- Microsoft recently threw a lifeline to consumers, offering alternatives to paying $30 for extended support for Windows 10
- Public Interest Research Group thinks this doesn’t go far enough in terms of avoiding an impending e-waste calamity
- The organization suggests Microsoft considers providing longer-term support for Windows 10, or relaxes the spec requirements for Windows 11
$30 a year to start. If they are that enough people are willing to pay it, it will inevitability go up. Imagine paying $10-20 a month to use your operating system lol
Around 25 years ago, my hardware guy and I read a roadmap from microsoft. The bottom line was, they wanted to move back to a thin client model. They told everyone what they were going to do. You don’t have to imagine, they told everyone 25 years ago that this is what is coming. You will be paying monthly.
I remember this too, but can’t seem to find it.
It was called the October document, Halloween document, or something like that.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_documents
You don’t have to imagine! It’s already an option!
Why did you jump from $30/year to $120-$240 a year? You seriously think Microsoft would just randomly quadruple (at least) the cost?
You seriously think they wouldn’t, if they thought they could get away with it?
There is no world where the retail cost of a software product was literally quadrupled based purely on demand, lol.
Accept that it was a ridiculous exaggeration on your part.
The funniest part of this is that it’s already ridiculous at the lowest end of the range you gave, but you went up to $240/year. “Oh yeah, if lots of people buy it, we’ll just 8x the price, surely that won’t torpedo the sales numbers”.
You should check usernames before replying.