It is the way large s/w places are koving. They want a perpetual revenue model for things already paid for, how they can eek out more and force customers to continue to pay for an already purchased product. As well as forced upgrades whether desired or not.
Its been a longtime goal for the industry. Since not much blowback is occuring other companies are taking note people will accept it.
[[They want a perpetual revenue model for things already paid for, how they can eek out more and force customers to continue to pay for an already purchased product. ]]
Yup that’s exactly what Adobe photoshop did- force people into lifetime monthly payments
[[Since not much blowback is occurring other companies are taking note people will accept it.]]
The problem is that because people have no choice but to upgrade really, they count this as ‘approval’ because the people aren’t taking up arms to resist- this is exactly how Adobe portrayed the whole situation “Well people are not complain much, therefore they must like it” Basically
[[I thought on unix machines they would set up and run a virtual windows box and it runs fine in there.]]
The problem though is that windows 10 is a massive spyware operating system now- and even in a virtual box, it is phoning home to MS while being used, and from what I understand, there’s no way to effectively turn off the spyware completely- you can turn some off, others you can’t, and even if you could, forced automatic updates will likely keep changing your preferences on you-