On: Windows 10 Tip: Turn Off File Explorer Advertising

[senectus1]

it gets worse.

In the enterprise space you used to buy "Software assurance" to make sure you were always licenced to have the latest version.

NOW, with Win10, Software assurance is the reverse. you have to PAY EXTRA to make sure that your win10 version DOESNT get new feature updates. To keep it at certain level. (ie prior to when they started pumping it full of adverts).

To me thats a stand-over tactic... "Nice OS you got there... it'd be a shame if something was to 'Appen to it..."

[Already__Taken → senectus1]

If you look at the XP legacy problem that makes sense these days. If you want MS to support your snowflake of a system then that costs money.

[eddieroger → Already__Taken]

Are you calling XP a snowflake? One of the most popular releases of Windows? There's nothing wrong with enterprises saying they wanted to stay on a version of Windows, just like there's nothing wrong with Microsoft saying they no longer want to support it, but that hardly makes XP a snowflake. Microsoft can certainly try to flip pricing to earn a profit, but they have to understand that it comes at the risk of alienating users.

[scott_karana → eddieroger]

At some point, they probably decided it's worth the payoff to alienate users who are using a desktop OS from 2001 ;-)

[_jcwu → senectus1]

Microsoft also changed the licensing for the server OS to per core rather than per CPU. Talk about milking the cow even more!

[flukus → senectus1]

In all fairness, with the modern state of security I think this is something enterprise will have to get used to.