In Windows 10, Ad-Free Solitaire Will Cost You $10 -- Every Year

Wired UK reports that the pre-installed Solitaire on Windows 10 capitalizes on the long-cultivated addiction that some users have to the game with an interesting bargain: rather than being an ordinary included application like it used to be, what may be the world's most pervasive on-screen office time-sink of a game now comes with ads, unless a user wants to pay (by the month, or by the year) to remove those ads. Notes the linked piece: "To be entirely fair, this is the same as on the Windows 8 version, which wasn't installed by default but could be downloaded from the Windows Store."

At $1.49/month or $10/year, this might be enough to drive some people who otherwise would not to check out some of the free, open-source games out there; PySolitaire is one of many in this incomplete list.

Comments

Re:... no one is paying for that

[cfalcon]

Take your hexedit, strike Windows down with all of your hatred, and your journey towards Linux will be complete...

Windows Solitaire??

[Anonymous Coward]

Well, I've always said it was the only decent software Microsoft ever wrote...

Re:They're going to be charging money for the OS s

[rhodium_mir]

I don't use any software that I haven't reviewed the source code line by line. I've almost made it through Lynx but until then I'm simply using wget and reading the HTML as bare text.