This is exactly why i despise Microsoft so much. They have always tried to destroy it’s competition. Back in the day they used tactics and unfair practices and it hasn’t changed much. When they have the $$ and most of the control it’s bad news for the consumer. I think their cloud initiative has a purpose but then again i cringe. Who controls the data? I also do not want to pay a subscription fee and then pay tax on the service when i can buy up front and pay tax only once on the cost. It’s definitely a no for me. Not interested in the slightest! open source is best
Cloud life ain’t happening in my home. My employer can give me whatever they want me to use there, but I’ll just build my own/use my good old fashion stuff.
If they go to pathetic computers that are basically links to other real computers, my Legion should be good for a very long time coming.
What I think is M$ is trying to kill Windows instead. They’ll see what happens to Azure. I don’t know that well but they’re trying to get together with the authors of Fedora and Ubuntu such as making “dot-NET” more widely available. It might also have to do with how Wine progresses, it’s getting seriously complex just emulating 32-bit functionality, but what about the junk added in 2017 and later?
I might be wrong but those from M$ had said Windows10 was going to be the “last version of Windows.” But now look, Windows12 due in 2024? Why not next year like many people expected?
I understand why more companies are going Internet subscription only. Because they are greedy and they must keep it going in the only way they know. Because if the user wants anything more, he/she would have to pay for it. Including “fix bugs.” Human-run customer support is illusory. How many jokes there are on Internet about computer user’s issues being resolved?
Linux has come a long way in the entire near-30-year existence of Slackware. How would it be 30 years from now? Even five years from today? There’s talk about removing all 32-bit support once and for all (“multilib” is a mess, I have read a developer complain), and about cutting off whoever dares to create a distro for “old slow” systems belonging to “e-waste”. Free and open source software cannot be avoided but at least the corporate plotters could try to limit what is available for somebody to compile without “license”.
