WINDOWS 10 OFFICIALLY BECOMES SUBSCRIPTION-BASED

2017 CONFIRMED THE YEAR OF BSD ON THE DESKTOP!!!

forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2016/07/14/microsoft-confirms-windows-10-new-monthly-charge/#25a5907dfab3

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>Linking to Forbes

pcworld.com/article/3094785/windows/yes-windows-10-subscriptions-are-coming-at-least-for-enterprise.html

its like they want everyone to support open source.

>enterprise
>E N T E R P R I S E
Stop fucking lying OP

>at least for enterprise
Nothing wrong with that, there're quite some OSs with subscriptions (but annualy). Call me when this applies to customer version.

Microsoft already offers Windows as a service for enterprise clients (much like it does Office 365), and we already had news of a subscription concept that was being patched in, so this is not surprising at all.

7 bucks a month per user does seem excessive, though.

What the fuck? I already gave these dirty kikes 130 euros. They can go eat shit.
Cup of coffee and a donut, my ass. Please fucking die, you Starbucks techno hipster scum.

fuck, it's been a while since the last bsd general!
Sup Forums really became the fusion of Sup Forums and Sup Forums, what a shame.

I bought fucking w7 for $100, $7 a month is disgusting.

Enterprise you buffoon. Stop with the clickbaity shitposts

GREAT NEWS!!!

The storm is over now, GUYS!! look!!! the sunrise, birds, dolphins, trees hugging each other. the planet earth is saved!

Why buy a license for $50 and use it for 4 years if you can spend $336 in monthly payments instead? Retard.

I hate to interrupt, but this is important.
You have only 28 days to install gentoo.
your pc is running a botnet.
common sense 2016 recommends
you install gentoo for the latest security updates
and protection against malware.
bgcolor=purple

I just updated our virtualization lab's windows VMs to 10 pro. We're not gonna pay $7 a month for +20 VMs. Ever.

8.1 for life.

I knew it.

You all laugh at me for not using the free upgrade and keeping my Windows 7 Pro.

Well fuck you all.

i used to be a die-hard windows fan

but then they released the shameless botnet of win10, and for the first time in my life i started looking at using different operating systems

Nice reading comprehension.

but muh games.

i wish all games would work on all devices regardless of fucking operating system

fuck directx fuck it to hell.

BOTNET
O
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N
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T

but muh audio production software

>The only version of winblows that was usable is now subscription-based
>pleb versions will probably follow
Well played, nutella.

wow you're cool bro

This is enterprise only. But I we all known that home editions are getting fucked over harder since you have to pay subscription to turn off updates and they'll make home users pay soon also.

>paying for windows
>ever
topkek

Thanks to AMD, Vulcan will save us from this hell.

Wait for vulkan to mature. It can compete with directx 12 and is cross platform and is open source.

Okay Ahmed.

>using Windows
>ever

FTFY.

>1980-2013
>Pay $100
>Own software forever

>2013+
>Pay $10 every month forever if I want to keep software
>3 years later I've paid over 3x more than I would have for a single permanent license

Can the software subscription meme please stop?

1: the article says it's for enterprise thus far
2: windows 7 will lose support and you will be stuck paying 4 rupees a month for home edition in a matter of time

>That cost will be $7 per user per month but the good news is it only applies to enterprises, for now. The new pricing tier will be called “Windows 10 Enterprise E3” and it means Windows has finally joined Office 365 and Azure as a subscription service.
That branding sounds like they're probably not even going to drop the regular non-subscription Enterprise distributions, the same way they still sell Office as a stand-alone product.

Even if they do, someone will find away around it, they always do.

Keep hope alive.

you caused this by pirating software

this means we won't be able to pirate windows anymore. Windows 11 or whatever will be fully subscription based from the start. Windows 10 is the last pirate-able edition.

oh well, it was a nice run.

This is actually not bad for a small business.

First of all, Enterprise is the only usable version of Windows 10. You have 10x more control over shit than any other version and you can actually turn shit off for the most part, including actually stopping updates and even a Long Term version that won't get bi-yearly major updates.

The biggest problem with the current Enterprise model for small businesses is that the Volume Licensing system is a pain in the ass to use and is way too expensive if you aren't buying 100+ licenses.

$7 flat each is a far better option.

I bet you use Linux mint now.

Your cuckoldry disgusts me.

Wincuckolds on suicide watch

>linking to le ebin infinite loop

That's exactly what I suspected looking into it further, though I can't find a licensing rate for 10 Enterprise, it sounds great for a small business.

I also can't really see them discontinuing "regular" Enterprise any time soon, feels like the subscription model isn't really conducive to potentially unreliable network connections or security practices like air-gapping that you might see in a large business.

>though I can't find a licensing rate for 10 Enterprise

Because currently with the shit Volume Licensing system you need to register and find a "provider service" that is licensed to sell you licenses. Each of those services charge differently You can't just buy the fucking thing directly, it's a garbage system.

>Mount denial

>windows 10 free upgrade expires on july 29
>31 days later you can't restore to previous version of windows
>32 days later a subscription fee of $6.66 is added for all windows 10 users

See you in August to laugh at your tinfoil.

