EPIC BAIT AND SWITCH - MS to start charging for Windows 10 'Subscriptions'

>A file named "UpgradeSubscription.exe" is found buried in the System32 folder of Windows 10 build 14376. ZDNet reports the file has been recently uncovered.

>"In the file's properties, it's described as the Windows Upgrade to Subscription Tool, and its date and time stamp corresponds to other administrative tools in the same build," reports ZDNet.

>The presence of that file is certain to ignite speculation among conspiracy theorists who were convinced in the run-up to the initial release of Windows 10 that the year-long free upgrade offer would turn into some sort of paid subscription.

Remember cucks, there's no downgrading to Win8/7 now. Enjoy your lifetime of giving monthly payments to MS for keeping Windows 10

You are implying we have a problem with this.

If Netflix can charge a subscription, why not Microsoft?

Ultimately it depends on how limited the "free" version is.

stay cucked pleb

everyone has a problem with this, shill.

everyone will just switch to linux, except for PC Gaymurs, you can always count on their anuses to be ripe, ready, and wide open for the microsoft dick

Shut the fuck up.

I'll just format and install win 7 again. No worries mate.

> Not sticking with 7/8.1
Why would anyone downgrade to 10?

> inb4 muh linux
Some of us have work to do and can't waste time tinkering with a ricer os.

Still got my windows 7 license.
I really wish I didn't like video games.

99% chance that gaming will be their target...notice how focused on gaming M$ is & how they r making x1 games exclusive to w10

for gaming you will need subscription

Your Windows 7 license is no longer valid if you have used it to upgrade to Win10

Untrue. You can call up and they err in your favor

>is certain to ignite speculation
m8 what. we called this shit like a year ago already

>I'll just format and install win 7 again

That's fine.

Windows 7 will be equivalent to the free subscription of Windows 10. You can stay poor. :)

Tfs syndrome

He think m$ such a evil but he use smartphone

>m$
wao so edgy!

I hope no one seriously believes this

Source?

win8.1 key will expire soon.
What do?

>subscribe to use the worst OS any company has ever shat out
kek

We ALL knew it was coming

The Apple MacBook Pro with Retina Display doesn't have this problem.

Daz loader + windows 7.

>hardware doesn't have a software problem
I'm getting really sick of your shitposting

Where can I purchase this Apple MacBook Pro with Retina Display™

>all these poorfags ITT
lmao @ your life cucks
fucking kys

ZDNet. It says it right in the OP

>>>/global/rules/3

Once you have upgraded your Win7 system to Windows 10, your Win7 license gets 'subsumed' into the Windows 10 license. It can no longer be used to install Windows 7 as it is no longer valid.

>currently sitting on Windows 7 installation disk
>about to use it for gaymen build
>tried "upgrading" to 8.1 with a different key and automatically started installing botmeme 10
all i want is to look at titties in a sports car and be able to start it from a tile, what do

u mad?

Where are you getting this?

Let's assume that what that user said is true, what's stopping me from using an activator for w7?

The objective fact remains that the Apple MacBook Pro with Retina Display doesn't have this problem.

I don't know... Botnet included in the activator?

It does if you install Windows 10

Nothing. Also it's not true. Only thing the license prevents is that you can't have 7 with that license and 10 you upgraded from in use at the same time. I don't know if using both at the same time deactivates the other or what but that's the most it does.

One update that you will have to remove, other than that, nothing can stop you.

DAZ loader can't be detected

>I don't know if using both at the same time deactivates the other or what but that's the most it does.
It does. I pirated both in a multiboot setup, upon clean installation and activation of windows 10 I had to re-run the windows loader for 7 afterwards.

Except for the one update Microsoft pushed out that cripples daz loader, which you can just remove.

Been able to pirate Win 7, use a keygen and still get updates for many years now. The license is completely meaningless.

Same for Win 10 btw. Who the fuck pays for Windows.

>install win8.1 with clean iso (you may need to modify it to enable trial mode, google it)
>activate with Microsoft Toolkit (be careful where you download it from)
>disable automatic updating
>hide all botnet and win10 updates and install all others
>install classic shell to get rid of metroshit

congrats you now have the best version of windows available

have been running this setup for a year and a half with no problems

>EPIC BAIT AND SWITCH
How retarded are you? do you work for buzzfeed?

Everyone with a previously original key with get to keep it, stop pandering to retards with your retardness.

Which one? I've been using it for years and installed every update and it's still fine.

KB971033 broke some old version of daz

2.2.2 on piratebay works fine

>Mystery file in preview build hints at Windows 10 subscriptions
>By Ed Bott for The Ed Bott Report | June 30, 2016

>Windows 10 subscriptions aren't happening. Here's why
>By Ed Bott for The Ed Bott Report | February 6, 2016

"The Windows Upgrade to Subscription tool, found in the latest Windows Insider builds, helps to manage certain volume licensing upgrades from Windows 10 Pro Anniversary Update to Windows 10 Enterprise. This binary file is not associated with the free consumer upgrade offering nor is it applicable to consumer Windows editions."

Nice try.

Anything that isn't the official source is assumed compromised. You need to bail on that Windows installation ASAP senpai.

