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Windows 12 May Require a Subscription (www.pcmag.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[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."

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Yup, Chromebooks are already cheap and pretty intuitive, I think this will bump their sales a lot. I've ditched windows long ago except for my gaming PC and the PCs at my office (I don't have a say in those though, I just much prefer Linux

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Yup, Chromebooks are already cheap and pretty intuitive, I think this will bump their sales a lot.

Won't matter to Microsoft at all. You'll use your Chromebook to connect your Windows 365 Cloud PC . They'll add it to the Microsoft Family Plan, same one that has MS Office in it, for free when its introduced and then slowly raise the price as people get embedded into it.

Gaming? You'll buy the WinBook Ultra that can handle streaming gaming or buy an Xbox.

Welcome to the future, it'll be here in 10 years or less.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Chromebooks generally encourage you to use Google's family of office apps. So I don't know about that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

It'll be a legal battle where MS will claim Google's closed ecosystem as a monopoly and force them to carry the "MS Cloud PC App" in the Play Store. Or you'll just go buy a "WinBook" made by HP, Dell, Lenovo, etc...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

And tablets, which most people seem to be using these days.