have gotta pay, too.