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Microsoft: Subscriptions or be afraid, be very afraid
  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    Same as Adobe, Microsoft almost removed any mentions of Office 2019 from related site pages. Also they cut standalone Office as much as they could and moved almost all developers from it to their new fancy cloud services with huge margins.

    Internal corporation plans is to move to subscription only model for all except big business and government (they will be still allowed to use standalone versions).

    Series of price hikes will follow soon.

    It is very interesting to see how nature of capitalism stick here, even such means of production, even with such much license restrictions must be moved further from ownership and towards being provided for lease to workers or small businesses.

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  • kinvermarkkinvermark

    Software rental, cellphone rental, car payments, debt financing.... all methods of increasing price to make more money while providing no more value.

    Problem is the cost of living in western cities is now so expensive you have to run like a hamster in a cage just to stay alive.

  • endotoxicendotoxic

    Aaaahhhh .The Smell of capitalism on the morning.

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    So, already first price hike for poor subscribers.

    Microsoft send notices for Office 365 Personal subscribers that they need to expect price hike since October 18th. In some countries hikes will be 30% in others it is different numbers.

  • robertGLrobertGL

    @Vitaliy_Kiselev well at least it's not a tax.. not yet anyway

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    Did you build your e-book library through the Microsoft Store? You'll need to make a change in plans. Microsoft has not only removed books from its online portal, but plans to remove access to existing purchases and rentals in early July. It's not a complete loss when Microsoft plans to offer refunds in the form of store credit, including $25 extra if you've made annotations before April 2nd.

    Can do fun thing - try to read your EULA. Some guys recently got official answer that EULA allows to declare you criminal if you restrict spy information that Windows is sending to Microsoft, as you explicitly allow such activity by accepting it.

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