>>A lot of people who remember the old days when packaged/pay once software was the only game in town are viscerally opposed to the subscription model. I'm not, as long as I get recurring value-added as well as recurring costs. But that's more difficult to evaluate in a subscription model. There's the danger that MS will make no significant improvements at all, and simply say using Windows as-is is worth $XX per renewal, if you don't like it use something else. But you can be sure they'll put full effort into locking users into the platform.
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>I'd prefer a pay-as-you-go, where a gigabyte of content would be between one cent and one dollar - and for video that would include the 'pick your rez' option, so if I think it's unworthy crap I'd go with just VGA :). And they'd be surprised at how much one can be creative with the FF button or whatever they call that slider now.
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>Or SAAS, where the fee would cover the features used... That would seriously reduce bloatware.

What happened to Windows 9?

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