'UpgradeSubscription.exe' File In Preview Build Hints At Windows 10 Subscriptions (zdnet.com) 285
An anonymous reader writes: A file named "UpgradeSubscription.exe" is found buried in the System32 folder of Windows 10 build 14376, alongside 590 other .exe files. ZDNet reports the file has been part of other recent preview builds, but just recently uncovered. "In the file's properties, it's described as the Windows Upgrade to Subscription Tool, and its date and time stamp corresponds to other administrative tools in the same build," reports ZDNet. You can view the screenshot here. Microsoft responded to ZDNet saying: "The Windows Upgrade to Subscription tool, found in the latest Windows Insider builds, helps to manage certain volume licensing upgrades from Windows 10 Pro Anniversary Update to Windows 10 Enterprise. This binary file is not associated with the free consumer upgrade offering nor is it applicable to consumer Windows editions." When pressed for additional details, Microsoft responded with, "No further comment." While the file does nothing, it does appear to confirm that it's related to licensing, referencing a registry value called AllowWindowsSubscription. Build 14376 reveals a few references to servicing packages named Microsoft-Client-License-Platform-Upgrade-Subscription-Package. Last year, there was some talk about Windows 10 being the last version of Windows as Microsoft is pushing a "Windows as a service" vision. When news broke in April about Windows Phone's sharp revenue declines, PCWorld reported that CEO Satya Nadella's strategy is to grow Microsoft's revenues by convincing customers to adopt its paid subscription services.
This is it! The year of the Linux desktop! (Score:5, Insightful)
Welcome the Windows refugees with open arms.
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Please no. I don't want the unwashed masses attracting malware to my platform of choice.
Interesting myth that I keep seeing repeated. Windows has malware because security is an afterthought, most users run with root privileges 100% of the time, and the UAC is worse than useless because most people mindlessly click through it. UNIX-like systems are designed to be secure (as multi-user systems, the goal from the start was to never let user A be able to muck up user B's data or processes).
The fact that Windows is top desktop OS might make it more attractive to hackers, but it's also the lowest
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This thing you linked only compromises one user and is trivial to kill off if you know where to look.
And every time they print one of those "OMG LINUX IS TEH TOTALLY HAXXED THIS TIME" articles it turns out "...assuming the user is dumb enough to run this script with root privileges, even though basically all distros don't give them to you by default unless you elevate." And if you download and run a random thing you get in an email as root, you really deserve what you get :P
The moral of the story is this...there is no such thing as a secure OS if the user has control of the system because the user is frankly the easiest part of any system to exploit.
Well I would still much rather ha
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Also as admitted by the author, it's not actually a virus, but malware. Which I would assume means it doesn't spread, considering the infection vector is convincing the user to install it themselves.
Now you see why its free and being pushed so hard (Score:5, Insightful)
The first one is always free.
Suckers.
Exactly! (Score:5, Interesting)
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but, as with Adobe Photoshop, I'll just hang onto CC6 for a while longer.
So would I, if it supported enough, but sadly it doesn't, so we're on Adobe CC...
We need proper 4k support and some of the modern tools that CS6 lacks...
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"We need proper 4k support"
Proper '4k' support has been in Photoshop since the 90s. I've worked with imagery 2x-4x that resolution since the days when JASC's Paint Shop Pro was actual competition.
"some of the modern tools that CS6 lacks"
Almost everything Photoshop does is lock-step with what GIMP does (GIMP had picture healing and other features first.) How about you get used to a new UI and go with something free?
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Proper '4k' support has been in Photoshop since the 90s
If you used your brain rather than try and be snarky, you'd know I was talking about Premiere, since that is the only program where "proper 4k support" makes any sense...
How about you get used to a new UI and go with something free?
GIMP sucks... it really does... it is fine for cheap people who want a free tool, but it is no Photoshop...
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It was a "free upgrade" to a paid service. Such a deal!
"You know that thing you have that you use all the time? Well, we've got an even shittier one that you'll have to pay for, but we'll let you upgrade to it for free!"
