As I Predicted Years Ago

http://www.computerworld.com/article...on-effort.html


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Z

Z wrote:

http://www.computerworld.com/article...osoft-windows/
microsoft-amps-up-windows-as-a-subscription-effort.html

Just another nail in the Microsoft monopoly coffin.

Stef

Z wrote:
http://www.computerworld.com/article...on-effort.html



Just another required form of licensing applicable to use of Enterprise
editions of Windows previously only available via Volume Licensing with 2
yr(5-250 seats) or 3yr(250+). Enterprise requires the latter.

Did you read the article ? Subscription per user licensing for Enterprise
started in 2014 - Enterprise Cloud Suite(ECS, $7-12/mo. for Windows
Enterprise, Office 365, Mobility Suite)


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...winston
msft mvp windows experience 2007-2016, insider mvp 2016

En el artículo , Stef
escribió:

Just another nail in the Microsoft monopoly coffin.

When's the party?

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On Wed, 13 Jul 2016 13:30:43 -0400
". . .winston" wrote:

Did you read the article ?

What the ****, greg...
he posted it....

This email still good?

....greg"



On Sat, 9 Jul 2016 14:22:51 -0400
"...winston" wrote:

Having a bad hair day Burfwheat ?



Awww greg, if that is the best you got better
stay on the porch,
This email still good:


On Tue, 21 Jun 2016 13:49:27 -0400
". . .winston" wrote:


Surely winston gave them instructions?

2 points for that one...... :-)

How about that, Buckwheat has a friend.

....winston
msft mvp windows experience



on Mon, 30 May 2016 19:25:46 -0400
". . .winston" wrote:

BuckwheaTJ - are you having one of those 'wish I had a watermelon'
moments again trying to be heard.


...winston
msft mvp windows experience

On Wed, 22 Jun 2016 08:09:44 -0400
burfordTjustice wrote:

Surely winston gave them instructions?

2 points for that one...... :-)

How about that, Buckwheat has a friend.

Whoa! Someone playfully teases you and you strike out with a
racist attack. Nice, real mature.

Sorry, Stimey.

.. . .winston wrote:
Z wrote:
http://www.computerworld.com/article...on-effort.html




Just another required form of licensing applicable to use of Enterprise
editions of Windows previously only available via Volume Licensing with
2 yr(5-250 seats) or 3yr(250+). Enterprise requires the latter.

Did you read the article ? Subscription per user licensing for
Enterprise started in 2014 - Enterprise Cloud Suite(ECS, $7-12/mo. for
Windows Enterprise, Office 365, Mobility Suite)



Yes, I know but the article also said rent for consumer is down the
pike. Office 365 was first.

--
Z

Z wrote:
. . .winston wrote:
Z wrote:
http://www.computerworld.com/article...on-effort.html





Just another required form of licensing applicable to use of Enterprise
editions of Windows previously only available via Volume Licensing with
2 yr(5-250 seats) or 3yr(250+). Enterprise requires the latter.

Did you read the article ? Subscription per user licensing for
Enterprise started in 2014 - Enterprise Cloud Suite(ECS, $7-12/mo. for
Windows Enterprise, Office 365, Mobility Suite)



Yes, I know but the article also said rent for consumer is down the pike.
Office 365 was first.


Keizer(article author) - fwiw, lots of predictions, not always accurate.

The focus of the program is towards Enterprise and the SMB side...the latter
where traditional licensing programs and associated costs are not
economically feasible or in many cases desired.

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...winston
msft mvp windows experience 2007-2016, insider mvp 2016

Mike Tomlinson wrote:

En el artículo , Stef
escribió:

Just another nail in the Microsoft monopoly coffin.

When's the party?

Patience. Such things take time.

Stef

On 7/13/2016 10:19 PM, Stef wrote:
Mike Tomlinson wrote:

En el artículo , Stef
escribió:

Just another nail in the Microsoft monopoly coffin.

When's the party?

Patience. Such things take time.

Stef

What's the alternative?
We're stuck with M$ and windows no matter what happens.

And don't mention the "L-word". That's not an alternative
and likely won't ever be unless the developer attitude
does a 180 to put the inexperienced-user experience first.

On 07/14/2016 12:32 AM, mike wrote:
On 7/13/2016 10:19 PM, Stef wrote:
Mike Tomlinson wrote:

En el artículo , Stef
escribió:

Just another nail in the Microsoft monopoly coffin.

When's the party?

Patience. Such things take time.

Stef

What's the alternative?
We're stuck with M$ and windows no matter what happens.

And don't mention the "L-word". That's not an alternative
and likely won't ever be unless the developer attitude
does a 180 to put the inexperienced-user experience first.

Speaking of the L-Word. "L" is quite now easy to use.

L's downfall is the lack of applications. Until the developers
start cranking out "L" versions of everyone's favorite Windows
software, "L" in never going to make much more than a dent, even
though it is now easy to use and technically superior.

On Wed, 13 Jul 2016 23:58:46 -0400
". . .winston" wrote:

lots of predictions, not always accurate.

and you know better....NOT

On Wed, 13 Jul 2016 13:38:49 +0200, Z wrote in


http://www.computerworld.com/article...on-effort.html

I run Win7pro on this box. If MS offered an annual subscription on
it, I would buy it if it was reasonably price. However I don't think
MS is smart enough to do something like that.
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En el artículo , CRNG
escribió:

I run Win7pro on this box. If MS offered an annual subscription on
it, I would buy it if it was reasonably price.

Why? You've already paid for it (to be more exact, you've paid for the
licence to use it.)

Why pay again?

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In article , says...

En el artículo , CRNG
escribió:

I run Win7pro on this box. If MS offered an annual subscription on
it, I would buy it if it was reasonably price.

Why? You've already paid for it (to be more exact, you've paid for the
licence to use it.)

Why pay again?

I said this when Win98Beta was out and I'll say it again.

MS's long term goal is that you pay for everytime you use their
software. Eventually you'll be required to be individually somehow known
to them along with a credit card number and that's all she wrote.

Your OS will be little more than a download stub.

mike wrote:

On 7/13/2016 10:19 PM, Stef wrote:
Mike Tomlinson wrote:

En el artículo , Stef
escribió:

Just another nail in the Microsoft monopoly coffin.

When's the party?

Patience. Such things take time.

Stef

What's the alternative?

For the average Windows user who are the vast majority and just browse,
email, word process, etc,, just about any OS will do. Right now I think
Android is the fastest growing.

We're stuck with M$ and windows no matter what happens.

I never intended to imply with my sarcastic remark that Windows will
ever disappear. It won't. It's too entrenched. But it is loosing
market share slowly, and I hope someday its strangle hold monopoly on
manufacturers will decline to the point where you the buyer have a
choice of preinstalled OSes on the computer you buy. Monopoly never
benefits the consumer. Choice is what drives a free market economy.

And don't mention the "L-word". That's not an alternative
and likely won't ever be unless the developer attitude
does a 180 to put the inexperienced-user experience first.

Not an alternative? There are many who will disagree. However, as has
been said many times befo Linux is not Windows; and has never
purported to be, but somehow Windows users continue to expect it to be.
Maybe because Windows is the only OS they've ever used, and they think
all OSes are the same. And when it's not, and they become frustrated,
they angrily lash out with undeserved epithets.

Linux has always been a niche OS. Although, over the years, it's use
has been increasing in the "average user" market. It's gotten way
easier to install and configure, mostly automatic. Of course, if it
came preinstalled like Windows that would change everything. But
Microsoft does all it can to make sure that option never happens. But
they are slowly loosing that battle, too.


Stef