Microsoft might offer Windows 10 as a subscription
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KissSh0t
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?
Robbo9999
I don't like subscriptions, I prefer one off payments for most things if it can be helped.
Barry J
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
IchimA
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
Kaarme
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.
Neo Cyrus
Everyone and their dogs knew this was coming. Microsoft can suck a not so micro hard.
Mark Niebauer
I totally agree, I would never pay for subscription. These Tech companies want us all enslaved with no freedom just total loyalty to them. They are very sick!
BOYDIE-NI
This could start a catalyst that pushes folk onto other platforms, or open source OS's.
BlueRay
Nah. Nothing will happen as long as MS keeps their one-time-buy license model along with the subscription.
sverek
Subscriptions are great for profits. It will be leeching of forgetful consumers ("B2B") for years.
BOYDIE-NI
The cynic in me doubts if MS will keep the One -time models;)
PsyaNyde
People will just migrate to a different OS, or even more home users will use the yo ho ho dark side to 'ahem' activate / licence ? their product.
shamus21
It is hard to justify the cost of a licence with the way every update to windows 10 ends up creating more problems more down time and lost working hours and now they want you to pay a sub to be a beta tester what a P--- Take.
Moto_Life
Sounds like a good way for them to raise prices all around...
Extraordinary
Bug-sub
fantaskarsef
Unless they give people an option to skip their crappy home and pro versions and go for a version that really lets you have control over your PC without 3rd party applications, I'm not even remotely interested.
m4dn355
Linux distros are smiling.
Evildead666
It would be q good way for Microsoft to get rid of all those pesky customers that have been bugging them all this time....
Seriously, if they do this, they will lose market share hand over fist.
Its been in the pipeline for years, and it seems they never buried it, just waiting for the right time to announce it....
nevcairiel
The point of many expensive software subscriptions like for Adobe Photoshop is two fold:
(a) You may only need it occasionally and can pay month by month, while the full product is really expensive
(b) You get the latest version whenever its out, without having to re-buy it every 2 years (which goes well with temporary use in (a))
That may or may not make sense for something like Office, but there is enough people using Office 365 already.
Fox2232
I can imagine scenario where it would finally mean something:
- License in bought PC is not pre-paid, therefore not inflating price of notebooks/OEM systems in general
- Then when you start using it, OS will give you choice to use your Retail Windows version, or activate device bound OEM or use subscription for given device
Would be lovely as that would decrease price of 99% of notebooks. And people could actually feel that they can try other OS without throwing money for OS to garbage.