Re:Exactly! (Score:5, Informative)
It was a "free upgrade" to a paid service. Such a deal!
What part of
"The Windows Upgrade to Subscription tool, found in the latest Windows Insider builds, helps to manage certain volume licensing upgrades from Windows 10 Pro Anniversary Update to Windows 10 Enterprise. This binary file is not associated with the free consumer upgrade offering nor is it applicable to consumer Windows editions."
Did you miss?
I know, picking on Microsoft is still popular, even rightly so at times, and they might as well be lying or maybe tell the truth now and make a 360 later on, but still...
RT.
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What part of
"The Windows Upgrade to Subscription tool, found in the latest Windows Insider builds, helps to manage certain volume licensing upgrades from Windows 10 Pro Anniversary Update to Windows 10 Enterprise. This binary file is not associated with the free consumer upgrade offering nor is it applicable to consumer Windows editions."
Did you miss?
The part where they're apparently going to start charging users for the "free" upgrade. Yeah, that part.
Let's watch and see if Microsoft doesn't start charging people for Windows 10. I bet they do. It's always been their Holy Grail Wet Dream of business models to have their customers paying by the month. FFS, look at Outlook 360 and the all the other monthly subscription services they've minted in the last few years. They want everyone on a subscription package and you'd have to be a fool not to see it.
How
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Isn't this illegal where you live? This kind of bait-and-switch on something that was specifically advertised as a "free upgrade" to your non-subscription product would likely result in an investigation by Trading Standards in the UK.
Having said that, I doubt they will make the basic OS subscription based. More likely it will be select features, like XBox Live or maybe streaming through the Windows Store or whatever it's called. Office is already available as a subscription, along with cloud storage. The fr
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This is for enterprise licensing, not home users. And the spyware thing seems to have been completely overblown, with a few hints of genuinely inappropriate data being sent around turning into claims of Microsoft hoovering up your entire hard disk and sending it to their HQ.
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But they haven't done it. This is for businesses, not home users. I applaud your rage, but it's entirely misdirected. It should take you more than a single word in a filename to generate such boundless anger.
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Stockholm Syndrome.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
Re:Don't accept abuse! (Score:5, Insightful)
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slash dotters have been dealing with Microsoft abuse for 30 years.
AT this point they are tired of pointing out microsoft's next move only to be scoffed at and ridiculed, and then proven correct.
This was expected (Score:5, Interesting)
Windows 10, according to Microsoft [microsoft.com], has always had mainstream support ending October 13, 2020, and extended support ending October 14, 2025. Various sites reported this a year ago, but people forgot, I guess.
Since this was the "last windows you'll ever buy", that meant that the next one would have to be a "rental-only" version.
I wouldn't be surprised if 10 includes a time bomb to deactivate at it after it goes out of support.
Re:This was expected (Score:5, Funny)
Windows 10. So many issues it now has subscriptions.
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I wouldn't be surprised if 10 includes a time bomb to deactivate at it after it goes out of support.
Forget 2020. I wouldn't be surprised if 10 includes a time bomb to deactivate it if you don't start paying a monthly fee, starting around August or so.
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Forget 2020. I wouldn't be surprised if 10 includes a time bomb to deactivate it if you don't start paying a monthly fee, starting around August or so.
This might be Nadella's wet dream but he won't get away with it, in Europe at least: the EU would come down on them like a ton of bricks. They might make it very hard to install something that is not in the MS App store; this would make it hard enough to install something like libreOffice that many will just buy an Office365 subscription. They would do this by hiding the ability away such that you need obscure registry settings, or something.
Re:This was expected (Score:5, Insightful)
Correct. They couldn't disable it. They could start showing you ads if you don't subscribe though.
Listen, the real lesson here is that, like it or not, Stallman was right. I'm not speaking as an FSF fan or Free software zealot either.
Linux is your only viable escape from this. Apple isn't. Android isn't. It's starting to dawn on the masses that Stallman saw something 30+ yeas ago that they are only just beginning to understand. Those who control the source code, control you (see also, Volkswagon and the emissions scandal).
