Lmao!

I would happily subscribe to an operating system for a fair price, as long as it's stable, compatible, has timely security updates and - and I highly doubt MS will do this one - without any bloat-, nag- or crapware. Make your default browser a browser, not a spying shopping coupon Bing AI mess. Let me choose the search engine the start menu uses (or use none at all), stop telling me to sign into OneDrive every chance you get, fuck off with your widgets, etc.

If I pay, you have no business trying to fuck me over, Microsoft.

Ahoy Mateys 🏴‍☠️

Microsoft would be as stupid as your typical League of Legends player for going down that route. Doing this would be an own-goal and would give Linux market share instantly.

I'll just use the pirated versions with the malware ripped off of it, thank you. Tiny11 is a beauty to run already.

I hardly think MS is going this route. It maybe for AI stuff they are pushing in the OS and not the OS itself

BWahahahahaaaaaa! Ahhhh shoot that’s funny.

That’s the most Microsoft thing ever.

Good thing that not one OS is Windows in our household and workshop.

There is literally no advantage in using Windows anymore for us.

Ok and I'll just crack it like I do with every other windows version.

Once I paid $250 for Windows pro and a month later my licence key stopped working, and Microsoft didn't do shit.

I even bought it directly from them!

Never paid money for Windows since.