Comment on Xbox as a platform is officially dead
64bithero@lemmy.world 18 hours agoMicrosoft has no interest in scaling back windows especially for the sake of user experience. The want Ai in your face they want ads for you to upgrade to office 365.
So while they could do all of this even with a modified version of Windows 11 , they won’t.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 hours ago
I mean, I would argue that having to pay for access to different parts of Windows, like say access to PowerShell or access to more advanced features and settings has been part of the way they make money for a long time. That’s why their used to be “Home,” “Pro,” and “Enterprise” versions all with various levels of capability. So while it looks like the original article has been debunked, I would think that offering stripped-down versions of Windows would just serve as a way to push upgrades to more full featured versions the same way they press you to upgrade to Office 365.
64bithero@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
They can gate it , and still have you install it. Doesn’t mean they have to modulate it out. If sub === home disable things
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 hours ago
For sure, but that always gives advanced users the option to ungate it through the registry. The benefit to them of having it be “modular” would to be able to completely restrict even power users from being able to free their OS to use how they actually want to.