It's happening all the time.,You only find out about a tiny number. You can't stop them unless you have the source code and the means to modifying the system.
Call it the right to repair, the right to tinker, the right to hack. Whatever.
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Agreed, but one small point. Android is fully open source. You might struggle to run it on any actual hardware without binary blob drivers, but the same is true of Linux.
By the way, if anyone as a Loongson laptop they would like to sell, I'm in the market.
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This has been expected for /decades/. I remember reading an article in PC World magazine where Bill Gates commented on how he'd like Microsoft to move to a subscription-based service, comparing it directly to cable companies (this was back in 1993 or so, so you'll pardon me if I don't have the exact issue and quote). The infrastructure and customer acceptance didn't make this possible - the Internet was only just starting to enter the public eye - , so it was just a pipe-dream back then. But Microsoft plays
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Well, if Microsoft meant that this was "the last windows you'll ever buy" because future ones will be per-month rentals, then they're right. The version of Windows that many people "bought" (in the price of their computer) will be the last version they ever buy. People will flock to Apple instead of paying a monthly fee for the "privilege" of being able to boot up their computer to check their e-mail and Facebook.
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Given the way that the Windows Store keeps shoving itself in my face (I've been dinking around with "insider" builds), it would surprise me none if MSFT were going to take the same route as GOOG and AAPL: Give away the OS, and make money on a percentage of the take selling applications.
Subscription depends on how it is done... (Score:3, Interesting)
I subscribe to Office 365, I quite like the model actually...
I have multiple computers and being able to install Office and have it always up to date, along with 5 OneDrive accounts with plenty of storage is totally worth it to me.
Windows as a service could work, if done right. The key is to take into account those people who have more than 2 or 3 computers and to provide an inexpensive way to grow that number (which Office 365 really doesn't under one account).
But really it needs to be on a per-user basis, so I can install Windows on as many computers as I want, so long as my first log-in is and remains the primary account. Remove that account and the "activation" goes away. Perhaps the primary account needs to log-in once every 30 days to keep it active?
Re:Subscription depends on how it is done... (Score:5, Informative)
I wish OneDrive was a better product though. Ever tried to sync large OneDrive folders between two machines on your local network? Unlike Dropbox it doesn't seem to realize that there's no need to do a roundtrip to an Oregon server to copy files between computers that are two feet apart.
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I wish OneDrive was a better product though. Ever tried to sync large OneDrive folders between two machines on your local network? Unlike Dropbox it doesn't seem to realize that there's no need to do a roundtrip to an Oregon server to copy files between computers that are two feet apart.
I agree with you... Sadly, DropBox won't offer me 10TB of storage for $70 a year...
If they would, I'd probably use it...
Note: I'm grandfathered in with OneDrive, so I have 10TB of storage per account. New accounts only get 1TB, which wouldn't be enough for me. :(
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Of course there is a need. How else shall they make a real time scan of your files to make sure you are not up to no good?
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I did pay for OneDrive for a while, when they were offering unlimited space. Then they realized that was a terrible idea and reduced it to 15GB, when I had about 1.2TB of data. Moved by encrypted backups to Spideroak and never looked back.
Yes, Spideroak could screw me as well one day. That's just the risk you run with the cloud, but at least I have an up to date, tested off-site backup.
Re:Subscription depends on how it is done... (Score:5, Insightful)
I don't like this, and I don't use Office 365 for this exact reason. Software as a service makes no sense at all for individuals. For corporations, sure. RENTING shit is generally a fucking waste of money. At the end of the day, you have nothing.
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Software as a service makes no sense at all for individuals.
Nonsense, OneDrive makes plenty of sense, as does DropBox and other services...
RENTING shit is generally a fucking waste of money.
That is a broad brush that isn't true as much as you'd think it is...
Re:Subscription depends on how it is done... (Score:4, Interesting)
Even for some corporations it can be a waste of money to rent versus own. If a company keeps the same version of Office for several years, or keeps multiple versions of it, then buying will probably be cheaper than renting. Corporations do not need cloud support and a sane corporation will forbid using it. However there are those companies that do everything Microsoft asks of them on cue, and they'll probably save money via renting versus buying every new release that comes out.
