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**pjp[_10_]** · February 12th 19, 02:08 AM posted to alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.os.windows-10

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On 2/11/19 8:00 AM, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

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In a new blog post entitled ?Helping customers shift to a modern
desktop?, Microsoft has announced that it will indeed start
charging Windows 7 customers a monthly fee from January 14th 2020,
if they want to keep their computers safe.

This SHOULD refer to security updates, not permission to use the OS.

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When I became a beta tester for 98 I once stated it was MS's intent to
eventually charge for everytime you use their software. That's what
Bill Gates once said a long time ago, e.g. he was entitled for payment
everytime you used the software and not just the once when purchased.
It's MS's intent to force the industry into this model wether it best
for their customers or not.

Want to use Word for an hour, that'll be $1.00 please, tack on another
dollar for "whatever". etc. etc. they'll nickel and dime us to death.

Sorry but FUC*K THAT.

I don't usually comment on the validity of a post, but what we have here
is an example of a response being fired off after mis/not reading the
original post and not doing any kind of research on the validity of the
content. As not@mail, stated, the proposed charge is if a user still
running Windows 7 wants to continue to receive security updates, they
will have to pay for it, since Windows 7 is about five versions back or
so, if one counts the semiannual updates of Windows 10 as new versions.
If Microsoft really tried to bill for the continued use of Windows 7
intself it would be violating its own Terms of Use, and would more than
likely face a raft of lawsuits from corporate users still using the
platform. Microsoft has fully depreciated the capital cost of Windows 7
and its term of support, and has no legal basis to start charging a user
fee for continued use. But it would be interesting to see them try it.

And my response is still that it's MS's long term "plan" to charge to
use and never "own" anything. Win7 and security updates is just the
first of many to come.

And my take is "the product clearly had defects when it was "sold" to me
otherwise there'd be no need for fixes" therefore they are obligated to
fix any and all problems for "eternity". If not then they should be
legally obligated to release the source code to public domain so others
can instead.