Microsoft might want to be making Windows 12 a subscription OS, suggests leak

Y'all remember when Windows 10 was supposedly their last OS?

now that gaming is getting better on Linux thanks to proton, I am unbothered

I look forward to welcoming all the new Linux users 🙂

as always, Microsoft is the biggest advertiser of Linux

And there's NeoWin again with the Windows 12 clickbaits. This "leak" is just Windows 11 IoT Enterprise Subscription, and there's absolutely nothing nowhere that even mentions the number 12.

https://twitter.com/XenoPanther/status/1710027423981388161

Y'all really need to actually click the article and read the first sentence. This has nothing to do with Windows 12, and even Neowin has clarified that right at the top in an update.

Microsoft is a bad company, but it's a little worrying when someone can just say some random things in a title and have it be believed without question, just because it paints Microsoft in a negative light.

They're too smart to do this ...

More likely they will make the base OS free and charge for the premium SaaS features ... like they already do with one drive, O365 and game pass

The year of the linux desktop is coming for real this time...!

Linux usage on pc jumps to 72%

Welcome to Linux, friends

I love when one of the richest companies on Earth (2nd by market cap, only behind Apple) just doesn't make enough money that they need to consider this bullshit. Fuck this infinite profit growth. This is so fucking stupid. Everything is a god damn subscription. Gotta wring out every penny from our customers as the good Lord intended.

90% of all techbro "innovation" is one or more of the following:

"Put it on the cloud!"

"Make it a subscription service!"

"Put it on the blockchain!"

"Add more surveillance!"

rip windows; thank you valve and proton

Cool, even more reason to stick with 10 as long as I can. Enshitify everything, who even cares anymore?

And you'll still hear "Well I know everything about Windows sucks and now I'm being charged out the ass, but I refuse to even consider switching because [one particular game doesn't work / I'm used to it]"

Will win 7 be the last ever usable OS from Microsoft, or will Windows 13 turn out decent? Only time will tell.

Personally, the only reason I don't fully switch to Linux is because of the Adobe Suite, but other than that, I would absolutely make the switch. I'm hoping that if this promopts enough people to make the switch, then Adobe will finally make versions of their Programs for Linux.

didn't they say windows 10 was going to be the last version of windows? hence why they jumped to the number 10 as it's nice and round.

Nice! I've always wanted to try out Linux.

Yeah, please do that. It will be great!

Valve moves SteamOS to the desktop... The only trick would be getting corporate buy in.

I just can't see people standing for ads in their os at best and paying a continual fee at worst.

Remember the rumors over 10 years ago that Windows 8 was going to be a subscription OS?

So is business moving to M365 windows lics no doubt. It's been on the cards for a while.

“Might want to be making…”

Weird ass attempt at future perfect tense?

Seems like an odd direction when a lot services are moving online and to SaaS based solutions, removing the dependency of a specific underlying OS.

This is what happens when one part of their business (Game Pass) does well and they want to translate that success to other operations. What they don’t realize is that Windows is less a product and more a service, and you can’t make money on services. Not for long, anyway.

gonna be great when you can't afford to pay this month and you lose access to your computer

And they'll still steal all your data and spy on everything you do!

It’s a good idea, so the pain will end and it will die one and for all

Since when has windows 11 been deprecated? After windows 7 I switched to Linux and all I hear is new windows is around the corner and even worse! How does this company even keep customers, when all they do is upgrade their windows?!

They definitely want to, this news "leak" is meant to determine if they will.

I've been enjoying Windows 10 with some of the shite stripped out and will probably be sticking to that for the foreseeable future. Still, cringe.

Anyone got any good reccs for Linux? Preferably something that plays nicely with both laptop and desktop.

they've been wanting to do a subscription windows since they did some limited testing of the concept back with win7.

OSAAS, Nope #RUNBSD

Corporations are the economic version of cancer

Seems possible enough to me, considering what they've done with pretty much everything else

I'd rather subscribe to windows than troubleshooting linux