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

• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That sounds lame, what are the benefits of this?

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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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      • LucidBoi@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I get it now. It does sound reasonable. I just have an aversion to having to make repeated payments.

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