MSFT now has its own line of devices like Apple and is now offering its OS like Google does, and therefore it is trying to take the best both worldsĪs far as the OS goes it really doesn't change a whole lot. In other words you won't be paying a yearly subscription fee for the OS. It's not about subscription type licensing like Office 365. Google gets revenues from its ads and search as well as the other services it provides and not by selling the OS. MSFT determined that revenue from consumer licenses was dropping, so why not make up for that another way. It also has been mentioned that it is for generating revenue based on searches and ads instead of relying on license sales. Kind of like what professional race cars do. Allowing them better data on what's going on under the hood. Which allows them to provide updates based on telemetry and user feedback they receive. Meaning that the OS developers will start using similar processes as the Bing, Skype, and Yammer teams.

Windows as a Service seems focused internally and not externally. I read them, and until recently nobody really knew what that meant.

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