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[–] rockandsock@lemmy.world 50 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

So they're going to try to get everyone to buy new hardware when there is a shortage of ram and storage and they are ridiculously overpriced.

The timing of this couldn't be worse.

Pass the popcorn.

[–] thorhop@sopuli.xyz 1 point 6 hours ago

It's probably apart of their internal strategy.

"Look, the consumer doesn't want to buy hardware anymore... so let's make Windows a cloud OS only! Subscription model and all! They'll love that!"

Foreshadowing: we will hate it and either buy Macs or use Linux.

[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 18 points 15 hours ago (1 child)

"Don't worry about that, you can just run it in the cloud for an eternal subscription" - Microslop.

[–] rockandsock@lemmy.world 5 points 15 hours ago

Or just spend a couple of months of growing pains slowly switching everything over to Linux and spend all that cash on something fun.

[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 3 points 13 hours ago

Real men of genius