bringing this back up because microsoft has now confirmed that Win10 is a subscription thing, basically microsoft has just lost in the OS race permanently, R.I.P microsoft: ~1990-2016
yes, $10 per month for microsoft 360, and required or else nothing on your computer works, microsoft is a dead company, bill gates ran it so much better
this has been debunked. Time and time again.Microsoft releases new license terms for Windows 10: Biggest surprise? No gotchas | ZDNet[DOUBLEPOST=1436992932][/DOUBLEPOST] Do you mean Office 365?
yes, which is requied to have a subscription for for your win10 system to work, you have anything else you want to say?
Office has always been a paid service. Microsoft makes horrible decisions, then corrects them. Look at the Xbox 1 .-.
it's a subscription service, and required to have in order for the O.S. to work... what the HECK does that sound like? a subscription O.S.
my father knows people inside microsoft, he heard it, not me, he's switching to unix once the support for win7/8 end, reading it is a good idea, and since he IS a programmer he knows what he is talking about
Well, seeing as how the recently released ToS says nothing about a fee, and Windows has NEVER required office to run, I'll believe it when I see it.
as @LucidTheStick said, it will be by microsoft's OFFICIAL announcement that it will be subscripition based, they will either pull another XBone or their going broke, cuz office 365, is required, and he has computers that USE the thing, so he reads it, he knows it
Actually, the worst part of the new license agreements is the update stuff. I mean, how many past windows updates were totally broken? And in any of those times, I'm quite happy about being able to simply not install them. I also hope that doesn't mean windows update can force-restart my computer whenever it wants.
As of right now Windows 10 will not be a "subscription". IF/WHEN they make it subscription it will be yearly (hence the 365 and the 'Windows 365' trademark they made official earlier this year). [If you upgrade within the first year of release (before July 28th of 2016), the following quote applies to you.] I will also quote a Dev for Microsoft, and an Executive VP for Windows in particular: "This is more than a one-time upgrade: once a Windows device is upgraded to Windows 10, we will continue to keep it current for the supported lifetime of the device – at no cost." [link] Chugga is and will always be a troll. Although I will say, after your device/free upgrade is done, I would expect it to be a subscription style OS at a cost around $50-$70 a year.