For a home user though, paying maybe $140 for Office 2013 versus a $100/year subscription to Office 365 is a no brainer - if you use it for two years you're saving money already. If you keep it for ten years you save a ton of money. All you lose are cloud services but you can get that without going through Microsoft's crappy service and most people will never need a cloud service. It's really a ridiculous model just based on the cost.
Re:Subscription depends on how it is done... (Score:4, Insightful)
I subscribe to Office 365, I quite like the model actually...
You've never upgraded software only to find a feature you rely on has been removed, or that it no longer opens some old document format from your archives like the previous version did? And you're OK with having no control over the version you run in the event you would like to keep that feature or open those documents?
Do you really trust that Microsoft will let you access your data indefinitely, or will they start rolling out fees to open documents?
You are completely off your rocker.
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Windows as a service could work
No. Windows as a service could not work. This isn't a program, an app, a productivity suite. This is your computer capable of working. It should never require a subscription. If I want a 30 year old computer with a 30 year old OS that worked fine at the time I shouldn't need to keep feeding it money to do what it was always capable of.
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I'd rather buy office and use an out of date version for years and years than have to be constantly feeding the meter to do any work
And you can, they still offer that option and likely will for at least the next few years...
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I'd rather buy office and use an out of date version for years and years than have to be constantly feeding the meter to do any work
And you can, they still offer that option and likely will for at least the next few years...
Apache office, the only cross platform compatible Office suite.
Re:Subscription depends on how it is done... (Score:5, Informative)
Apache office, the only cross platform compatible Office suite.
Sure, but not with MS Office which is really the only one that counts...
Yes, I've tried the other options, they "kinda sorta work" most of the time, sometimes, often, but not 100% of the time...
When you exchange Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files with other people, edit them, then send them back, they have to be perfect.
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Apache office, the only cross platform compatible Office suite.
Sure, but not with MS Office which is really the only one that counts...
Yes, I've tried the other options, they "kinda sorta work" most of the time, sometimes, often, but not 100% of the time...
When you exchange Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files with other people, edit them, then send them back, they have to be perfect.
Problem is, you just locked yourself into Windows PCs. Unless there has been a radical change, Mocrosoft office isn't even compatable with crossing to OS X. I spent a lot of time fixing shit I got from Windows versions. It ain't all that, and if the best we can say is that it can get an excel or word file right on one platform. well now that's a shining endorsement.
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Problem is, you just locked yourself into Windows PCs.
Or you can just use the free office online with a free outlook account, like google docs. Works just fine for those times you really need to use MS Word.
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Or you can just use the free office online with a free outlook account, like google docs. Works just fine for those times you really need to use MS Word.
For many people, that is plenty... for professionals who actually use this stuff all the time, it isn't...
My wife gets documents and files all the time from many people and sends out many more. She simply could not function without MS Office and nothing else is an acceptable alternative.
I've tried opening her documents in other Office programs, none of them do it properly, sad to say...
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For many people, that is plenty... for professionals who actually use this stuff all the time, it isn't...
You can use office 365 online, and you can use it on Linux or OSX too.
Re:Subscription depends on how it is done... (Score:5, Insightful)
You can use office 365 online, and you can use it on Linux or OSX too.
First, no you really can't use the online versions in a professional environment... yes, they work fine in a pinch, but if you're building or editing a 143 slide PowerPoint, that is just painful.
Desktop applications exist for a reason.
Also, this has nothing to do with Windows vs Linux vs OSX, it has to do with MS Office in general.
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...143 slide Powerpoint
Intriguing. Do you have a newsletter I can subscribe to?
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Problem is, you just locked yourself into Windows PCs
Sure, but that is 95% of the world... I didn't pick it, the world did, I'm just using what everyone else uses...
Unless there has been a radical change, Mocrosoft office isn't even compatable with crossing to OS X.
Maybe not, but how many professionals use OS X?
Hint: the number is greater than zero, but it isn't THAT high...
I spent a lot of time fixing shit I got from Windows versions.
Ahh, so you're on Mac! Running MS Office on Mac? Why? If you're going to be on Mac, why pay MS anything?
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OpenOffice is no worse than different versions of MS Office in that respect.
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OpenOffice is no worse than different versions of MS Office in that respect.
First, I disagree... OpenOffice isn't remotely the same as using Office 2013 vs Office 2016 on the same document, I've tried it...
Second, if you're using Office in a serious professional capacity where 100% accuracy is needed, then you're on the current version...
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That is true in really large companies... it is far less true outside of public companies...
And it is less true every day, now that MS has made it easier to be on the newest version of everything...
In any case, Office 2016 is FAR more compatible with Office 2013 than it is with OpenOffice...
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Yes, I've tried the other options, they "kinda sorta work" most of the time, sometimes, often, but not 100% of the time...
The same is true for Microsoft Office. I had to open a MS Word 95 file. MS Office could not read it, OpenOffice had no problem with it.
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Apache office, the only cross platform compatible Office suite.
Sure, but not with MS Office which is really the only one that counts...
Yes, I've tried the other options, they "kinda sorta work" most of the time, sometimes, often, but not 100% of the time...
When you exchange Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files with other people, edit them, then send them back, they have to be perfect.
Then don't use MSOffice. I've sent an .docx file from one computer to another using the exact same version of MSWord on both and the formatting got completely wrecked. This has happened repeatedly and in one instance almost cost me my job.
I vet all of my documents in LibreOffice because I've never had that problem with LO.
Re: Subscription depends on how it is done... (Score:2)
Re:Subscription depends on how it is done... (Score:5, Insightful)
I'd rather just use OpenOffice.org or LibreOffice than paying Microsoft $100 or more. I'm still using Windows, but if Microsoft decides that all future Windows computer sales need a monthly "Windows license fee" to operate then I'll look into a Mac or will buy a Windows laptop and will put Linux on it.
New computers will probably come with 3 years... (Score:5, Interesting)
I can see a time when you go buy a new computer and it comes with Windows on it and 3 years of "free" updates and support, with the option to pay X dollars per year after that to get continued updates...
This way people who don't need to buy a new computer can, at least for awhile, continue to use that machine and keep it current...
The question is, how much per machine, or per user, per year?
$5 per machine per year might be reasonable, or perhaps $20 per user for up to 5 machines, or perhaps a family licence for $50 per year for 25 machines and 10 users...
I imagine they won't be that generous, but they would be smart to do so to soften the blow when they roll it out. Either way, the idea of selling Windows and giving away 10 years of free updates is probably not going to survive, whatever comes next...
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What are you a menonite? 10 users and 25 machines in your family?
Microsoft's previous family products included 3 licenses, don't expect that to change as they've had that policy for almost a decade.
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What are you a menonite? 10 users and 25 machines in your family?
Microsoft's previous family products included 3 licenses, don't expect that to change as they've had that policy for almost a decade.
I have at least 15 under my control in a non commercial environment. Fortunately only 1 is an internet connected W10 machine, with nothing personal on it at all. 5 W10 networked machines but air gapped, and the rest linux or OS X. Guess which one computer is a pain in the ass. Hint, not any Unixy ones.
Oh, and a cute little RPi 3 running Ubuntu Mate. I have a subscription plan for Apache Office on them all. They update AO and I download and install it. They have a money back guarantee as well.
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What are you a menonite? 10 users and 25 machines in your family?
What, I can't have 8 kids?
As for the computers, that isn't hard.. desktops, laptops, computers on the TVs, a file server, build and test machines, a few computers at the beach house, etc...
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Microsoft's previous family products included 3 licenses, don't expect that to change as they've had that policy for almost a decade.
Office 365 Family is 5, so frankly your statement isn't even correct today, much less in the future...
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with the option to pay X dollars per year after that to get continued updates...
This would be acceptable. What's the bet that the concept of being allowed to use an expired license on a computer isn't what Microsoft agrees with?
