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Microsoft might offer Windows 10 as a subscription

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 12/17/2018 09:43 AM | source: pcgameshardware | 88 comment(s)
Microsoft might offer Windows 10 as a subscription

Microsoft has been playing with subscription-based models of their software for a while now, much like Office 365. From the looks of things. From the looks of it Microsoft could soon do the same with their OS, that would be Windows 10 in a subscription form,

Microsoft is headhunting a product manager for a consumer product called Microsoft 365, this is a software package that was only offered to companies. Microsoft 365 is a monthly subscription service that includes Windows 10 and the Office 365 package. Based on a job advertisement, it is now deduced that Microsoft will also target the subscription service, which is currently aimed at business customers, to end users. It is believed that the package will include Outlook Mobile, Microsoft To Do, and some MSN apps. 

The target audience would be huge and many users may even be happy to pay a monthly fee for a complete package of Windows 10, Office 365 and Mobility and Security. 








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KissSh0t
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#5618125 Posted on: 12/17/2018 09:46 AM
What would you get that's different to purchasing it? or..... if you subscribe to it long enough do you then pay off the price of it and you then own it?

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#5618129 Posted on: 12/17/2018 10:02 AM
I don't like subscriptions, I prefer one off payments for most things if it can be helped.

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#5618130 Posted on: 12/17/2018 10:03 AM
would need to be cheap as buying the OS for £100 and using for 5 years make the OS almost nothing a month maybe Microsoft office would be part of the subscription

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#5618131 Posted on: 12/17/2018 10:04 AM
Since I use a computer everyday ! Would happy apply to a subscription based program with one condition. The price should not be more then 2 euro a mounth . Or it's better to buy it now as otherwise it would cost You more on the long run

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#5618135 Posted on: 12/17/2018 10:26 AM
Since I use a computer everyday ! Would happy apply to a subscription based program with one condition. The price should not be more then 2 euro a mounth . Or it's better to buy it now as otherwise it would cost You more on the long run


The point of this move, for Microsoft, is to make more money. There's no way it would be cheaper than buying the OS licence. Unless they double or triple the price of the one-off purchase, which would make it cheaper short-term. Now the problem for them is that even if they get a decent amount of money when a person gets a Windows licence, it only happens rarely. They would like to get that much every year. The other problem are the OEM licences, which predominate the consumer market. MS no doubt would like to chance that so that Windows registration is only valid for a year, for example, from the purchase of the PC, and then people would start to pay monthly subscription.

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