Submitted 1 year ago by billiam0202@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.pcmag.com/news/windows-12-may-require-a-subscription
[A]n INI configuration file in the Windows Canary channel, discovered by German website Deskmodder, includes references to a “Subscription Edition,” “Subscription Type,” and a “subscription status.”
Hopefully this is just some business related version and not for standard consumers
Guess Microsoft is set on enshittifying itself to death like a sort of disgusting business dysentery.
Under capitalism a company is either growing or dying. Either the company is making their shareholders money or they get abandoned.
Microsoft has bleed as much money as they can from their customers under their current model. Only way to continue growing to survive is by taking even more money from their customers.
Due to having no long term strategy to grow their business by extending/improving their platform they’ve instead doubled down on their current model by charging extra money for value that isn’t there.
Enshitification is proof that companies like this have exceeded their ability to grow. Their only move now is further Enshitification, and further charging even more money for value that isn’t there because without that they will die.
We need to support true open hardware or less ACPI-WIndows first one. MS can do whatever they want with their OS BUT it should not mess with hardware.
I expected Framework to be a FOSS first laptop but eventually, it just became a wintel derivative.
IF there is going the be a subscription based windows version, it’s most likely going the be the cloud version of Windows 11
prosp3kt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
I hope so the Linux adoption can grow up