Microsoft has been saying they were moving towards subscription since they launched Azure and Windows 7.

Really isn't surprising, they will eventually include LTE service as part of the subscription cost to try and act as a middle man between you and your ISP to jew you out of even more money.

>what is MSToolkit
:^^^^)

BOTNETFAGS ON SUICIDE WATCH

8.1 is botnet too? Only win7 is safe? dual-boot, need windows for rare gayming.

>literally paying to be datamined

It's in 7 and 8 too but in their cases in 7 you have to allow it separately and 8 just tap out and it respects that

"Official source" requires you to participate in various offers to allow you to download it

>everyone will just switch to linux
user...

thanks! so the lastest still usable win is 8.1

installgentoo?

>m-muh subscription
>implying there won't be a KMS activator if that happens
enjoy your 0% market share OS freetards

>>A file named "UpgradeSubscription.exe" is found buried in the System32 folder of Windows 10 build 14376
>system32 folder
>system 32
I've been telling ya'll niggas to delete this folder for YEARS but did you ever listen to me? No! It's your own damn fault you're going to have to pay to use Windows.

>install gentoo
>install windows 7/8 in vm
>don't install any updates

*audible kek*

Top kek, there's a shitload of software now that requires Win10 only and literally nothing is stopping M$ from paying software/game companies to make their products win10 exclusives and then you're pretty much fucked, I doubt that most people would bother trying to get their shit working on a pre win 10 system, so they'll just buy win 10 subscription and stay cucked for the rest of their life and you would have the choice of using outdated software on your win 7 system or becoming cucked.

Dirty fucking kikes. When's Linux going to become a viable option for gaming?

KEKED
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Enjoy your malware made by pajeet kumar

This year™

didnt do nuffin

B O T N E T
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Right after users finally start pouring in and developers see it's worth the cost.

So maybe in 2030

So I really think this would be good time to start looking into this linux-business

MS was stupid under Ballmer, but under Nadella, it's turned smarter and just plain skeevy.

So glad I left that shit ten years ago.

>MS charges for Win10 subscriptions
>people rage and migrate to other OS and older versions of Windows
>MS "buckles down" by promising lower subscription fees, first year for free and free 3 month subscription of Office 365
>people go back
The Microsoft cycle.

Install Ubuntu if you want Linux made simple
>B-b-but spyware controversy
Unity only. Install a spin like xubintu.

Using win 10 LTSB, and I dont have this shit.

ITS_HAPPENING.jpg

year, no, millenium of the Linux desktop!

WE WILL RIDE ETERNAL, SHINY AND CHROME

>what is formatting and reinstalling w7

You better reinstall now before your key is locked with Windows 10

>there's no downgrading to Win8/7 now
Sure there is. If Microsoft starts charging a subscription for things I need that Windows 7 or 8.1 has then I'll downgrade then. Not that they will. That big scary .exe is used when you upgrade to Enterprise. I swear the tinfoil hats around here must be cutting off blood flow.

Stay poor, kiddo. I realize it's hard for you to ask your parents to pay for your shit.

Because it's in a insider preview build

Microsoft already have a bunch of subscription products, Office 365 being the biggest one.

Not that I have any proof, but I'd think this would be a tool to upgrade the pre-packaged retail version of Office to Office 365, or the pre-installed OEM trial version to a full Office 365 subscription.

There's zero indication Microsoft are planning to make Windows some kind of subscription product, it hasn't been a significant profit driver for them for over a decade, they're just going to charge for new licences and stop the free upgrades on July 29th.

C U C K E D
A G A I N
W I N C U C K S

>Some of us have work to do
This is exactly why I'm using Linux though?
What are you, some mindless office drone who has to fill in data into excel spreadsheets?

There are VMs for that

This doesn't happen and never will happen.

microsoft making people pay for windows via a subscription, would be the end of them as every single trade commision, and consumer rights, groups would sue the shit out of them, microsoft would be better sticking to hardware, OEM subscriptions, and enterprise,as they all obviously make more than windows licenses.

Windows 10 is giant malware fuckfest so what fucking choices is there.

Windows 7, Linux Mint, etc..

I love it. Every time a new build of Windows 10 comes out, fucking Lincucks have to put down their asthma inhalers and run off to find some MYSTERIOUS FILE and/or registry key/setting that definitely 100% proves Windows 10 is taking photos of your desktop, is sending actual personal files back to them, or will turn into a pay-for-play walled garden/digital jail, and all your old Windows license keys will crumble to dust. I'm never going to run out of popcorn at this rate.

>implying this wasn't known years ago
there's a presentation that microsoft showed to investors where they talk about forecasted subscription revenue from windows 10

>>they want an OS with a long support life
>>expect MS to pay for security upgrades for decades
kek

>PB

Whyyyy mane

Go to the mydigitallife forums

If it pleases them. Let them.

It pleases me too, but only in a "I enjoy watching histrionic nerds hyperventilate over nothing in a product they don't even use" kind of way.

>people are ACTUALLY DEFENDING THIS SHIT
YOU CANNOT MAKE THIS SHIT UP

>Some of us have work to do
Sure thing.

>Windows 7 license

They are called wincuckolds for a very good reason

>downloaded it from thepiratebay
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA