rudy
[H]F Junkie
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lol, you guys a huge number of people don't even know what version of Windows they are running. My question to my sister the other day was, is your start menu a circle or a square, that's how I found out what version of windows she was running. Consumers do not give a rip when Windows support will end in 10 years, they don't even think ahead 1 year. Windows XP was delayed how many times and people still didn't move. People here make a giant deal out of junk the average consumer could not care less about. All they care about is does the device in front of them do what they want, supposing they even know what they want it to do..... The same exact logic applies to Android all this arguing about fragmentation etc.... good grief the largest selling Android maker is the one most consider to be the worst for updates and fragmentation.
Right now there is no consumer precedent for subscription based OS. And MS has had plenty of success with office 365, personally, if the price was right I would love a subscription based OS. I love office 365 the price is right when you can put it on 5 computers. But I can see how a single person would take issue with $70 / year. The biggest thing missing from subscriptions is the price. MS needs to look honestly at how much money they make off of windows per person and divide it up and roll out a subscription based on that. When you consider OEM Windows sale price, how infrequently people upgrade and all that I suspect Windows isn't worth more than $10 / year. Which IMO means they should just throw it into office 365 as a value added feature. That said I think just like office MS should make it available as a purchase as well. But so far MS has not tried and doesnt look like they will any time soon certainly not while Apple is still looming with the possibility of taking market share and google keeps poking with chromebooks.
Right now there is no consumer precedent for subscription based OS. And MS has had plenty of success with office 365, personally, if the price was right I would love a subscription based OS. I love office 365 the price is right when you can put it on 5 computers. But I can see how a single person would take issue with $70 / year. The biggest thing missing from subscriptions is the price. MS needs to look honestly at how much money they make off of windows per person and divide it up and roll out a subscription based on that. When you consider OEM Windows sale price, how infrequently people upgrade and all that I suspect Windows isn't worth more than $10 / year. Which IMO means they should just throw it into office 365 as a value added feature. That said I think just like office MS should make it available as a purchase as well. But so far MS has not tried and doesnt look like they will any time soon certainly not while Apple is still looming with the possibility of taking market share and google keeps poking with chromebooks.