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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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[-] HidingCat@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

They gotta be crazy to do this to consumer Windows, since it's been like, free for a lot of people now.

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[-] bappity@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I dare them to try

[-] IRQBreaker@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago
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[-] Kissaki@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

Windows 12? Did they ever explicitly revoke the "Windows 10 will be the last"?

I thought 11 was an exception die to the hardware requirements.

But I guess any big enough change can be a new reason for the next.

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[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

Too sad that there is not the Office suite for Linux because it's really powerful
(I do use Open and LibreOffice at work. Personally they are mostly worse in comparison.)

Besides that I don't have a high dependance except for games. And looking at my SteamDeck it's not a high dependency.
If Steam can solve the anticheat and maybe even releases SteamOS as a desktop distro it would be very tempting to switch if I can't get anything else than a subscription or a free key.

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[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Microsoft can suck the juices out of my ass and thank me for it.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

BWahahahahaaaaaa! Ahhhh shoot that’s funny.

That’s the most Microsoft thing ever.

[-] Uniquitous@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

Steamdeck ahoy, then. The only reason I have a Windows box at all is for gaming.

[-] Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

If your games are running on the Steam Deck, they should run on Linux just as well :)

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[-] Kepabar@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago

So there is already a thing with Windows 11 where you can, as part of a Microsoft 365 subscription, upgrade your Windows 11 machine from Pro to Enterprise.

The idea of having the base OS be a subscription is really just a stones throw away.

... but the Pro -> Ent activation process is really a PITA and often randomly PC's will revert back to Pro after they've been ugpraded, so I guess we'll have fun with that.

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