Comment on Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining

iliketurtles@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• yamanii@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It did though, you aren’t paying for 11.

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  • uienia@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Just paying for a whole new computer required for compability with 11.

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  • iliketurtles@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Fair enough. It just was funny to me that they were so adamant about it when windows 10 launched.

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  • Llewellyn@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You cheeky bastard

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• ArdMacha@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Apple moved from X to 11 and onwards

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  • bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And the latest macOS has pretty much the same user experience as the original OS X, just with added features and whatnot. They didn’t do a massive overhaul like Windows does every release.

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• LucidBoi@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What’s an OS as a service model?

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You pay a subscription for support, kind of like with RedHat or SUSE. Or with Office 365, if you want something more consumer-oriented.

    There wouldn’t be major releases of the OS, just continual improvements as long as you keep paying. So instead of paying $100-150 every 5 years or whatever, you’d pay $20-50 every year.

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    • LucidBoi@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That sounds lame, what are the benefits of this?

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      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        For who?

        For the user, generally smaller changes and staying up-to-date. It’s why I use a rolling-release Linux distro (openSUSE Tumbleweed) instead of a release-based distro, I don’t like big changes and I like staying up-to-date. I think Windows 10 users were excited to have something similar, where they get the same UX, but with improvements coming in a steady stream instead of periodic major releases.

        For the company, a more steady income stream. That’s part of why big, online games like Apex Legends are so popular for big gaming companies, getting a steady income stream is preferable to a bunch of money every game release with nothing between launches. In fact, my company is selling off part of the business because it’s too variable (profitability is based on commodity prices) and focusing on the segments of the business that are more consistent. I’ve heard we’d rather have lower average profit margins than highly variable profit margins.

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• exocortex@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Apparently Microsoft didn’t get the memo :-)

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