Cucked again, Wincucks

>c

RMS was right ONCE AGAIN, Motherfuckers

This makes sense given how Windows 10 works

Before they could charge companies for a new version of Windows, but now every "new version" will just be a rolling release, so they need a subscription model otherwise companies buy it once and use it forever, getting all the updates for free

relevant
youtube.com/watch?v=q9mXyakv2i8

It applies to windows 10 mostly, vista and 7 are still good.

this is not revelant at all, if you don't like it, just pirate it, its easy as fuck

>paying for software
I wonder if this will finely push more business to GNU/Linux or how does it affects KMS activated versions which is what most serious copyright infringes use to activate their Windows versions.

Are you faggots serious? Windows is like the easiest shit ever to pirate. Who gives a fuck about what MS does.

Pay your rent, jamal

>Are you faggots serious? Windows is like the easiest shit ever to pirate. Who gives a fuck about what MS does.

Keep your inane comments in your pocket.

>I wonder if this will finely push more business to GNU/Linux

HAHAHAHAHAAH, you're probably fucking serious too.

Most IT farms already ditched windows

>I wonder if this will finely push more business to GNU/Linux

Oh the adorable Loonix delusion, every thread.

These businesses are likely already paying monthly for Office 365, so it'll be no different for them. In fact paying $7 flat directly to Microsoft beats the shit out of the current volume licensing system they have in place

If anyone will be ditching windows it'll be the home user, offices and big businesses will still be using windows forever as far as I'm aware.

>Renting Windows
>Renting Office
>Renting Photoshop
Ill stick with Linux, OpenOffice, and Gimp while not using non networked cloud based software is still legal in this country.

>Gimp

Yeah you do that, it's not like your have a real job that needs it anyway.

>OpenOffice
Why still use openoffice when libre office is where its at.

>he unironically thinks openoffice and gimp can compete with the corporate alternatives

Not everyone ITT is a pro photographer/graphic designer. Your dank Sup Forums memez don't require PS, you're just too dumb for GIMP

>Thinking that you need the corporate "alternatives"
Good goyim. Just relax while we try to stick this cock deeper into your gaping asshole.

I'd love to change to free stuff, but unfortunately freetards are only good at bickering and making knockoffs of the real thing.

They're basically the chinks of software development.

>implying everyone has enterprise edition
OP, just kill yourself.

>I'd love to change to free stuff
It's free as in freedom that's whats important, not the price.

>the real thing
Oh dear, you've been fucked so hard by corporate they've gotten you to thinking that photoshop and windows and word is the only correct way to be using software. You must be bleeding out of the asshole by now.

This doesn't affect existing Windows 10 Enterprise or LTSB, it's a separate Enterprise product "E3".

Makes sense since windows is now a Software as a service.

They'll soon charge home and pro versions as well. This way piracy can be prevented as well

Stay cucked, wincucks

That does indeed sound awful. I think I found a price list from one of those "provider services" but they didn't list Windows rates.

>I wonder if this will finely push more business to GNU/Linux
It won't, subscription services are nothing new in the world of enterprise(TM) software, and there's far more jew to go around than this tactic that actually probably saves smaller companies money.

>piracy can be prevented

Epik

How are u going to pirate cloud services? Office 365 is already in cloud, in a few years explorer.exe will be in the cloud too.

?
People pirate cable, senpai.
If anyone cares enough, it will happen.

There won't be windows 11

All consumer retardss and Sup Forums kids not knowing how VL licensing works. It's better for small/mid size businesses. Pro versions suck, Enterprise is where it's at. Beforehand it was a PITA to get Ent versioon to smaller businesses with

Also those retarded middlemen. Now it's hopefully straight from MS. So cheaper and easier

You are ending it by driving everybody into Linux that doesn't shovel you buckets of money. Where will you be without a large user-base to test your shitty updates?

>unironically giving microsoft money
you brought this on yourself

>how do you want your botnet senpai?
>just ransomware my shit up

Retard consumers and journalists gon be retards, nothing to do. Also most people will never leave Microsoft ecosystem, unless they got a wannabe "power user" sorry to take care of it.
We use Red Hat on ca 20% of workstations, others can't be changed, because of software.

GIMP can't but libreoffice works nicely for most office drone tasks, which is what people use microsoft office for 99% of the time

No he won't memefag
because he probably disabled his updates
stay cucked

thanks OP. I got some Melissa Carnety quote

What a strong beautiful woman

So does this mean I have to run KMS once a month?

Vulkan will never get widespread support. Linux has

After talking to our Microsoft Rep, this is for Enterprises that are not in an EA agreement, so this offers flexibility for those not wanting to purchase all those licenses up front (which are expensive btw, nearly 169 per use if i remember correctly. So 7 dollars a month per user is a pretty good deal.

GIMP honestly is slow as fuck on great hardware. Photoshop's GPU acceleration makes it king regardless of anything else.

just wait for the news that the free version only allows UWP apps-

Consumers will not pay 7 dollars a month for an operating system. That's ridiculous. Microsoft better keep this to enterprise and just let us have free updates.

Of course it will be free, what do you think do they with the data they collect.

Honestly this could work out in "our" benefit.

M$ goes full retard with Win10 and tries to sub base consumer level software.

Consumers shift to Linux and it's variants.

AMD & Jewvidia actually have motivation to actually produce actual, fully-functioning GPU drivers. Not this, "Well it gets 10% be tter FPS in GLXgears!!1" shit we've seen over the past 6 years or so.

Software can change hopefully if this subscription thing happens, at least Adobe shit. A man can dream

>cuck license

>He still think that will ever happen
Give up.

...

I fucking called it years ago. You nigros said I was retarded.

Well, who's the retard now? Protip: It's Windows 10 users.