↳ In-reply-to » Microsoft might want to be making Windows 12 a subscription OS, suggests leak While this has been a hunch for a while among the Windows enthusiast community, a new leak seems to be further providing somewhat solidifying evidence that it could indeed be the case, that Microsoft’s next-gen OS, casually referred to as Windows 12, could be a subscription-based OS. I have no innate issue with the subscription model for software – especially in the mobile world ... ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net In that paragraph, I was comparing it to iOS devices because you cannot install another operating system on them. That is the point of Microsoft® Secure Boot after all.

Another thing about i{Pad,}OS, it’s impossible to use it without an online account with the operating system vendor. Windows, of course, is getting increasingly harder to use without a Microsoft account. The goal is clear.