Purchasable products don't make as much money. That's all there is to it. Quality held constant a product charging a regular fee will earn more over the long run.
There are also additional benefits to a company going down this route as it allows products to be disabled when they stop being profitable, have planned obsolesce built in, allows them to upgrade you to a newer service at a higher subscription fee, it allows them to sell you a licence as opposed to ownership, removes all right to repair and gives them total, complete control of their intellectual property whilst implementing fear of missing out (FOMO) to anyone who either drops their subscription or isn't subscribed.
Subscription models are the literal implementation of "you will own nothing and you will be happy".
The next version of Windows is looking likely as if it will be adopting the Microsoft 365 "as a service", enshittification model. Which is why people are looking into Linux as an alternative. As are video games - World of Warcraft trialled the idea, if GTA VI adopts a live subscription model and gets away with it, all bets are off.
Which is probably why they gave away upgrading Windows 10 and 11 for free. They make their money from upselling "affordable" Microsoft 365 access to productivity products people need for work (Word, Excel, Powerpoint). If Microsoft can get people paying a subscription fee for Windows and 365, double win for them. Would also likely have an effect on piracy as the authentication servers and some critical files would be on servers at Microsoft so would herald a whack-a-mole game between pirates and Microsoft akin to what we seen with Denuvo.
They even have express services to port your Skype services over to them, some of which are done at no extra charge. Microsoft is basically handing their competitors free users.
Teams is absolute dog shite. Their DEI programmers focused more on idiotic features than the actual functioning of the video conference part. e.g. extremely high CPU and resource usage, inefficient video and audio codecs etc.
Seeing how no-one really cares about Skype and Teams is widely used in all offices, makes sense product wise.
However, just as I hate Google that YOU are the product for all their software, I hate how EVERYTHING is a subscription with Microsoft.
Everything is a subscription because Microsoft no longer makes products worth purchasing. Change my mind.
Purchasable products don't make as much money. That's all there is to it. Quality held constant a product charging a regular fee will earn more over the long run.
There are also additional benefits to a company going down this route as it allows products to be disabled when they stop being profitable, have planned obsolesce built in, allows them to upgrade you to a newer service at a higher subscription fee, it allows them to sell you a licence as opposed to ownership, removes all right to repair and gives them total, complete control of their intellectual property whilst implementing fear of missing out (FOMO) to anyone who either drops their subscription or isn't subscribed.
Subscription models are the literal implementation of "you will own nothing and you will be happy".
The next version of Windows is looking likely as if it will be adopting the Microsoft 365 "as a service", enshittification model. Which is why people are looking into Linux as an alternative. As are video games - World of Warcraft trialled the idea, if GTA VI adopts a live subscription model and gets away with it, all bets are off.
No need to change your mind. Mark my words, one of these days windows will be a sub only too. Not yet but in the future.
I'll probably end up paying the same amount for windows then as I do now...
They don't really give a shit about consumers pirating because enterprise is where they make all of their licensing money.
Which is probably why they gave away upgrading Windows 10 and 11 for free. They make their money from upselling "affordable" Microsoft 365 access to productivity products people need for work (Word, Excel, Powerpoint). If Microsoft can get people paying a subscription fee for Windows and 365, double win for them. Would also likely have an effect on piracy as the authentication servers and some critical files would be on servers at Microsoft so would herald a whack-a-mole game between pirates and Microsoft akin to what we seen with Denuvo.
The pajeet in charge is doing his job
You can still buy non-subscription versions of office (I do)
Skype was great until Microsoft bought them out and made the UI far more confusing.
It was sabotage.
Fuck Skype. Fuck Teams. Fuck Microsoft.
Zoom must be happy, their primary competitor was just taken out back and put down....
They even have express services to port your Skype services over to them, some of which are done at no extra charge. Microsoft is basically handing their competitors free users.
>kill msn messenger which was a simple program that just worked in favor of a bloated mess that ran like shit
>wanna see me do it again?
Skype used to be so awesome. Then Microsoft bought it.
"Embrace, Extend and Extinguish". It's the Microsoft way.
Teams is absolute dog shite. Their DEI programmers focused more on idiotic features than the actual functioning of the video conference part. e.g. extremely high CPU and resource usage, inefficient video and audio codecs etc.
Oh great. After continuously making it worse, they are now killing it.
Good, Teams is actually somewhat useful.