On 2/11/2019 4:33 PM, lonelydad wrote:
pjp wrote in
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In article , lid
says...
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.
They're already doing it.
They're dropping support.
They're changing stuff so that it won't run on win7.
Hardware and software vendors won't continue support indefinitely.
Office 365.
YOU will be running win10 eventually, at least for stuff that requires it...
or you'll do without that capability.
There's enough business usage to support MS. Non-business apps
guarantee a supply of workers that know how to use MS products
and business can't justify the training required to move to linux,
except in specific tightly controlled environments.
It will be interesting to see how business reacts when new recruits
have no computer experience beyond twitter.