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CW: With DaaS Windows coming, say goodbye to your PC as you know it (for Enterprise customers)
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Even when it's pure speculation in an opinion piece about something that will never affect anyone on here?
Lmao... I'm sure he wont be seen around these parts for a while.
TBH, I'd be pretty OK with some kind of managed "Windows as a Service" for my less-computer-literate family members who get me to build PC's for them, but then balk at the cost of Windows/Office and want to pirate it or dig out their old XP + Office 2000 discs. Being able to say to them "hey just pay this small annual fee and you'll get full OS, Office, some cloud storage and support", and the knowledge that I won't get random support calls because they've broken something, I'd go for it. It's not something I'd ever use myself, but it would save me drama if it were an option for others.
Sure, it's purely hypothetical now, but such a concept could have some use in the consumer space.
Sure, it's purely hypothetical now, but such a concept could have some use in the consumer space.
Just in general. My work is almost 100% Microsoft products and services related and it's so often that when Microsoft think they know 'whats best for you' it leads to a headache.
Makes sense for business environments I guess. Not my area of knowledge but concept seems sound and presumerably looks to offset maintenance costs vs subscription.
Another bunch of workers will lose jobs though as that's where the bulk of cost savings would be I'd presume.
Another bunch of workers will lose jobs though as that's where the bulk of cost savings would be I'd presume.
Actually this topic is about some clickbait from ComputerWorld that said that microsoft is coming for your desktop also with the recommendation to turn off automatic updating.
As the truth of the clickbait came through the thread title was renamed because it was about microsoft's enterprise offering.
My point about talking about games was to counter how hard linux is to use and using it as an example of a common bit of software that most on this site would know (steam)
Then you come along multiquoting everyone to tell us how dumb people are for having a different conversation.
But it's a lie! Windows is a lying OS made by lying liars.
The title, even after the update, is completely fake. Discarding the ridiculous assumptions that this affects gamers or end users in general, Enterprise users wont be "forced" to nothing. This is for a very specific, already existing type of corporate users that use thin clients like Citrix. And I can tell you, as a former Citrix user, this is nothing but great news. Citrix is the worst thing that can happen to you in a corporation, specially if you live far from US and you cannot even type a character in notepad without noticeable input lag.
What an odd comment. MS could never get people to move to a subscription based Windows today, plus current versions of Windows already have dedicated support for many more years (by MS), hence my informed opinion.
But it does suck that some day this could potentially become a thing on home PCs.
So, NO, it isn't possible today. Can you imagine if MS rolled out a subscription based OS when users got a supported non-sub alternative until 2025 minimum (Windows 10)?
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For their mental health they should probably administrate something else than - I often have frustration with Microsoft (especially lately with their patching being on fire) but i don't hate their systems - would make my job very unhappy
They are bizarre in a discussion about what is an enterprise feature and has nothing to do with consumer software ownership
Yeah this thread is laughable. OP should catch a warning for this dumb shit
Depends solely on how they do it. If every new PC instead of an OEM copy of Win 10 comes with 12 months sub to Windows there really is not much choice. And then roll out new features to the sub first. If I could get a Windows sub for say $50 a year and have a current version for all our four Windows PCs and laptops in the household, I would probably jump in. Bundle it with Office365 for $100 a year and I am there day 1. Saving money while always having the newest version is great.
I think they'll have to wait until Win 11, because even dumb people can see that >5 years of support for $100 or $200 is better than $100 a year.
At that point they'll do the OEM thing.
If they're wise, they'll do "6 years for $200 / OEM" or so, but that'll be a hard deadline. It won't be an option if you don't keep paying.
After that they'll have normalized mandatory subscriptions to the OS.
I don't know, I think there's plenty of users that would benefit from a device being kept clean and up to date.
I think it should definitely be offered as an option to consumers (specially if they lease the hardware as Mary Jo reported), never the only option though.
Can you elaborate on the connection between gaming and an enterprise product that has nothing to do with gaming?
This thread has run its course with discussion. If more information about DaaS and it's enterprise features comes out. Feel free to make a thread on the ETC side.
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