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The free anti-virus software that comes with new PCs usually lasts about a month before you have to pay. If Microsoft goes this route I imagine they will adopt industry best practice.
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It's called an ellipsis, and the use of it signifies that there are words missing. When used at the end of a sentence they imply there's more to be said, but the reader should be able to fill in the blanks, from the context of whatever has already been written.
I'm sure you'd know this if you had any great ability in, or facility with, the English language...
420 AM Ehh..... (Score:2)
IT is all bout (Score:4, Insightful)
It is all about rent seeking, the ultimate business model! Let's see what happens to all those free upgrades from pirated editions, popcorn ready.
But for how long? (Score:3)
Rent seeking is not what you think it is. But I get your point. Such a "rental" model isn't going to last long when we're in the final days of the unholy Roman empire. In the jobless future, the only business that'll matter is show business. Yes, games and porn, the better to keep the masses from revolting.
So here's my advice to Nadella, Sell off Office and your other enterprise software businesses soon be made obsolete by Big Data AI. Focus on the Xbox, VR, etc. Your main costumer is going to be the govern
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Let's see what happens to all those free upgrades from pirated editions, popcorn ready.
Probably nothing since there was no free upgrades from pirated editions beyond a single screenshot with a lot of reading between the lines on a single Microsoft support page which was amended a week after it was published.
Again (Score:5, Funny)
MS is poised to once again make a Moderately funny joke [ahajokes.com] into reality.
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From the linked article/joke:
Be on the lookout for products like Microsoft Mugging, which either takes $50 or erases your hard drive
Well, it didn't come from Microsoft, but in the end this sadly came true
Full virtualization rights? (Score:2)
I would be interested in Windows subscriptions if it included full virtualization rights. As it is now, licensing Widows for virtualization is a clusterfsck.
as long as it doesn't fuck with previous patches (Score:2)
I expect the switch will be Aug 1, 2016 (Score:2)
Hey Nadella (Score:4, Insightful)
Nadella - if you are reading this thread?
Piss off.
There is no way on God's Green Earth that I will ever pay a subscription fee for an operating system.
Ugh, NO - that file is the edition changer (Score:2)
I have difficulty believing this (Score:2)
Don't use Windows 10 because it's an Orwellian nightmare of surveillance, of course. But I am just doubtful Microsoft would shoot themselves in the head by doing what most commenters here are taking it to mean.
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As my unsername suggests I'm not a big Linux fan. At this point I might just stop using computers altogether.
Re: Goodbye Subscription Windows..... (Score:3, Funny)
It sounds like you almost already have.
Re:Goodbye Subscription Windows..... (Score:5, Funny)
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You could always use OSX. However I don't trust that one day Apple won't start verifying the hardware is genuine and your install stops working.
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You could always use OSX. However I don't trust that one day Apple won't start verifying the hardware is genuine and your install stops working.
Yes, there's no guarantee that any version of Mac OS X^W^W^WOS X^W^WmacOS will run, or that it will continue to run, or that the next release after it will run, on a Hackintosh.
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In fact, a major bug in this verification system prevented some builds of OS X 10.11 from booting via Netboot on certain Mac Minis causing the system to freeze in the middle of booting. Fortunately a later build fixed the issue but the problem persisted for several months before they finally fixed it.
As I understand it, OS X primarily checks
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who cares? Really is that a deal breaker? cause that's just dumb.
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While some may find it annoying that there are not two keys dedicated to the function, despite persistent claims to the contrary you can both backspace and delete on a mac. It is achieved by using a modifier key (the apple key, in this case). Really, a worse complaint is the lack of arrow keys. In both cases it comes down to how many keys you can fit onto a keyboard of a certain size while keeping the keys large enough to be useful.
In other news, apple doesn't put a top row of special keys on the keyboard (
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In other news, apple doesn't put a top row of special keys on the keyboard (like Dell does) and instead uses the function keys. To actually get a function key you have to use the Function modifier key. I find this annoying and it makes it easy to change display brightness when trying to contort for some god-awful keyboard shortcut (there's one I use frequently that is a horrible mashup of *four* modifier keys plus the key being modified -- and there is no menu equivalent, it is the keyboard or nothing).
