With DaaS Windows coming, say goodbye to your PC as you know it ..
For over 30 years, we’ve thought of PCs primarily as Windows
machines, which we owned and controlled. That’s about to change forever.
This isn’t about Microsoft forcing us off Windows 7 to Windows 10 as
fast as it can (though it has found many ways to push that agenda).
This is about Microsoft abandoning the Windows platform as a
conventional desktop.
[ Related: Windows 7 to Windows 10 migration guide ]
Microsoft is getting ready to replace Windows 10 with the Microsoft Managed Desktop. This will be a “desktop-as-a-service” (DaaS) offering. Instead of owning Windows, you’ll “rent” it by the month.
WELP! Time to make Linux mainstream!
Welp, I still got around 5 1/2 years of security left on 8.1... plenty of time to learn about the soon-to-be-superior Operating System Linux.
Good fucking job Microsoft, great way to rip off everyone that's used your OS for 30 years. If Linux has any hope of becoming mainstream at all in the desktop space, someone needs to come forward and design a somewhat competent OS that's compatible with Windows shit
Yeah.. no thanks. I'll pass on that horrid idea thanks though.
I dunno, it only makes sense to me that they would move to DaaS and they've been moving in that direction for a while.
While windows updates do cause issues, they're there for a very good purpose - to push security and quality updates for not only windows, but supporting frameworks (.NET, office).
Fragmenting your userbase by 4-year "editions" is a horrible idea for long term support, and any device that sits offline for years without an update plan probably shouldn't be running consumer windows anyway.
It takes time and money to keep developers warm and happy and servers cold and happy, and it takes more to service 5 completely different environments than 1 rolling environment.
Legacy support won't change much, things will stop being supported either way so you'd have to take apps offline and virtualize them.
Except I can't afford more monthly payments, just like how I gave up on trying to afford Photoshop until it went sub and stuck with GIMP. That leaves me with only two options: Stick with W10 until stuff stops being supported and then go to Linux, or just go to Linux. Going to Linux is not a good solution due to it immediately making all games I have unworkable if it's anything beyond Dx10 due to how fucky WINE is.
Realistically speaking, if win10 (or 11) would ever hit up subscription billing, they couldn't charge all that much for it - because people would just use the older version of working Windows and market share would stall.
O365, for example, is something Microsoft has a monopoly in (office compatibility) but costs $100/yr for up to 5 people on a single license, including 5 x 1tb of cloud storage.
The regular version of photoshop is pretty much purely intended as a professional product and inanely expensive like a lot of enterprise software, so it's not really a direct comparison.
Things are slowly improving with DXVK being a thing:
https://youtu.be/wGX_csvvuns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Eh7zIrl8bw
YMMV, but there are many games working really well on Linux right now, and many more to come.
Better article with less fearmongering
https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsofts-got-a-new-plan-for-managing-windows-10-devices-for-a-monthly-fee/
Seems to be enterprise only, at least for now. Either way Linux will never be an option for me since I want to play all the new games the moment they come out, not when WINE devs get them (barely) working
Yeah, this same article blew up on Slashdot earlier, lots of people smugly boasting they were right about W10 being a trojan and that everyone would be installing Linux*, before someone actually read the article and noted it was an opinion piece. Then someone found an actual proper article and realized they're just tweaking the existing DaaS enterprise program, and there's no known plans to change anything on the consumer or professional side.
Hopefully this doesn't go the worse of the two possible paths, but if this does eventually hit consumer branch I'll finally have a use for my linux skills.
Either way, as much as this doesn't affect me personally (yet) I've never liked the idea of having to pay monthly for something constantly. I understand why, but I prefer the expensive one time payment over the monthly option, only because it gives me more personal power over what I do with the software.
there's a few reasons as to why people like it
businesses: there's a continued line item which justifies paying it rather than making one PO a year for all your licenses and then forgetting or "do we need to actually pay for this years software etc"
personal: rather than paying a thousand dollars a year for CS6/7/8/9, you just pay the 80 bucks a month, figure it as one freelance work and the rest is gravy (well gravy in the sense that you've already paid for your tools)
Adobe Suite is only $20/month IIRC so it's actually pretty darn reasonable
never paying for my OS tho lol
So if I understand this correctly, it's just an enterprise only feature where the company doesn't manage the computers fully and is instead provisioned by Microsoft themselves?
it's basically chromebook style management for windows devices and tbh i'm here for it
This article is awful and gives zero primary details.
At the time it was the best I could find, there is a far better thread here.
Don't have to be so aggressive though. Just makes me want to go back to lurking instead of actively participating...
You have a cute avatar background, so please continue posting.
Long live Linux & Hackintoshs.
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