Microsoft reveals subscription pricing for using Windows 10 beyond 2025, and it's not cheap

That sucks. Wouldn't surprise me if they lower the price quite a bit before then due to complaints. That may have been the plan all along....announce $61/device knowing they will eventually drop it to something like $20/device and everyone will be happy that they aren't paying $61.
 
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cptlo said:
That sucks. Wouldn't surprise me if they lower the price quite a bit before then due to complaints. That may have been the plan all along....announce $61/device knowing they will eventually drop it to something like $20/month and everyone will be happy that they aren't paying $61.
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There was a mention later in the article that these prices were for commercial users, and that MS would be announcing pricing for personal users at a later date.

I have several very powerful computers that won't run Windows 11, they are still very good machines. I have read there's a registry hack that will allow machines that are technically not compatible with Windows 11 to run it. But I figured I would give that some time to see how it works out.
 
Software folks have been pushing to go all subscription for a while. Its coming.

I just find it humorous how it took years to move away from the "mainframe is good, you have to pay to access it" over to "personal computers are the best solution" and now we are back to "you have to pay us to use it"
 
MacDaddy said:
Software folks have been pushing to go all subscription for a while. Its coming.

I just find it humorous how it took years to move away from the "mainframe is good, you have to pay to access it" over to "personal computers are the best solution" and now we are back to "you have to pay us to use it"
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I see Windows losing market share in non-business applications if they go subscription. Lots of free alternatives out there that seem to be gaining traction. All the Lenux based OSs, and I've been reading about one called Atlas lately that seems to be based on Windows.

Now that I have a little more time and an abundance of computers; I'm gonna play around with some of the alternatives again. Last time I tried was years ago; I think it was Ubuntu and it was on a crappy old Windows 95 machine, so it wasn't great.
 
Guard Dad said:
I've been reading about one called Atlas lately that seems to be based on Windows.
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I'd never heard of it so just looked it up. It is basically just a way to streamline a Windows install so you'd still need a Windows license.

AtlasOS complies with the Windows EULA and does not modify Windows activation. To install AtlasOS, you must have Windows activated beforehand.
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Took an old HP I have with an AMD dual core and loaded Ubuntu on it, I'm posting from it now. Was a little buggy installing, but once it updated it seems to be working well.

I'm gonna play around with it and decide whether I want to use it on more computers. It comes with a lot fo stuff pre-loaded; Firefox and Chrome,Libre Office, etc. Of course, I installed a media player called Banshee and am loading music files on it now.

To keep from losing the Windows install, I just plugged in an old 980 GB SSD I had and left my other hard drive in there. If this wrks out, might even do a dual boot setup.
 
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