You do realize you can reverse the "Fn" behavior, right?
OS X/macOS will let you do it globally [apple.com], or you can use the F/OSS (Donationware) "Function Flip" [kevingessner.com] to do it individually for each Function key.
You're welcome.
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Linux may "imitate" Unix, but BSD is a Unix.
Re:Goodbye Subscription Windows..... (Score:5, Insightful)
Yeah yeah, this is what people were saying they were going to do when Windows Me came out...switch to Linux. Then again when Windows Vista came out. Then again when Windows 8 came out. Then again when Windows 10 came out. But it doesn't happen, still any Windows story on here gets the same comments and the same furious people with the empty threat of saying they will move to other operating systems.
Seriously for all the pontificating about how great Linux (and FreeBSD) is and all the anecdotes about "i put it on my family members' computer and they love it" the stories about Windows should be pretty devoid of those furious comments by now. I'm predicting that much like every other thing Microsoft has done that has created the faux backlash here, this won't change their usage share at all. They could ship Windows with a camera that they shove up your ass and ultimately you'd still use it, it's sad that that is the case and effort and money should instead be spent on making desktop Linux (or FreeBSD) a truly viable alternative but I doubt that will happen.
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My machine? Then it is my Linux.
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,,,or, Windows users could opt to stick with Windows 7 indefinitely. A successful Windows 10 subscription model assumes that people want to stay current with new Windows features. But if all the Windows-specific apps they use are legacy Win32 apps, there will never be a meaningful Windows upgrade for those users. Since most new apps are browser, Android or iOS based, Win32 + Chrome is the desktop platform with the apps.
Microsoft has not succeeded in getting the lions share of developers to rewrite their
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But it doesn't happen, still any Windows story on here gets the same comments and the same furious people with the empty threat of saying they will move to other operating systems.
Or, y'know, they actually are moving to other OSs and it's different people posting that they're leaving this time.
Re: Goodbye Subscription Windows..... (Score:3)
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Hello FreeBSD
And hello, Linux Mint.
I could be wrong, but I just don't think most people want to pay and pay and pay for Windows forever.
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It will encrypt all your data until you buy a license key. If you kept backups, the FBI will arrest you as a terrorist and you'll go to jail for 20 years. Hans Reiser will be your cell mate. Richard Stallman will visit every 3rd Tuesday to gloat about how he warned you in 1997 and you didn't listen.
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That is already happening. I can't open my old Cubase files. So far Microsoft has been pretty good about that. I can still open documents made in Office 4.3. Anyway, so why not reduce the in-house bureaucratic workload? And besides, it will be easier to hold Microsoft responsible for any security problems. Leasing software is the best options for a business, not only for bureaucracy, but liability also. It's much easier to pass the blame, and kick the lawsuits down the road.
Re:Office365 -- Windows365 (Score:4, Funny)
It's not too shocking right?
I'm in the market for a new kitchen table. Any ideas on where I can rent one for the next 20–30 years?
Re:Office365 -- Windows365 (Score:5, Informative)
It's not too shocking right?
I'm in the market for a new kitchen table. Any ideas on where I can rent one for the next 20–30 years?
I recommend getting the pro version, I got the home premium one first but it was too wobbly because they disable one leg.
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It's not too shocking right?
I'm in the market for a new kitchen table. Any ideas on where I can rent one for the next 20–30 years?
I recommend getting the pro version, I got the home premium one first but it was too wobbly because they disable one leg.
Nah, you need to get the 'Enterprise' version. The 'home' and 'pro' versions both have a giant advertisement painted on the facade.
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I I told you all this was coming last year and you laughed at me.
Mostly because you're a silly punce.
Re:Nope. (Score:4, Informative)
My use of Windows has decreased so much that I boot my Windows partition once a month or less. Very little I can't do on Linux Mint except maybe play some games, which frankly don't make it worth the effort to boot Windows and worry about stealth updates, telemetry, and all the rest. Subscription model? They'll never get a cent from me for subscriptions.